Shadows of change -Uummannaq ,Greenland -10/21 /09 Stanley Greene (C)NOOR Images- 2009

Uummannaq Dumping Ground –

Standing over the cliffs looking at the ice bergs , one can see the results of our modern day throw away society , discarded junk , computers , dish washers , washing machines , televisions , stereos , office supplies , toilets , trucks , cars , tires …..Junk, the past , present colliding into the future , This junk comes from the west , western and Eastern Europe and Asia, big cargo ships are bringing it also vie currents in the Ocean it ends up in Greenland ,The World is poisoning Greenland but will not allow them to sell their natural products , such as seal skins in and open market , The European union has placed a ban on the selling of seal and polar bear ,which is the food that Greenlanders eat and survive on they want them to eat junk food such as McDonalds ,which comes from one of the biggest polluters in the World , the USA . The question is simple , society in its mad drive in the so call interest of modernization , we are polluting the Earth , with no care to the future and the next generation that will inherit the Earth ,we have this lets live for today attitude , get rich and grow fat , being comfortable and losing the moral compass , and in the process destroying the World .