Streams of sunlight pierce the limbs of a mature rainforest canopy. Some trees are over three thousand years old.

12 square km (40 square miles) of rainforest is lost to deforestation in twenty four hours. 

If I walk as quickly as I can, continuously and without a break, it would take me over six hours to cover the outer boundary of this daily destruction. 

After one week 450 square km (280 square miles) is gone. Within 6 months the equivalent area of a major human city has been levelled. Humans so easily ignore the catastrophic scale of their ruin.

. . .

Stand tall as the sound of chain and choke draws near

I have lived since the time of the pharaohs.

. . .

ORIGINATOR · Mike de Sousa

ART FORM · Environmental Art

COMPLETED · 2026

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