Matt Lief Anderson - Cultivate, Thrive, Wane

This series is called "Cultivate, Thrive, Wane." Our planet is plagued by flooding, prolonged droughts, and other climate related drawbacks related to global warming. America is particularly implicit in perpetuating the myth that humans aren't contributing to the crisis.

Many parts of the American southwest are now unprotected from oil and mining companies who have begun to capitalize on the newly unrestricted national resources of our Native American tribal lands.

Java, Indonesia is plagued by deforestation and marine pollution. The exploitation of natural resources in Chile are contributing to the extinction of more than a dozen species of animals. These are some of the places I've photographed for this series but they are not unique in their desecration. Earth is facing a barrage of irreversible attacks from all corners.