¶ … Wasteland
In the documentary film The Wasteland, researchers traced the dangers of environmental damage caused by human beings. It further explores a modern artist named Vik Muniz who works in South America taking materials which have been thrown away and turning them into pieces of art. For two years, Muniz looked and scavenged at Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill. He takes the trash and repurposes it, covering the trash pickers and making them into living works of art. Muniz uses garbage to create mosaic portraits which have been sold at auction and hung at museums around the world. His work is an example of what can be taken and recreated from all the material that humans throw away. More than this, the artwork illustrates exactly how people have thought about waste and garbage in the past, or more specifically how these things have not been taken into consideration.
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Even though this city is in South America, the United States has contributed heavily to the
pollution and
environmental issues of Brazil. One of the reasons that the nation is not able to overcome its pollution is due to massive deforestation. The American lumber and timber companies have aided in the logging of large areas of rain forest, severely damaging the
environment for the next decades and centuries to come. One of the best ways Brazil has to make money is by selling off logging rights. By creating a demand at such a high price, the country…
