Do we realize the harmfulness of human greed in seeking to exploit ever more the resources of Earth just for short term material prosperity?
But do we know the disastrous consequences hidden behind this prosperity that Lu Guang euphemistically calls “development”? We can always refer the history mirror back to the so-called developed countries, and that is the language of revenge often borrowed by China: “you had abused the Earth enough for a long time, now it is our turn and you have no right to lecture us.”
But no country has gone as far in the devastation of the eco-system, no other economy has been as unscrupulous predatory. If the Western society has seen the birth of green movements and a generalization of an ecological culture, all that remains at an embryonic stage in China. It is true however, that not so many countries have had one billion and five hundred million mouths to feed, as many bodies to dress, to heat, and to transport, all this in a record time, in three decades! And in thirty years the warfare by industrial developers against Mother Nature has been terrifying, and will leave long-term aftermath. That makes Lu Guang’s photographic vision drawn from his 15-year battle even more remarkable, not so much for being spectacular but because of the absence of the spectacular, since it is simply hyper-realistic.