NationStates Jolt Archive

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.

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.

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.

:eek:

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

poor people....:( And it was because of pollution I nearly coughed by lungs out in Manilla yet there its even worse. :eek:

It's still cleaner then Vetalia...

Sounds like the name of a video game.

It's still cleaner then Vetalia...

Eh?

Jesus, that looks so unreal.

Eh?

Vetalia's just saying that he's a dirty little boy...

Linfen ain't got nothing on some Maraquean cities. Although they're uninhabited.

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 Not only can't you see the sun, but most of its water has been replaced by pools of toxic sludge.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's just saying that he's a dirty little boy...

I apologize for nothing!

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.

It should be shocking, it is shocking, Pittsburgh was shocking,

Wow... public health must be a disaster there.

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.

Wonder if it's as bad as Mexico City?

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...

Wonder if it's as bad as Mexico City?

Oh, it's definitely worse, but Mexico City really isn't that far behind.

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).

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*

With all that moving smoke...
Wind power would work wonders in China. Except for the lack of room.

And people say that America is destroying the environment...

Time for a few agricultural greenhouses maybe?