When you're caught up in the thrill of progress, sometimes you can forget to tread lightly, and you can end up making some serious mistakes.
That's what humanity as a whole has basically been doing with regards to the environment for the past 150 years, and now, more and more people are looking to make things right.
But first, you have to make people aware. That's what designer Surachai Puthikulangkura is aiming for with a startling, troubling series of posters depicting the destruction of habitats — and the consequences.
We've seen how animal and landscape forms can create beautiful, soothing images when layered on top of one another thanks to one designer's double-exposure images of animals and their natural habitats, but Surachai is taking a slightly different approach, one that alarms rather than soothes.
The animals in Surchai's series come from different areas of the globe — a rainforest, a pine woodland, and a tundra — and their homes are all being destroyed by irresponsible human actions.
Created for German environmental organization Robin Wood, these posters are a stark reminder that our actions have wide-reaching effects, but also that we have the power to do good.
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The posters show a landscape being devastated in one form or another, all within the silhouette of an easily recognizable animal from that ecosystem. This monkey, for example, encompasses a jungle.
The landscapes are rendered digitally and in incredible detail, showing each aspect of the destruction.
And because they show various animals of the world, they show that this destruction and loss of life can — and does — happen everywhere.
Surachai and Robin Wood point to human activity as the main culprit, citing irresponsible business and industrial acts as leading to destruction.
The main environmental dangers tackled by these posters are deforestation, forest fires, and ice cap melting.
The images are dramatic and terrifying, but then, so is environmental destruction.
Robin Wood hopes that by seeing these images, people will remember that our planet is fragile, and hopefully make positive changes to their lifestyles in order to keep our home safe and healthy.
