monument

I don't mean this to be any sort of doom speak about human pollution, blah blah blah. But haven't you noticed that many of the world's finest man-made monuments are decomposing much faster than nature would allow? Be it through human destruction such as this, or through tourism such as this, dying monuments are in the news. At the rate we're going, maybe this is a closer reality than this:

"Leshan Dafo, or Big Buddha of Leshan, is the largest stone sculpture of Buddha in the world. The colossal 71-meter (233 ft) seated statue of Buddha (dafo) is located on a cliff at the confluence of two rivers, the Dadu He and the Min He, overlooking the town of Leshan, about 50 km east of Emeishan. The Buddha is so big that one hundred people can stand on any one of its feet."