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Mar 1, 2005
"The earth belongs to the living. No man may by natural right oblige the lands he owns or occupies to debts greater than those that may be paid during his own lifetime. Because if he could, then the world would belong to the dead and not to the living." --Thomas Jefferson
Kyoto's Birth
With Russia's ratification in 2004, The Kyoto Protocal came into effect on February 16th 2005. Now international law, the protocal's intention is for industrialized countries to cut their greenhouse gas emmissions to 5% below 1990 levels by the year 2012. How much is our economic behaviour changing the face of the earth? The images that photographer Gary Braasch has been recording and assembling since 1999 provide us with a glimpse.