Seen below is a only a minuscule portion of a mountain or car tires. These car tires resemble the increasing human demand for natural resources. Of course, rubber for tires are not the only resources we demand as various different types of metal such as iron, nickel, or silver and fossil fuels are far further up on the list of assets we take. Nevertheless, this seemingly endless pile of recycled tire shows the extreme amount of rubber (resources in general) we exhaust. These tires will either be turned to waste which will in turn pollute the landscape, or recycled, which would require large amounts of energy to do so. Either way, even thrown away tires can seriously damage our environment.
The picture below is a city in China. China, as one of the most rapidly developing countries, has an exploding population. This expanding city shows our growing population and the increasing importance of city that comes with it. More and more people will begin to move to urban areas. Thus, the picture reflects one of the global force: demography. Demography is the ups, downs, and movements of population groups. Demographic measures include birth rates, death rates, etc. and the booming population world wide is also a major demographic study. It is predicted by 2050 there will be 9.3 billion people on Earth, most of them from Asia and Africa.
The two pictures below show the effects of our industrialization on Earth and its effect for the climate. Ever since the late-1800s, people began to surmise that the Earth was far too warm based on its distance to the sun. Today, atmospheric levels are reaching the levels they were 85 million years ago when the ocean's were acidic, the temperatures were much higher, and the polar ice caps melted. The picture on the left shows a city bordering the polar region and the emission of carbon dioxide with factory production. The picture on the right, surprisingly isn't lava, it is instead, the result of the production and processing of metals such as nickel and also some alloys, creating a river of destructing pollutants.