Asian Geographic2017

The Elephant

in the Room

CARE

What does the effect of over 7 billion people do to a little blue

and green planet? OVER – a photo montage of the Earth as

transformed by human numbers and behaviour, part of a larger

campaign called Global Population Speak Out – was the answer

The effects of human overpopulation

• in pictures

Te x t

Alex Campbell

Photos

Courtesy of Speak Out

A shepherd by the Yellow
River cannot stand the smell
in Inner Mongolia, China