NationStates Jolt Archive


Linfen: The city where you cannot see the sun

Rhaomi
02-04-2007, 02:48
And you thought Los Angeles was smoggy... (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/v5/content/features/chinaslideshow/index.html)

With China polluting at such an epic level, do we have any hope of cleaning up the environment?

EDIT: Also take a look at this (http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/TEACHERS/ATMOSPHERE/ChinaPollution.html). Frightening.
Mikesburg
02-04-2007, 02:51
That sucks.

You'd think there could be something we could do with the exhaust/dust/etc. without pumping it into the air... underground tunnels or something.. I don't know.

That sucks.
Pyotr
02-04-2007, 02:52
And you thought Los Angeles was smoggy... (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/v5/content/features/chinaslideshow/index.html)

With China polluting at such an epic level, do we have any hope of cleaning up the environment?

EDIT: Also take a look at this (http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/TEACHERS/ATMOSPHERE/ChinaPollution.html). Frightening.

Jesus, sometimes I think the world is just doomed.
IL Ruffino
02-04-2007, 02:53
:eek:
Call to power
02-04-2007, 02:53
good news if your a lichen :(

edit: actually it turns out the GCSE course lied to me only some species do well in polluted areas the rest die
South Lizasauria
02-04-2007, 02:54
poor people....:( And it was because of pollution I nearly coughed by lungs out in Manilla yet there its even worse. :eek:
Vetalia
02-04-2007, 03:25
It's still cleaner then Vetalia...
Zarakon
02-04-2007, 03:31
Sounds like the name of a video game.
Sel Appa
02-04-2007, 03:57
It's still cleaner then Vetalia...

Eh?
Maraque
02-04-2007, 03:58
Jesus, that looks so unreal.
The South Islands
02-04-2007, 03:58
Eh?

Vetalia's just saying that he's a dirty little boy...
Maraque
02-04-2007, 03:59
Linfen ain't got nothing on some Maraquean cities. Although they're uninhabited.
Vetalia
02-04-2007, 04:25
Eh?

The planet of Vetalia is an industrial wasteland, destroyed from centuries of reckless economic development. Not only can't you see the sun, but most of its water has been replaced by pools of toxic sludge. The biological life that still survives outside of the cities is mutated beyond recognition, from the purple grasses laced with heavy metals to the radioactive, wandering fungi and all manner of horrifying animal monstrosities.

The entire population lives inside shielded arcologies, with the biological population having long since fleeing to our colony worlds. So, it's all inorganic inhabitants on the actual planet.
Vetalia
02-04-2007, 04:31
Vetalia's just saying that he's a dirty little boy...

I apologize for nothing!
Potarius
02-04-2007, 04:49
Linfen doesn't have shit on Pittsburgh prior to the 1990s.


http://www.explorepahistory.com/images/ExplorePAHistory-a0b6r5-a_349.jpg
http://www.gasp-pgh.org/pgh-img/wwIIcoal.jpg
http://www.gasp-pgh.org/pgh-img/nov1954dirtypghlibertytunn.jpg
http://www.gasp-pgh.org/pgh-img/1965-cleanpghlibtunnel.jpg
http://www.gasp-pgh.org/pgh-img/1972smokestckdowntown.jpg
http://www.gasp-pgh.org/pgh-img/darknessatnoon.jpg
http://www.gasp-pgh.org/pgh-img/downtowncars.jpg
http://www.gasp-pgh.org/pgh-img/downtownsmokestack.jpg
http://www.gasp-pgh.org/pgh-img/pgh1906.jpg
http://www.gasp-pgh.org/pgh-img/smokypittsburgh1.jpg
http://www.gasp-pgh.org/pgh-img/treespollution.jpg
http://www.explorepahistory.com/images/ExplorePAHistory-a0b8a5-a_349.jpg
http://www.wmuseumaa.org/shared/steelvalley.jpg
http://www.bchistory.org/beavercounty/HistoricalSocieties/BCIndustrialMuseum/PGH-WORK.JPG


Sorry, but as famous as old Pittsburgh's absolutely horrible pollution was, I just can't believe that you guys find Linfen even the least bit shocking.
Barringtonia
02-04-2007, 04:53
It should be shocking, it is shocking, Pittsburgh was shocking,
Soheran
02-04-2007, 05:00
Wow... public health must be a disaster there.
Potarius
02-04-2007, 05:00
It should be shocking, it is shocking, Pittsburgh was shocking,

I didn't mean it that way, but they're acting as if they've never even so much as heard of anything remotely like Linfen before.

I mean come on, even many towns in Eastern Europe are that bad. Pretty much every place that is behind technologically and economically, and uses coal power along with producing steel, is going to have terrible pollution.

Yes, it's despicable, but Linfen is not unique.
Congo--Kinshasa
02-04-2007, 05:24
Wonder if it's as bad as Mexico City?
Rhaomi
02-04-2007, 05:24
Yes, it's despicable, but Linfen is not unique.
It is unique in that it is internationally recognized as the most polluted city on Earth...
Potarius
02-04-2007, 05:28
Wonder if it's as bad as Mexico City?

Oh, it's definitely worse, but Mexico City really isn't that far behind.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
02-04-2007, 05:32
But, of course, the US is at fault for climate change by not hobbling itself with the Kyoto Protocol (which, by the by, gave China carte-blanche).
Potarius
02-04-2007, 05:34
But, of course, the US is at fault for climate change by not hobbling itself with the Kyoto Protocol (which, by the by, gave China carte-blanche).

Oh yeah, definitely.

*snicker*
The Lone Alliance
02-04-2007, 05:48
With all that moving smoke...
Wind power would work wonders in China. Except for the lack of room.
Dosuun
02-04-2007, 06:42
And people say that America is destroying the environment...

Time for a few agricultural greenhouses maybe?