Mesmerizing Satellite Photos Show How Much We’ve Changed the Natural World – Feature Shoot

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Mesmerizing Satellite Photos Show How Much We’ve Changed the Natural World – Feature Shoot

From the obsidian depths of the cosmos, the planet Earth is but a grain of blue, anchored only by the gravitational pull of the sun and sheltered merely by a slender membrane of atmosphere. In the 1980s, writer Frank White called it “The Overview Effect”:

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Artist Benjamin Grant harnesses the potency of the Overview Effect by creating Daily Overview, an Instagram account devoted to showcasing the Earth from above. It’s not the picturesque wilderness he’s after but visions for more discomfiting.