Idea for The Power of Photography Project

After researching different PSAs I've fallen more passionate about ones that talk about how human development is hurting the environment and causing habitat loss. The way I plan on persuading my audience is starting off with some happy and bright videos of landscape and running water and slowly turning into deforestation and machinery.

The problem I see is that as the years go on we still continue to grow as a population and grow our impact on the environment by building more and more complexes, suburbs and extending our roads. It seems to me as if we are starting to care more and less about the environment around us. We keep cutting down trees, clearing out land for us to build on. Little do we know how this is going to affect us in the long run if we don't slow down our rate.

Back in the 17th century we when first came over to North America in order to flee Great Britians power, the land around us was full of lush forests. But fast forward to 2018 where the population increased from 2.5 million people living in the United States’ original 13 States in 1776 to 326,023,931 people living in the United States' 50 states. With this increase, there has been a huge increase in the amount of pressure put on the agricultural sector. The need for food is so large that natural habitats have been mowed down in order to create agricultural lands. Thus creating deforestation causing animals to lose their homes and starting to get mixed with rural areas where they are not fit to live. 

Works Cited
Blanc, Ross. “How Does Population Growth Affects the Environment Sustainability?” Environmental Sustainability, wordpress.clarku.edu/id125-envsus/2017/04/07/how-does-population-growth-affects-the-environment-sustainability/.
Chase. “Overflow Data.” Overflow Solutions, overflow.solutions/demographic-data/what-was-the-population-of-the-us-in-1776/.
“Learning Curve British Empire.” The National Archives, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/empire/g2/cs5/background.htm.
www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/.



Some people I plan on interviewing are: 
- Chris Hill
- Possibly some students
- Department of Agriculture (Maine) 

Some questions I plan on asking in an interview are

- How do you see human development affect the environment? 
- Do you see us slowing down our rate of industrial growth?
- What are some short-term solutions that might help the issue?
- What are some ways that everyone could do their part in saving the environment?










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