The Beautiful Lakes of China
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jun 24, 2009 08:16 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Anhui, Bizarre, China, Image Gallery, Made in China, Photoshop, Tourism
The stunning spectacle of this colourful lake near the Chinese city of Hefei has so deeply impressed 2ch that they felt it worthy of artistic tribute; you can see their efforts below…
2ch is moved:
Via Itai News.
The lake itself ended up this way due an algal bloom caused by chronic eutrophication (an increase in nutrients in a body of water); all life save the algae has died, and a foul stench emanates from the lake, though it certainly looks spectacular.
Efforts to clean the lake have proved futile, and specialists say the only solution may be to get rid of it entirely…
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Not just China, sadly. A few years ago one lake over here, in the middle of town, was filled with dead fish. Yucks><
Very nasty algae boom :p I thought the green stuff looked like toxic slut for a second there
It's the Nicklelodeon Slime reservoir. =O
I lol'd so hard
Wee at least china has some dough..unlike my country..
The small elite group does, but most Chinese people are about as well-off as a tramp in Britain or America.
green? well atleast it's better than yellow...
yes, we have yellow.
This is a message from yours truly dearest China government:
Cultural revolution in China!
Impressionism just reached our lakes.
Such a triumph is compared to Claude Monet early works, like in the painting Impression: Soleil Levant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Monet,_Impression,_soleil_levant,_1872.jpg
The avant garde movement is truly awakening on cultural China!
Nevermind nature, it's all about THE ARTS!
China, the best country in world........................NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!
they need captain planet for this.
Isn't this an algae trap? so whats wrong with this, its like judging a country by looking at their garbage tip.
That's the point.
Algae Trap ????
Oh, hang on misunderstanding there....
well,this is why we made that algae trap:
http://www.cenews.com.cn/tpxw/200906/W020090623335144456009.jpg
continuous high tempreture and south wind set off the boom of algae
someone'd better have some their own cognition and sense of distinction
you feel it just well being led by the nose by others?
HOLY SHIT! Is that for real? it's a friggin painting~!
And now... the GULF of Mexico is dying...
Wow, that guy is painting the lake. How awesome is that?
Monet-esque.
isnt nori made of algae?
why not just sell it?
But all that vibrant blue stuff, isn't that copper pollution?
At any rate algae can be put to use on various things, can't they harvest them for some porpouse?
wow.... what a LAKE!!! bwahahaha looks like my booger! XD
Legend has it that if you throw down a piece of paper it will turn into a "green money"
The green stuff looks tasty
This is China's policy: build up economy first at all costs, restore the environment later. This is the same policy the West pursued when it was building up it's own economy back in the day.
buag, that lake have a color green.....no is shit?
By the rivers of babylon...
Oh China... When will you learn?
When the rest of the world stops buying their crap.
"Chronic eutrophication(an increase in nutrients in a body of water)"
...Hmmm
Years of untreated sewage going into the lake, maybe?
Shit does count as fertilizer.
Eutrophication, much?
Enjoy your uninhabitable waters!
it's still good
ours is black
You know, you're supposed to sell naphtha, not to fish in it...
A proof of being China :3
geez why don't they simply shoot themselves, instead of dragging eveyone in their ride
At first I thought I was looking at a painting ^^
+1 to that.
I loled when I saw filtered version though.
Such beautiful and radiant colours!
Isn't it fertilizer runoff?
They can feed the poor with the algae, solve two problems at once.
Nice boat.
Anyone up for a swim?
China needs serious quality control. I honestly never want to set foot in china after seeing how much pollution it has.
Makes you wonder where the chronic eutrophication comes from :S
Most likely from fertilizers utilized by the farmers. The fertilizers run off due to the rain water and enter streams and lakes. This leads to a spike in algal growth due to the increase in levels of nitrogen (including other chemicals essential to plant growth). Then, the algae will absorb all the oxygen in the water as well as block out the sun for other organisms as they cover the surface of the water.
Then things die. Yes.
I like this explanation. Yes.
Absorb oxygen? I was under the impression Algae produces oxygen.
Photosynthesis and all that.
Yes, but then you're under the wrong impression that algae only undergo photosynthesis... all plants undergo cellular respiration as well as photosynthesis. However, photosynthesis requires light, so it happens in the day time. So what happens, is that during the day, oxygen levels would increase, while at night, it would drastically decrease as the algae takes in the oxygen and undergo cellular respiration. Also, as the amount of algae increases, the organisms which feed on said algae would increase rapidly, initially. This would lead to the further depletion of oxygen as these organisms undergo respiration. It would also lead to an increase in the concentration of biological wastes generated by said organisms.
And then things die. Again.
Thanks for clarifying. :)
Excessive use of fertilizers causes the nutrients to seep into the water supply and thus increasing the nutrients that algae gets causing an algae growth boom which blocks out the sun light causing vegetation growing at the base of the lake to die out depriving fishes of their natural food which causes them to die and rot increasing the growth of algae.
What I don't even
Is it possible to fail THIS bad at being nature-friendly?
...Apparently.
They're very green. The problem is that it's only green, all for algae, none for you silly "animals".
pfft
I lol'd
I'd quite like to see something like that o.O Still, silly China ^.^
that's China for you. They destroy everything they touch -___-
You DO realise majority of the everyday goods we use are now made by China right?
Without China's being over-population leading to slave wage labours (average labours work 14 hours a day only get paid what get for an hour's minimum wage), the price of goods that we buy could easily become doubled, or even tripled.
Maybe if you did, you'd realise that it's actually a term people use. Just like the phrase "stupid cunt" which I'm now using on you.
Pot, meet kettle.
In truth, wages paid to employees in some situations can in truth be LESS than the equivalent compensation a slave would receive.
But how you ask?
A slave is property. As such, it is almost always worthwhile to keep a slave alive, and in a condition capable of continuing to work.
For non-union, low-skill industrial workers, even that isn't true. Often it isn't even necessary to pay them enough to feed themselves, much less cloth and house. They aren't property, and they aren't worth keeping alive. Disposable cogs to be replaced as necessary.
Slave wage..... huh... thats a tad oxymoronic.... maybe someone needs to study some economics
That's an algea bloom. It's not necessarily caused by pollution, but it could be from fertilizer runoff.
or human shit
could be water from this bath: http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/492064
COMAND AND CONQUER AHHH
the increase of nutrients (mainly nitrogen heavy materials) could certainly still be due to man made causes, and I would bet money on that being the case.
Build more refineries and harves it quick!
.. or liquid tiberium :p
ono thats hollywood
Yeah! Don't forget to mention feminists.
Green goo... Delicious (NOT!!)
I sure enjoyed their baby powdered milk and toxic painted toys
YOU enjoy the goods China made, they suffer the pollutions...
Ggggrrrrreeeeeeeen!!It's good for your eyesight!!Like hell I believe it!!
Can't tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Pretty amusing in a way though.
bad.. algee killed everything in the lake.. and so goes the water supply... those people probably fished for a living in that lake... sad really
It's obviously a bad (yet somewhat amazing and amusing) thing, since there's not going to be anything else than algae living in that lake in like ever?
obviously this is bad but this is the result of the economic booming. Cheap labor, rapid modernization lead to low standards to cut costs. Low standards bring on the pollutions and the government looks the other way as long as there is profit. Its a pity that there is such destruction of natural life but the counter argument is the some 300 million middle class moving up and for the most part, raising the standard of living and increasing those who have to those who have not.
As the saying goes, it won't be our problem, let our kids handle it.
The sins of the father, and all that...
This is of course quite true - they will have quite a bill in later years. Still, most people would understandably rather have their TV/PC now, and worry about their ruined environment two decades hence.
The enivormental damage is around 5-6% of GDP. So economic growth is kind of a wash.
The bad things is death to all living creature except algae in the lake. Good thing is that the algae could actually be used as fertilizer.
algae blooms are usually caused by fertilizer
now imagen all the sea's in the world having that happen... hell it will hapen if all the wales in the world die...
Whales or welsh?
/bad pun
Beautiful.
Why isn't there a lake like this where I live?
You should more grateful that there isn't a lake like that where you live.
China is doomed...
Listen to this man.
Allthough, I wouldn't mind a lake that LOOKED like this.
Probably an example of agriculture done wrong. D:
Still, it certainly looks like "art".
Don't you mean "agriculture done WONG"?
You read my mind. xD
For all the talk about it in the environmentalism class I took, never really saw just what the algal blooms really looked like.
That is unbelievably trippy, if depressing on account of what it represents.
you guys are stupid, place close attention to the photos, that area of the lake is round off from the rest.
It's like the waters of Ankh-Morpork. They only call it water because it's too thin to plow ...
That picture of the china man holding that shit in his hands just reminds me of fallout 3.
I really feel sorry for those poor fishes.
Ahh beauty comes from everything... Even the most fragrant scents to the foul stenches.
I want to say that the environmental pollution problem is not only a country's business but also worldwide one.
I still want to move to China...
没办法，政府只管发展，不管环境和公民的死活
Direct orders come from the top of the nation, asking for certain increasing in economy each year, that's not an easy task most of the time, so the local government have to put economic increasing on top of any other things, what a stupid government.
what a funny!
愚昧!
environment protection and living standard are parts of social development
保护环境和生活水平属于发展的重要组成部分