Gallery: Sublime Yet Troubling Aerial Photos of Humanity's Environmental Destruction

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    Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska
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    Tailing Ponds from Alcoa Aluminum Plant, Texas
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    Melting Glaciers, Iceland
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    Melting Glaciers, Iceland
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    Grand Banks, Bahamas
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    Soda Processing, Lake Magadi, Kenya
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    Soda Processing, Lake Magadi, Kenya
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    Grand Banks, Bahamas
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    Mountain Top Removal, West Virginia
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    Tailing Ponds, Tar Sands, Alberta, Canada
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    Tailing Ponds, Tar Sands, Alberta, Canada
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