Photographer Chris Jordan documents scenes where

the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon…evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress.

His current work consists of photographs taken on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific, 2000 miles form civilization, but sadly far too close to “garbage island” the swirling sea of plastic trash the size of Texas. There he found a horrifying sight:

The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

Reduce and recycle? Will that be enough? A small step we can take, at least to try a little….