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Burtynsky's photographs take the audience from a waste transfer site in Scarborough, Ont., to the swirling grey swaths of a tailings pond at Wesselton Diamond Mine in South Africa, the world's fifth-largest diamond producer by volume (about 9.6 million carats a year).
"The urgency that I've been feeling over the last decade has now hit a kind of a fever pitch," Burtynsky told CBC News.
Burtynsky, who is also showing some of his work at the Flowers Gallery in London, says he has spent more than four decades "bearing witness" to the way civilization has transformed the planet, and hopes this exhibition will "move us all to a place of positive action."