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One of the things about our globalized world is that the realities of economic activities are not close to the places of consumption. It’s clear to me that if we simply had more information about the costs of our actions, more people would be concerned about nature.

This series of photographs from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada is pretty amazing. The scale of the operations is absolutely staggering.

Canadian Oil Sands Flyover

The size of the truck in the picture is 50 feet long. The lake on the left is waste water being skimmed for chemicals.