Once You Look At These 7 Satellite Photos, You Will Discover A Very Uncomfortable Truth

What do you get when you collect 27 years’ worth of satellite pictures and turn them into GIFs? The scary realization that we can drastically change the face of the earth in some years and not even realize it.

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Andrea Garcia-Vargas

Aug 15, 2014

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Once You Look At These 7 Satellite Photos, You Will Discover A Very Uncomfortable Truth

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