The Dark Side of China’s Industrial Boom
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Oct 22, 2009 04:58 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, China, Environment, Guro, Image Gallery, Made in China, Photography
China’s impressive growth and gleaming towers are only possible because of a huge and frequently overlooked sacrifice, with millions ravaged by industrial poisons and much of the land blighted for decades to come.
These photos are by Lu Guang, of Zhejiang province, a former factory worker turned photographer who has devoted much attention to documenting some of the less savoury aspects of China’s rise.
His efforts to document the unfolding ecological catastrophe which blights much of China have recently earnt him the Smith Award for humanistic photography:
Even the Chinese government has published estimates showing it has been losing as much as 3% of its GDP annually due to the effects of pollution.
International bodies such as the World Bank have made much higher estimates, with anywhere from 6-10% of GDP lost due to the effects of pollution, suggesting GDP figures alone may be drastically overstating the actual, but undeniably substantial, gains in welfare realised by the Chinese people.
China’s impressive growth is set to lift hundreds of millions out of poverty, but this may only have been accomplished by mortgaging the health of as many, and at the cost of devastating much of China and the wider East Asian region.
thats just sick...
To think China is #2.
Yeah. China is Number One! ALL HAIL TO CHINA!
They need help seriously... One day those pollutions will effect the sea and entire world... Would you help them before it too late?
This can happen during rapid industrialization...
These stories sound so familiar...
some pictures look a lot like america and europe during the "industrial revolution"... we had to fight for change i'm sure it'll change eventually... not with the powers that be though...
no dude, china surpassed America in pollution a while ago.
may nuking that place might actually save the earth...
From the humeans yes becouse no one will survive . Death to all humans .
Nuke it, and the whole planet might blow up with all that chemical pollution...
Hey Hey i doubt so... from my calculation... the radiation from a micro nuke is sufficient to vapourse a house.... but nuking those pollution... guess the ozone would have another big hole LOL!!!
Nuking that place may just make all those pollutant liquids fly high into the sky and fall as rain. It kinda makes it worse, I'd say.
It's always easy for people from foreign countries to judge China for this, when in actuality countries like USA, Canada, England, Japan, etc. are to blame for all the pollution in China. If it wasn't for the demand of cheaper produced products by major foreign companies, then China wouldn't even be producing this massive amount of pollution due to the lack of demand. We are to blame for the state China is in, and if it wasn't for their cheaply produced wares, then there wouldn't be any competition by companies, and the prices would continue to be high, which results in higher cost of living everywhere around the world.
Stop fucking baaawwwling, China is every bit responsible of their actions; they saw a demand, they offered their products and everyone is supposedly happy, the end. What you're gonna blame foreign countries for everything Chinese suffer? ...oh wait you already did that, dumbass.
Fine then, if you think you can run your entire life without a single China made product, then you should throw out everything that is made in China. That includes many parts from the PC you're currently using, all food that includes ingredients including seasoning from China, and all possessions you own made with raw materials from China.
It's easy for you to call someone else a dumbass when you're afraid of admitting that everyone is to blame for this situation. It's already obvious to everyone China has a part to blame in this also, but you're deflecting all the blame specifically to China for everything, when it involves everyone. That is a completely ignorant way of thinking. Foreign companies want to take advantage of the low pay rates in China, and obviously they have taken advantage of it. Who benefits from this situation? We do.
If you can't make a single intelligent comment without thinking first, then you can go ahead and call people names but it's obvious you've already done that. So I wish to congratulate you for making your most intelligent single thought of the year.
china saw a demand, they had cheap labor, they went for it, i hate made in china and i try not to go for it
but you guys did it to yourselves, the reason why china dosent go for quality, is because they have none, they cant compete in quality markets, so they go for quantity and price
What the fuck do you mean we do we might benefit in cost but their is a great loss with all these factories being shipped to china if you wanna blame someone blame the companies that have factories in china if their were no factories their would be no pollution and lower costs wouldn't even be on the minds of people.
"If you can't make a single intelligent comment without thinking first"
The person who posted that forgot to consider that this situation isn't caused by Chinese industry exactly, it is caused by their love affair with dirty fuels. They can stop poisoning their land so much, and still be cheap source of imports. Develop and perfect clean energy solution, and learn to make it inexpensively. Then they can continue to produce things less expensively, continue to export, stop poisoning their people, and become a leader (and exporter) of said technology.
You're in a forest and you really need to shit. The nearest toilet is miles away. Don't fucking tell me that you wouldn't you make use of the bush to your left. If you think developing a cheap,clean energy solutions is that simple;how about you go invent one smart ass?
But that example sucks! Taking a few dumps in the forest is good for it. Dung = fertilizer.
The extreme pollution is also due to the lack of regulation by the government. I believe there are barely any laws and regulations.
Actually the most things aren't made in china anymore, special products with the fair-trade certificate.
most parts are assambled in China... not really made in China... food however is made in Countries such as Singapore, Japan, USA, USR, EU and some other parts of the world but not much in China... unless ur getting junk food lolx
This in a global equivalent trade -__-
There are laws, but not proper regulation.
Plus China is a country of corruption. Regulation means nothing if some companies can give some officials some kickbacks to stay their hand or whatever.
I'm sure we can't "live" without china made products that break down easily and whatnot but that's not the point.
The point is that it's not our fault company ABC decides to dump their industrial waste into the rivers.
It's not our fault company XYZ decides to dump their industrial in the neighbouring villages.
Lastly it's not our fault the government isn't doing anything about it(of course, this is a government that deemed it alright to let some babies die due to the whole melamine fiasco, and these are the same companies that decided it was a good idea to be silent about one of their factory failures that caused a leak of waste that went into the rivers that provided the water supply for their own China and some other parts of the continent.)
The same shit's been done by American companies before back in the day, and it's the same thing worldwide. Difference here being that they are regulated and laws are enforced, for example the EU are very strict on using green industrial methods and are promoting green advances wherever feasible.
Those American companies are now paying for long term effects caused by their practices years ago, and I don't see China enforcing this anytime soon, mostly because it's a problem with how they think.
Are you chinese?
i think everybody and every country has problems.. Fucking passing the blame between countries or ppl is bullshit. Who's fault is it? How are you guys coming up with where the fault lies? Everyone played a part.
This is just my opinion but I think that the US and other countries had a part in the pollution of china due to their exploitation of the market, but china made their own regulations based on their own values to create the market right?
... you make it sound like we put a gun to China's head.
You wanna know why Chinese products are cheaper? Because they chain their currency to the US dollar. The exchange rate is not the true rate. They are one of the last countries to do this. So their currency will always be cheaper than the US dollar and move in line with the dollar. Thusly making it more attractable to buy from China because it's always so cheap.
Which means the Chinese want this. Why? Because $$$
wow... fyi china has depeg their currency to the USD since 2007, you might want to get your facts straight before you type.
woops i ment 2005
It is still not free floating, and the government is said to be manipulating the rates to encourage exporters.
no that is the result of half assing everything they do. if they had safety regulations to follow and had the common sense to realize you don't "shit where you eat" they wouldn't be in this fucking mess. they have no one to blame but themselves. if i see something is built in japan i feel comfortable buying it. if it is built in china, i say to hell with it, it probably has lead in the paint or is made from depleated uranium. they can keep their useless shit and should focus on cleaning up their act and helping out the people that are mutated/sick.
you speak truth. You've been buried by idiots or moderators. Or americans.
Who knows or cares.
So I guess what's being said here is that "It's not China's government at fault for letting this continue, it's foreigners who are at fault for what goes on in China. *sigh* Next time my house is dirty, I'm blaming my neighbor for not forcing me to clean it.
^perfect summary right there.
A more exaggerate analogy I would have said is this:
If you were to call me shit, and I shoot you in the head, that is partially your fault. Reasonable argument? fuck no.
So who committed the act of murder? Me. Who is polluting the land? China. Therefore what the fuck is with the dumb asses providing defense for China?
If a manufacturer was using slaves to make toys, and then the demand for the toys increased, is it the public's fault for the manufacturer using slaves?
Amazing amount of dumb fucks here...
Just because someone offers someone else money for something, doesn't mean the offeree has to accept, i.e.,
Offer: "I'll pay you $500.00 to let me fuck you in the ass."
Response: "No! Get the hell away from me!"
The government officials and profiteers don't care about environmental protection; ignoring that just means more money in their pockets.
The mostly-politically-powerless mass of Chinese citizens don't care about environmental protection either -- at least, they care less about it than making enough money to NOT starve.
The companies having things made for them super-cheaply in China are like drug lords. They're waving around huge wads of cash, and saying, "If you don't make what we want, at the low price we want, we'll just find someone else to do it. You want the cash, or not?"
One might continuing the drug-trade analogy, and say, "If it weren't for those greedy Western consumers (drug users) who want the cheapest possible goods, this wouldn't happen!"
While partially true, the flip side is that the corporations will take the money "saved" by using such human/environment-hostile production methods, regardless of how much money consumers are willing to spend on a product.
One of the things that's really stupid is that these sorts of production methods are, well, stupid, crude, and "wasteful".
If they'd apply a little THINKING, they'd realize chemicals dumped out == lost profits! If I owned a factory, you could bet your buttons I'd have my chemists working out how to transform my "waste products" into something I could either re-use in my own factory, or re-sell to other companies, if I couldn't use it myself.
I'd also be treating my workers decently. Happy workers == loyal and productive workers.
But perhaps in China, the human masses/economic conditions are such that the "Work like a dog for me or you're fired!" and "If a worker dies, I can always get another."-employer attitudes are profitable.
What website are the pictures from? I'd like a link.
looks like the logo at the bottom says bbs.163.com
I can't read the language and it doesn't give me a link directly to the photographs.
Ha, mankind... a cesspit of hatred and lies!
No, that just stink
Kinda reminds you of fallout 3...
Fallout 3 wasn't that bad O_O
I was just thinking that lol, China already had the apocalypse, weird! At least they didn't have a chance to invade Canada, damn reds.
Don't even want to think how chinese vaults would be like.
Before coming here, I've always seen China as a clean place.. where there are lush forests and and picturesque rivers...
but this...
A lot of China is how you describe it. Sankaku just exaggerates everything to make it sound like a wasteland. You can find filth and dirty houses in any country, whether it be the USA, Japan, or Australia.
its not that sankaku over-exaggerates the situation in china, rather that they only see fit to report on the bad stuff for the mostpart. You can hear about something huge and GOOD related to china on CNN, but where will you see an image of actual green sludge?
you guys are being ignorant and naive
To say you can find filth in any country is really overgeneralizing. That's like saying I can find oxygen or water in every country.
The point being made here is the filth seen here is extra-ordinarily bad, as are the consequences.
Anon 07;26 got a point. News and other media always used to over-exaggerates beauty in a country but almost never it's ugliness. And for propaganda if there's a war in that country and never it's peaceful sides of war.
While Sancon and Artefact only post truth.
"That's like saying I can find oxygen or water in every country"
Well, is it not true?
The idea that China is filled with lush forests is kind of abscure, though; since romance of three kingdoms time, much of the "beautiful" environment is still along the coastal border. Inland China has always been filled with wasteland.
"rather that they only see fit to report on the bad stuff for the mostpart."
That's the point of news, to tell people what they don't know, sensational or not. You make it sound like it's bad to know that a good part of China is pretty fucked up.
I do admit that China may have an over industrialising issue resulting in high pollution and such, my china friends say it all the time so its true.
But that is only one side of the picture. Its pretty much as bad in any developing country, at least China has the results and power to soon become a developed country, where more focus can be placed to resolve these scars of industrialisation.
On another part, doesn't anyone find it annoying that Sankaku complex is always picking on problems in China? Loving anime and manga is one thing, but to the stage of worshipping anything Japanese including even belitting their enemies is kinda ...dim
While yes, you can find shit in every country, China is probably gonna top most places. And really, when do you see media reporting on all sides of an argument, and would you really care about China articles which didnt focus on the fail aspect?
In my country, we don't have oxygen or water, but helium and Dr Pepper.
Those pictures are quoted from a famous Chinese web site, so is there any evidence that Sankaku know it, you know it, but we don't know it?
Come to think about it, how can we not know about this? Even the close circle TV reports this sometimes... But in most of the case, they are too far away from our home, so we don't care that much, and truly, only a few places has became such a hell, there're still many beautiful forest and clean rivers.
@ 10:38
You're crying in the wrong place, this is a website about mainly all Japanese, anime and videogames but even so stop the bullshit because you can see sancom giving bad news about Japan and any other places too, it's only when it's something related to you that you start jumping at it and wailing "discrimination!".
China is a big place.
@ 11:54
If this is a website about Japan, then how come theres all this stuff about China in the first place?
In fact, there's only ever bad news on this website about other countries.
Yes bad news exist on this site too, but that makes sense as this website is meant to be about Japan.
At the top of the page in the categories list, the categories are Anime, Manga, Games, H, Japan.
Then why all the China/Korea bashing?
obviously because it's not meant to be all about japan
>obviously because it's not meant to be all about japan
Please tell me that was sarcasm.
Yes, I can't stand all the China hatred as well; to be honest I can't stand a LOT about this site, but the good outweighs the bad.
Anon 10:38
"But that is only one side of the picture. Its pretty much as bad in any developing country, at least China has the results and power to soon become a developed country, where more focus can be placed to resolve these scars of industrialisation."
so what good is to become a developed country whit all your people sick? do you really think wen you get to the goal of being an developed country the land will be able to take anything else?
Well, just like London, its atmosphere was once been polluted heavily because of the development of industry, but it looks much better now. Why can't China go the same way? Pollute it first, pure it later.
But there are thing which could never be fixed.
Particularly people's lives.
@13:24
You can't read shit, can you? I said MAINLY about Japanese stuff, not the only thing, moron.
>In fact, there's only ever bad news on this website about other countries.
Then why all the China/Korea bashing?
So what if China/Korea news are bad ones? It's obvious they're gonna post mostly the bad stuff since it's what gives you the most hits, so stop being a fucking baby. If you hate it so much GTFO, nobody is forcing you to visit the site.
sad thing is people in america can do something about it. look at the chinese locals. they think it's fucking normal. their gov't spews some bs and they take it with a gun to their head.
That's not true. If you've paid any attention to previous posts here on Sankaku about landfills, some local populations were able to get a voice and stop/improve their poor conditions.
The problem with China is corruption at the city and town level. Most local politicians are more concerned about lining their pockets with money than the welfare of the people they are trusted to take care of.
People in America can do something about it? Why can't it be people in China can do something about it? America can't take care of every goddamn thing in the world you know. They should try to take a little responsibility for themselves. Its there fuckin country.
*facepalm*
Admittedly 7:36 didn't make it clear, but still regarding the context: reading comprehension fail. They meant within their own country. That is, Americans can do something about the American pollution, but it's near impossible for the Chinese and theirs, because of their government. Summarized for clarity.
Anyways, I saw the opening pics first, and was like "So, new American FPS come out? Dang, more brown graphics... oh wait, China." Some of these seriously look like they could be from GoW or something.
The corrupted official is obviously at fault because they will never take care of the locals. That is why even though usa pay tax, we can control we is going on inside the government. Down with communism.
I second this. Down with Communism.
hey hey everything it's ups and downs just like communism
Bitches don't know bout my duckweed. Also, anyone with half a brain should have already known about China before this. Yes, they've had tremendous growth the past decade or so. But they've done so by ignoring the ill effects of industrializing with such lax requirements on polution. The growth figures tend not to reflect the eventual cost of cleaning up and the long trerm effects of losing face in the international arena for not taking any steps at all to protect intellectual property. But hey, if your eyes are being opened now then that's fine. China's been moving forward but not as fast as they'd like you to think.
I'm surprised this is so surprising to some people. Did any of you follow the Beijing Olympics? They built up concrete walls in front of lower income neighborhoods so foreigners couldn't see the people living there. With people in their major cities being treated like that, how do you think people are treated in the industrial wasteland?
Out of Sight, out of mind.
Industrial revolutions were the same everywhere.
@ anon 06:19
I dont think this is an exaggeration, as you might know environmental laws in china as way less strict than in other countries like us/europe, so this pics illustrates what happens.
haven u been hiding under a rock?
Sorry to break it to you, but those picturesque rivers only flow in places where there's less money to be made.
How to be a Tycoon in China:
1. Build factory with government money
2. Give workers S*** pay.
3. Produce toxic waste that kills your workers
4. Get more workers
5. Sell lead and mercury filled products over seas for profit.
6. Recycle them by putting them in big piles.
7. Burn the piles, releasing toxic gas that kills your workers.
8. Get more workers and pay them S*** again.
9. Repeat from step 5.
lead and mercury can only be shipped to america, they are banned substances in Europe.
thank god for them idiots
niggest polluter in the facee of the Earth. Wanna nknow why people in India die from the Ganji river? It gets polluted upstream. The sad thing is for all the GDP of the whole nation (second biggest in the world) if it's split up on a per capita basis they don't even break the top 70 in the world.
China's GDP is not the second biggest in the world, not even close. Japan's currently #2, and it's not even half that of the US.
BIGGEST!, not niggest!
China's GDP is not the second biggest in the world, although it's close. Japan's currently #2, and it's not even half that of the US.
Hes probably talking about purchasing power..
if it's purchasing power parity, China is still pretty damn high considering it's size and population.
I think im gonna puke.
I grew up watching lots of chinese martial arts movies and loving the scenery, always felt china was a place I'd love to go too. Sad to see it in such a state just for a mere gold rush for those in the capital and other big cities.
China is big. It still has all that awesome scenery. Every country has some parts that they rather not show anyone else.
But not to this extent. Don't even act like every country has places like this.
any industrial country even the USA has problems
I live in LA
I look at the LA river
i lol
New Jersey
True but atleast there is some action taken towards the LA river and as americans even putting out wast we don't lose nearly as much GDP due to waste as china currently is because we have restrictions and actions put in place to prevent things from getthing as bad as a yak trying to swim through Toxic waste? or atleast some sort of toxic algae.
but it is true...
*every* developed/developing country does. The more it grows/ year, the worse it is. The US has places as bad as this, and places that look ok, but are deadly. Companies would rather not deal with polution, and citizens and governments are generally not good at preventing it. When was the last time someone got on you for littering?
I wonder why Sankaku Complex always picks the bad side of China, and shows them to Japan Loving People.
There are still many many parts of China that doesnt look like this ^^
Maybe Sankaku Complex could talk about racism in Japan from time to time instead of talking about China's bad sides on a page which deals with Japan :)
Long Islandfag here, but I used to see the East River all the time crossing over into Manhattan. And don't get me started on Sheepshead Bay....
But the guys above may have me beat.
If pollution is the price for progress, there's something very fucking wrong.
yeah..
I mean the majority of it's still green or at least slightly green that must mean nothing's wrong..
It's only A price for progress, just one most of the world is comfortable paying.
Greener industry is possible, but it means retooling a lot of production and losing a lot of profits. If only one company does it, it'll lose it's market share. If only one country does it, they'll lose most of their GNP.
Lol can you imagaine Jamaica advertising the rough tough area of Kingston over their sandy beaches?
I honestly would love to see that!
Chinese people are always so successful when they come to America and other countries even free regions like Taiwan and Hong Kong. It's their government that fucks over what could be a great and beautiful successful nation. God forbid they pass laws about pollution like we have in America that would hurt business and provide less tax dollars for the government to spend harassing their people.
Actually, if you've been keeping up with recent news, China's actually taking major steps to become a world leader in "going green" and in the development of clean alternative energy resources, some news outlets predicting that they'll outpace the U.S. by 2020. Apparently global warming isn't as big a debate in China as it is here in the States. It also seems they're fully aware of the effect pollution has had as a product of their explosive economic growth this past decade, their estimates ranging at a 3% GDP loss every year. In any case, we'll have to wait and see how it turns out, eh, whether their goals are just chaff in the wind or something they'll really buckle down on =P
It's hard to consider the lack of debate one of China's strengths, but it certainly works out to one in this instance.
Here in the US, people are allowed to voice skepticism over climate change, and use it under the flimsiest of pretexts.
"The bible didn't say nothing about no polar icecaps" is popular.
the bible what the fuck are you smoking who the fuck are you listening too? Shit I watch fox news more hours than is sane and I have never heard shit like that. Stop arbitraily hating one group for its different beliefs than yours.
Mao had plans to grow lots of food and build cheap damns with peasant labor and that turned out great didn't it.
What China tries or says it's going to do and what end up actually happening are usually not the same.
At the moment they seem more concerned with spending money on trying to neutralize the US Navy so they can dominate the region militarily.
Actually, from what news I've read many are saying that the recent economic boom is serving well to help pull millions of Chinese out of abject poverty. Of course, an improved economy with sub-standard living conditions isn't the typical Western bread and butter, but it looks to provide something of a brighter future for many Chinese (similar to the Industrial Revolution that several posters mentioned earlier).
And bringing Mao into the equation is speaking a little more to older sentiments, don't you think? He died in 1976, and since then China's economy has opened up considerably.
I bet another Chinese Revolution will happen if they keep this up.Its going to take them maybe a long time to figure out there Feng Shui is gone to shit untill someone smart enough figures out that that China in some Areas are screwed.
What does "blah blah economy, less poverty, blah blah" have to do with them becoming some clean eco friendly nation? Which was the topic.
There is no economic cost to having less regulations in the short term. There's really no cost in the long term if you don't give a shit about human lives, life spans and suffering, and that ties back Mao. China's leaders aren't the same as then, but they aren't that different either. They just figured out what it took to gain more national wealth and power.
The US loses hundreds of billions to it's pollution and safety regulations and it's illogical to think any of the claims of China losing "3% of GDP" is accurate when a highly regulated nation like the US loses much more then that to regulatory cost. If China had the US's regulations from 20 years ago their economy would grind to a crawl
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_21/b4132040805185.htm
At the end of the article it states that the World Bank puts China's GDP loss-estimate at an even higher 6% than China's own conservative 3% estimate.
Becoming a leader in eco-friendly technologies isn't just economically smart for China, it's economically smart for any country really. Anyone reading the market can see that clean technologies have made enormous ground in the past several years (hybrid cars, solar technology, etc.). Especially considering that the available fossil fuels are estimated to be depleted in the next 50 years, it just makes economic sense to get a corner on a market that's going to be around and provide the popular products of choice in the long run.
I don't disadmit China's problems with pollution. I can't even say they're on the fast-track to resolving it. IIRC, last year they became the world leader in carbon fuel emissions.
What I am pointing out is that most news sites for the past year or so have pointed towards China cornering the green energy market, as well as putting forth a number of ecological regulations and initiatives to curb industrial pollution to outdo the U.S. in the next decade.
Trying to paint China out to still be the same Maoist dictatorship it was 50 years ago is kind of like being a stick in the mud, you know? Some things change, and some things stay the same.
Now then - do you have sources to back your claim that the U.S. loses "hundreds of billions" to pollution and safety regulations, or was that just truthiness pulled out of your ass?
Heh, looks like I posted as Anon without noticing. >=D
China needs to be wiped out. Fast.
quickly save the lolis before it happens.
+1
Too late. Lolis have been aborted for shotas. Blame the one child policy.
Blame the United Nations for supporting the one-child policy.
Erm...we'd probably just move our enivronment killing factories elsewhere you know. Why pollute your own country when you can pollute others and for less money?
Actually some UK oil comapny has been caught dumping waste in Africa recently...
Well, with modern technology factories don't harm anybody, the nature included but china will see soon the fruits of their work (they do it already anyways).
Problem is it's about cost effectiveness. It's no secret that 90% of these companies and industries would put more weight on the cost/profit over harm on environment and people. Otherwise it wouldn't be capitalism that we so thrive on (^_^).
If they would get money support upgrades of their factories by the politicans there sure would be some that do it.
Hmmm it'd be nice to, but I doubt it. If it was that simple, governments and politicians all over the world would be doing it. Therefore these foriegn companies wouldn't have to look internationally and just close the ones already there down while opening factories at home (another reason why recession has had a large effect on it's people in other countries).
Also it's not just that it would cost more to have decent technological applications, but the economy will also be affected. The price of products would only increase at the same time. Another thing to think about is human workforce. Machines have been slowly replacing humans in the workplace (ever more so with the economic slump). So people would still work for very little, rather than be pushed aside for machines to take over. Royal Mail over here in UK have been sacking people like wild fire, and in replace a new machine that can do 1000 times more than a group of people and cheaper.
There's quite a bit of factors to be taken into account now that I look at it. Who knows? The economy may turn for the better (including other countries) and then things will pick up from there. They've already started anyway, whether we'll see a consistency is in question. If it is consistent then it will in the long term be beneficial and easier to deal with.
Don't wipe out my home x.x wipe out the waste
Dont worry he's an idiot. Whooosh!
Fuck me, I can't even imagine having to live in a place like that.
...Eew. That is just too gross...
hey at least theres still fishes in the water...for now...
cant help but feel bad for the bull...and to think that very bull can be killed and exported around the world as high quality meat is just...
Yeah,that's the kind of fish that'd make a third arm grow in your back,if you get what i mean...in a water like that.
As for the bull this is just...inhuman..
no matter if it's just gonna end up in your stomach,while it's still living show some care dammit...but in my case i certainly wouldn't eat it.
(sad for the poor creature,but my health first..)
I'm pretty sure it's algae.
most likely attributed to runoff polution (fertilzers, among other things...)
I'm pretty sure the cow is in a body of water filled with algae.
first time I've seen Neon Green Algae so thick that water doesn't break to the surface via the bulls movements
I can't believe I almost thought you said Neon Genesis...Beware of the 19th Angel Bulliel?
I've seen Algae blooms like that before. It happens in the swamps around here sometimes. They vary in color and density but ya, it happens.
why do you think the algae is like that? it's because the eco system has been destroyed and is out of balance allowing the algae to grow uncontrolled.
An image of a 2 headed cow or uber cow mutant pops up in my head. Either I played too much Fallout or watch too much Simpsons and Futurama. Or that one episode of Family Guy where they get super powers through toxic waste.
Truth is that's no longer a bull...instead it only looks like a bull on the surface but under that green goop are an array of tentacles waiting to drag it's next victim when they get close to help it.
Now you know to move with caution when approaching of Bulls in green goop. Ahh another good day worth of helping citizens.
All hail dread Cthulmoo!
Cthulmoo, the Tentacle Bull pokemon.
It lives in highly intoxicated swamps for most of it's life. They often fool travelers and good samaritans with it's looks of needing help on the surface. However it uses the swamp to hide it's 30 tentacles to ambush and drag it's prey under to feed on or to play.
Evolves at lv 40 to Chojinbull.
Looks like we don't actually need a nuclear holocaust to completely fuck up the world.
As if we ever did. Over population and over immigration (which then populates and ruins the richer countries) will do enough damage over time.
we need immigrants to work shit jobs for pennies though, white people aren't going to pick strawberries for $3 an hour with no benefits. Brown immigrants I mean, cause white immigrants can usually find good jobs if they speak English well.
Most of the white foreigners I know have had no problems at all.
That's utterly disgusting. Great pictures though.
This looks kinda cool. Like an alien planet
Fallout
Lol I wanted to say that. Better prepare for the Super Mutants XD
Oh! Don't forget about the ghouls!
don't forget darth vader. *Welcome to the darkside* let the dark force be with you.
This looks like a job for Captain Planet.
Cause saving our planet is the thing to do!
"Protect the environment or I'll f@#king kill you! CAPTAIN PLANET!!!" -Ted Turner
These pictures make it seem like they have been taken on another planet, especially the last pic of the moooooooninite cow.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/52549__468x_chinas-industrial-rise-at-what-cost-7.jpg
Doing LAUNDRY?? THERE?? *barf*
Nah, I think her job is to pick out the garbage.
sad
Nice, I love to see China continue like this
I had a friend that wanted to go to China. Then I decided to show pics from this article:
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/06/24/the-beautiful-lakes-of-china/
Naturally, thoughts of going were killed. Got more fun material to use now.
Forgot I showed this too:
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/09/12/waste-management-chinese-style/
Way to go China, you number one! ^_^
That's it.I am going to stop playing STALKER and go live in China.
Oh also it's wrong what they did there.
It's not what they did there, it is what capitalism did to them.
Not only capitalism greed also but not the greed of the factory owners greed of the government. If the government were so greedy they would regulate their country.
Also you dont need capitalism to have a factory that pollutes this badly sure with capitalism their are more of them but dont think that some state run factory with profit sharing would be any better I imagine it would be worse.
I thought the first two images were screenshots from STALKER when I was just scrolling down the page.
Bah, this is nothing. China is big, and has far more good looking places than bad ones. With 37 World Heritage Site's we have much more than Little Japan.
Nothing can stop us.
Wa are again Asia's master, and by the year 2050 we will rule this world. You know this.
Stop bitching around and accept your fate as China's slaves.
Hehe. Funniest comment I've read yet today. :)
yea umm you're .. pretty wrong bro so many things i can say now just to prove you wrong but i have no time to waste replying to an Anonymous comment
Me too. I have a lot of things to say too but I won't waste time on someone who wastes time making an account.
No, im right.
I know it's drive you and many others crazy that you, or at least your children, than their children and so one will serve China.
Take it easy. It's just China's destiny to rule all under heaven.
And you barbarians will obey China's righteous rule or suffer like the Tibetans or Uighurs do.
Thing is, things move in cycles. Sure, China might be on top eventually. And then they will collapse (again) and someone else will take the top spot. No empire lasts forever. And when they collapse, it happens in the proverbial blink of an eye.
Personally, my vote goes to Germany or Japan for the next great "free" nation. And the next great world-changing revolution will be when the moon or mars colonists declare independence. ;)
Germany or Japan? Honestly? Both countries are comparatively small with high living costs and Japan has a dwindling population. I don't expect either of those to dethrone America anytime soon... or ever, really.
If you can survive your own pollution holocaust... that is...
lulz! +60
Effort! +40
these images look pretty impressive
looks like you could film a Hokuto No Ken movie there
^^ This.
Someone make it happen!
Wow, those are awesome quality photos. This man should work for National Geographic.
But on another note China is also having a major problem with sand/dust storms lately; with as much as 1/4 of the country affected by desertification due to unsustainable farming techniques. So they are goin through what the US did during the Dust Bowl.
Just goes to show that progress has consequences and should be done with the utmost care.
Now this is 3D pig ugly . . .
Ironically, it looks a lot like certain anime come to life.
They should change their birth rate policy to zero child. No future generation will be able to survive there anyway.
Real life Biohazard... Oh man :(
This is an attempt to artificially evolve the Chinese People.
The Chinese government under the control of the Shadow Llama, the Dalai Llamas evil twin are poisoning the countryside to breed generations of chinese immune to all of the toxic crap in their environment.
What we think are deadly biological weapons and nerve gas would give the evolved chinese little more than a summer cold.
Full scale nuclear war? The nuke would kill everyone in the blast zone, but the radiation wouldn't have any effect on the rest of the population...it might actually cure the diseases they contracted from brushing their teeth with chinese toothpaste.
Does anyone else think that the zombie apocalypse will begin in china?
Egadez man you may be onto something!!!
Max Brooks apparently did.
i guess i shouldt be saying this but the first picture are so cool! like from a movie
Cool in a really disgusting way, yeah. Those photos are so beautiful and oddly surreal, I can't help but appreciate them in an artistic way.
Indeed, if they aren't shopped at all, the photographer is simply incredible...
I mean c'mon...who didn't expect this at all? History has shown us the cost of idustrialization to the environment(then again there are reasons why some people are called hypocrites and the term double standards step in). Granted that this seems worse than when the UK industrial age, but given the size of China and how the foriegn market capitalizes on cheap labour there. You'd have to be pretty out of touch with economic know-how to not see this happening.
What I'd like to know is if the foreign market moves to India (or whatever country) and starts outsourcing elsewhere; how long will it be till we see similar problems over there? I'd say give or take 20-40 years?
You are from those who see the Truth! And it's not only China's problem as many home puppies thinking. It's actually problem of the whole world's economics and natural environment.
China is fucked, they have about a billion more people than than can sustainably live at the level they are trying to achieve. Even the U.S. probably already has too many people.
China, human rights and nature protection doesn't seem to fit together... The industries there seem to forget all the natural disasters which are the fault of humans ruining nature.
癖ばか
I feel like playing Fallout now....>_>
all the beauty of china being destroyed by capitalistic pricks
Don't worry Fonzer a list of wealthiest people in china are largely the children of Communist party members or members themselves. Save up for a BMW and join the revolution.
The the party is still very much alive in China, just be sure you can pay the cover charge at the door.
Can't wait for vacation time!
I hate to say this, but now i'm damned sure that the bacteria cloud from Masamune Shirow's original Dominion series. Will become real and will originate from China. I am really getting a good image of the apocalyptic future we might be having after all.
reminds me of Fallout 3
Yeah... Me too...
That's just sad. >_>
Wow makes you wonder about your country's own dirty little secret.Like many have said already this is disgusting no living creature should live in these conditions.
Water connects to ocean.
Fun times I had there.
I shall never return now.
Sorry guys.
Just been informed, this article has been mis-titled.
It should have been "Exclusive First Screenshots of Fallout 4"
hehe....
wow just wow
Surprised the photographer isn't being hung as we speak
Perhaps the greater tragedy is- no one cares.
Their crapholes, they can clean it!
Yeah, I don't think this is really news anymore, it's been like this for QUITE a while.
This is why China needs to be bombed back to rikshaws. You kill the earth we should kill you. END
You do realize the majority of the damge to the Earth was by us Westerners right? It's only now that we say 'Oops, our bad. Let's not let anyone else go through what we did and point fingers since we already done plenty damage already'.
Double standards are a plenty no?
While this is partially true , it is also a relatively generalized statement. Yes a good deal of the pollution in the world was caused by developing nations years ago. But since then they have wised up and started to try to fix things.
But what this is about is how a "Modern" nation is repeating the mistakes made by other nations in the past and taking them to new extremes. Approximately 1/4 of China is now a desert due to unsustainable farming. Beijing is being ravaged by dust storms and entire Northern Cities have been buried beneath the sands.
They are polluting at an alarming rate and don't seem to concerned with runoff or the dangers to there citizens. There building codes are abysmal which can be seen in stories here, as are the horrid sanitary conditions of rural China.
Now yes China is a large country with alot of people, and more than one dialect; thus making governing and adding all the people difficult. However the government doesn't seem to be worried about it's people as much as it is in becoming a supper power.
Damn this was supposed to be a reply to
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OK, that's odd, it fixed itself, stupid reply button
Chinese people smell like wet rice.
This is why I think China will be gone way before the US.
"Man cannot gain anything without first sacrificing something else. To obtain anything, something of equal value must be lost."
Get moneyz kill all life.Sounds fair to me.
The 'War on Terror' a perfect example?
That is terrifying
I guess we have no need for nuclear war since we have china to do the job for us.
What's the source?
China is large, but toxicating their soil to that point as in the pictures is insane. The polluted areas will expand through soil and groundwater. Sometimes I'm not even sure do they really understand the hazards of continuing such blatant disregard of their own environment.
All this to satisfy the wants of the American consumer.
Umn, if I think of the bad quality of the most chinese products you can't really call it "statify".
Yet pretty much every household in the world owns a 'Made in China' product somewhere and has no problem with it. It's a fact that majority of those people have no problems with them. Most cases of shoddy China products are in China or Asia itself ironically.
Guess you don't buy things period.
Try living off of made in USA products. See how much selection you get and how long your wallet will last.
I don't own anything made in china so... Most things are made in india or my own country.
I now know were i'm going for my next vacation.
This is the shit that my teachers and random adults tell me and the youth of my nation every day to be thankful for not having! But do they even know!? Why should they talk so big about the shit they barely even understand, did anyone see that dead guy?(or at least what was freaking left of him) But hey, so it sucks in some places over there, i don't care! i gotta take cold showers every mornin!( got ass loads of siblings, they wake up b4 me and get all the hawt water!) i have to dress nicefully so all the kids at my school won't call me a loser! i gotta deal with all this fucking drama! stacie and ryan didn't use a condum a couple months ago, nao ryans thinking of runnin off to canada and livin with his uncle! and the school lunch! absolute garbage, i'd rather have the shit their eating over there anyday! and my skateboard just broke! so i gotta take that nice heated bus every where i go! NOT! warm busses smell horible and make me sick!those people should be thankful for the shit they have! lifes hell here im tellin ya
wow what a typical teenage emo reply. Nothing but bitching about your life that no one gives a damn about.
"There is no dark side of China really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
America the Beautiful:
Tennessee Coal Ash Disaster
http://blockstreetandbuilding.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/d0dae3d3-f1ed-4a01-b7e2-c1f5ffa08a38.jpg
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-01-02-TVAkids1.jpg
Exxon Valdez
http://naturescrusaders.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/exxon-valdez2.jpg
http://gliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/exxon-valdez-spill-007.jpg
Cuyahoga River
http://www.epa.gov/region5/news/features/images/FrandAc04.jpg
(And you thought water doesn't burn?)
River now after the Clean Water Act of 1972:
http://www.epa.gov/region5/news/features/cuyahoga40th.html
So give China 30 yrs and they might clean up their act too?
30 yrs you say A modern nation that has not learned from the pasts of other nations and continues to repeat their offenses to a greater degree. This should not be happening the government should know better and you know what they do but they do not care about the lives of their citizens. They allow this crap to continue because of their own greed.
people say that they are moving to become a green nation well thats a load of bullshit they did that for the Olympics but what happened after that well they went back to business as usual.
Know what chinas biggest problem that they are having dust bowls know who had them in the past? America know what they did? we fixed it why because we (the govenment) knew it was doing more harm to the country then the good the farming was giving us for that short time.
But still it shows THESE S*CKS bigtime... xD
just nuke it all, I don't want to see any more
Nuke it from orbit, its the only way to be sure.
Nuke the whole world while you're at it.
Ah poor China ;3;
Wow reading these comments here never fail to amaze me. The level of ignorance is simply ridiculous. I love how there isn't a real discussion here; it's just a bash fest with who can come up with the most inane comment.
Yes we all should know, even before seeing such pictures, that China has rather filthy environmental practices. It's an unwanted consequence of fast growth. It goes without saying though, any other major industrialized country went through the same thing. Children stuffed into sweatshops and coal soot covered UK during much of their industrialization. Fastforward two centuries later where the almighty USofA (and not to mention Canada) still dump untreated raw sewage into the oceans.
Secondly, if anything, you'd stop drinking from plastic bottles, and do your part to cut down your wastes. All the bajillion tons of computers and electronics we collective get rid of everyday go somewhere- and more often than not, it ends up in places like China and India. The bottomline: We're all contributing to the pollution.
Not condoning nor am I defending what China's is doing. But take what you will from what I said.
Did I just saw the Grey Hulk there?
Kididng aside, I think there are lots of countries having this dilemma esp those with nuclear power plants. And up to now, there's still many problems in how to properly dispose nuclear waste.
things wont look so bad without the altering of the color of the pics.
Well, it appears that parts of China hold a ripe amount of pre-historic dinosaur fossils and will soon hold a ripe amount of human fossils as every one is going to die there because of the pollution. So, far into the future whatever life form pops up to study the area will only find poisonous debris.
I wonder if those Russian role players would be willing to use active waste dumps for their Fallout LARPs.
this stuff has happened everywhere.
even in the USA, Japan, Europe, any place that is fully developed has had this happen before already. this is not new.
its just in this time and age, china is growing, and the internet is more accessible than it was in the past. news like this spreads faster than before.
i prefear the dark side of the moon with momento mori =3
Oh that's my favorite Pink Floyd album.... lol =P Did you ever try watchin it with Wizard of Oz? It totally goes together, it's nuts.
I bet Zhuge Liang never predicted this :P
You know I've seen Zhuge Liang referenced 4 times in 8 days. Well this makes it 5 haha.
LOL, at China quality.
Seriously though, it's just seems they're going through their own industrial revolution.
Kind of strange people are criticizing this when many Western history books throw heaps of praise over it's own industrial revolution.
Whatever.
True, however we have alot of new tech these days, as well as knowledge of the environmental impact of our actions. Thus the industrial revolutions of the past were fundamentally different than one that should be happening today. People should learn from the mistakes of the past rather than just repeating them.
China doesn't have those techs and doesn't care about the environmental impact because what is important is making sure the 1800-1950 -ish (opium war, colonisation by the west, branded the weak man of asia, civil war + Japanese invasion + civil war etc etc) never happen again.
China wants their revenge.
Its like LOTR, but real.
I saw a disturbing picture Where africans were scavenging a trash dumb landfill outside their village with a boy cracking open a "Department of wildlife" or w/e us agency covers the regulating us pollution.
The Chinese have to copy our lead and dump everything in Africa while preaching about the need for a cleaner planet.
With China's economy they'll be able to foreclose on individual US states and in 120 years they'll mass emigrate to the US, force US citizens to work in toxic hellish conditions. 300 years after that the chinese living in the south will become fudamentalists and start the next crusade.
hmmm, small country, with some of the cheapest labor in the world do to it being massively overpopulated, nah , never would have seen this comming.
Am I the only one that wants to suit up and wander through the wastes?
Strangely enough no. I do too hehe. It just looks too surreal in the pictures not to. Like from a game or anime.
This is the environment where most of America's "goods & services" are coming from. Cheap, it may be, but it's still poison.
if a place has enough garbage to make someone an award winner, then what saves it from being stupid enough to lose much of it's income on pollution alone while being aware of the fact.
What a great photograph. It feels weird to actually appreciate these photos for their artistic values, despite the chocking content. 23 is what you could call my "favorite".
A former factory worker...somebody just found a fitting job.
I'd like everyone to know that most of these pictures are doctored for dramatic effect.
Can china win a noble prize for this??
lol at the 1st pic.
Looks like a scene from Killzone 2. Welcome to Helghan err China.
wow, the first thought I got after looking the first two pictures was that maybe another Matrix movie was coming to theaters xD
welcome to reality.
The first and second picture reminds me of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
That's disgusting. And here I thought their human rights were bad enough
And yet, most Chinese still choose to be apathetic towards such horrors. They're all enjoying the newfound prosperity so much that they refuse to acknowledge ecological destruction. Even when citizens are involved, no serious action is taken. This is a disaster.
The old see the days of the Cultural Revolution as the only other alternative, and so they accept this as a necessary sacrifice. The young take it for granted, having been brought up in this kind of situation. And then there are those who just ignore it, even when it's right in front of them, cause that way its 'more convenient' Ironic, isn't it. for a nation which claims such strong national pride, that they can be so unfeeling to the suffering of their own...
Some of those photos are amazing I must say.
made in china products have blood attached to it.
Take this from someone who actually *lives* in China. (And has lived in Australia, Japan & Hong Kong)
I'm sorry, but some of you coddled white people sit there on your high horse without an utter clue. Those who have actually been to China, feel free to speak as positively or negatively as you like. The simple fact is that a few pictures can tell a rather powerful tale, though not always a fair one. China has some shocking industrial areas (which are usually located in industrial cities, which are cities that are actually created entirely for that purpose and have no real historical background at all). These industrial areas are rapidly improving. When I lived in Northern China (Heilongjiang province) I was not, strange enough, buried by dust, but awed by its beauty. Even Daqing (China's oil capital and a rather shitty industrial city) is not that bad, at all. Certainly not as these pictures depict.
And the photographer has indeed garnered up quite a large amount of respect, here: Deservedly so. I applaud his efforts in creating a greater awareness of pollution in China.
And honestly folks, those who say ridiculous comments like "I DUN KNO WHY DIS GUY HASNT BEEN HUNG IN CHINA LOLZ" have proven themselves to have been subjected to as much conditioning, propaganda and misconceptions as the country you are criticizing. Nay, even more. Your average mainland Chinese person does not yet have the resources to travel around the world like many of you here do. YOU on the other hand, have no excuse for such arrogance.
-Northern China (Heilongjiang province)
-(And has lived in Australia, Japan & Hong Kong)
You probably lived in an area with a relatively high standard of living or an area with relatively low amount of industry.. hence you are not exactly the type of person who would have experienced the negative side of China's growth.. same with a dude traveling to China..
some dude in an earlier post said it pretty well..
'out of sight, out of mind'
So asking you about it would be like asking a middle class black kid born in 1990 and a 65 year old black man about their experiences with racism.
Either way I haven't been to China so I guess my views to you would be irrelevant.. but you cannot argue against statistics..
anyway.. yeah, you'd have to be a real idiot/arrogant to think that all of China is like the pictures shown here, but it doesn't change the fact that quite a number of industrious and rural areas are like this..
the main point of these photos were probably to try and gain international acknowledgment of the fact that China needs to change, and pressure the government to blah blah blah.. and as far as I know the government is changing their stance..
that's a good thing isn't it?
I stopped reading at "coddled white people"
Hey its not like all us American's can just hop on a goddamn plane and go over there to help out with that shit. We need something called money. I've only been to a few other states in the US and only one of them needed a plane, so I'm sorry I'm not as learned about other countries like you are dick. Yeah and you talk about us being on high horses.
China is a pretty dirty place though. Even in the "high-end" cities the water is disgusting to drink, and even in restaurants the first thing people do is clean every single utensil even if it was sealed.
arrogant white bastards , yet you chose to live with arrogant bastards rather then going back to china?
Haha, for a moment there i thought i was looking at some fallout 3 gameplay footage.
Yeah. Looks like video game concept art.
Haha, was thinking the same thing too..
oh man. that is just wrong. China becomes more destruction than every country on Earth. this is bad.
Makes me imagine that the China in the fallout world is a much cleaner place. Even with all the radiation.
Well, okay. White people and those who imitate them come into China, and repeatedly tell China that she's worthless, because all she ever did was cling to her old ways and never made scientific and industrial progress. She was happy regardless of the periodic turmoil and regime changes. At least they were regulated and sustainable; wars cause people to die, famines cause people to die, but all these things had their ways of working out.
But then came the "Enlightened" Westerners with their technology. Sure, they were faster and stronger. Sure the medicines cured a LOT of diseases, but what is the price to pay for such innovations?
Other societies just push, and push, and constantly tell China that she's inferior.
Well, this perverse destruction of the environment is an attempt to catch up and keep up, like steroids with athletes.
At what cost do we pay to keep fulfilling everyone's expectations?
FREE TIBET YOU DICKS!!!!!!
Thanks to China, Tibet is free since 1950 and a bit more since 1959.
Are you retarded?
Yeah, but you see that would make China more of a hypocrite to itself than it already is to the world. Communism? HA. What happened to class struggle? Oh, I forgot, the leader of China is a member of the bourgeoisie.
China keeps Tibet to assure itself that it's still great and powerful, much like how America still hasn't let Hawai'i and all the other states run away without Federal interference. American tactic is that they'll go to other peoples' lands, and submit a petition to include those lands as a part of the United States and justify that petition saying "We actually improved these lands, even though it's not ours- it's better in our hands, and that's why it belongs to us- it OUGHT to belong to us." Americans call it Manifest Destiny. That's the same policy China has with "One China" Rather than with the Han ethnicity, Beijing tries its best to either manipulate, formulate, or blatantly lie about the relationship the central government and the Han people have with other peoples residing in mainland China.
If China frees Tibet, they'd have to free the Uighurs, Mongols, Manchurians, all the other people who're tired of Bejing's policies, including Hong Kong (who can prosper by itself a la singapore), and might as well recognize that Taiwan has a winning chance as a valid contender in dominating Chinese politics.
So fat chance that China'll free Tibet, much like how Hawai'i does not have a great chance in re-declaring itself as a Monarchy prior to American imperialism. And China has the largest army in the world.
You're don't really have anything to worry. They're people too. They just need to wait a while until they get sick of the government and will probably try to overthrow it or use terrorism.
You might want to study the history of China's government before you go and blame the rest of the World. Of course if you live in China good luck trying to study that as you'll probably be arrested or you'll only get books that contain little to no fact in them because they don't want you to know the truth.
How are you so certain that everyone else outside of China isn't as biased or prejudiced when considering Chinese history? Of course, you're right- Chinese view of history is a communist view of history. China didn't invade Tibet, China "Liberated" Tibet. That doesn't change that there are still a lot of influential thinkers who have credibility in institutes of education that are willing to portray China as a victim of Imperialism, most likely because those said thinkers are sympathetic to socialist causes, much like how in the early 20th century, thinkers were closely aligned with nationalism, thus the constant wars then and prior that century, more specially in Europe.
At the top level of academia is just a bunch of opinions that get selected based on how convincing that opinion is, not necessarily how it really is close to the truth. So I was kinda disillusioned as to how what we know about things are the result of petty politics and popularity contests at universities.
The truth has been that it's all about White People being dicks, not the rest of the world. If anything, I think Black people have been fucked up the ass worse than the Chinese.
The cultural revolution is why China was deemed worthless. That is just the biggest epic fail. All that thousands of years of culture destroyed. Just so sad. China is slowly, slowly starting to realize this grave error while at the same time trying hard not to make the same mistakes of the U.S.S.R.
It is not the west that has expectations of China rather than the Chinese government has for it's 'status' in the world. They want to be the best and brightest at the cost of her own people. They want to be the most powerful and glorious at the cost of her environment and freedom. China wants to beat every other industrialized nation on the planet, yet due to shortcuts, ignorance of effects, and pure greed, she will ultimately fail in this regard. Even Confucius realized that without the people, there is no country. The Chinese have forgotten this sage advice.
When a small person sees a big person, they'll try to emulate that to be like them.
Could Chinese policies be the result of its impressions of countries it considers greater than itself?
I dunno. Maybe China DOES know about the consequences, but is willing to cast a blind eye for the sake of trying to catch up.
Because once they do catch up, the rest of the world will become their trash dump.
A small sacrifice now for a great reward later.
I remembered Half Life 2.
There are wastelands in my country too.
But not as bad as this.
Yuck!
I hope people realize USA, Canada and even Japan have gone through the same things when they were developing.
Japan has the Minamata Disease, Canada has Fort Mac and I don't even need to give an example about the USA.
Can this be copied to a site where I can send the link to friends and such, cause I want them to see how bad this stuff is in China.. without the questions as to what else is on the site from friends and family..
Germany is like Japan a rapid aging and soon declining country. And much worser, Germany together with (West) Europa suffers from Islamisation year for year. In a few decades they will be part of the Islamic World.
And Japan...heh, China's gouverment and people have it's own thoughts how Japan's future will be. America can't protect it's servent forever.
No. China will rule. It's heavens decision. 5000 years of Chinese existence prove this.
Fabulous photography
What website are the pictures from? I'd like a link so I can reference it.
The End is inevitable jejejejeje
If you take out the cost it would take to clean up all of the environment and get cleaner technologies then China's actual GDP growth is closer to 0.5%. They will eventually have to spend enormous amounts of money to fix their dams, clean rivers, etc. The north of China is practically a desert now and their projects to divert water up there cost to much and the water is coming from level 5 (the max) polluted waters.
Sankaku Complex - Anime, manga, games, and anti-Chinese propaganda observed from Japan
Why does Sankaku feel the need to associate our culture with something so unrelated?
why are you here in sankaku?
Obviously to Masturbate. DUH. WHY ARE WE IN THE INTERNET IF NOT TO BLOW OUR WADS?
LMAO +1
OH OHHHH POLLUTIOOONN FAP FAP FAPPPPPPPP!!
Because it is a Japanese blog, and it must have anti feminazi, Pro-Neet and anti-Japan propaganda
>Why does Sankaku feel the need to associate our culture with something so unrelated?
>unrelated?
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Hm... Something doesn't compute.
'Cause bashing China with misconceptions and ignorance is fun!!
China is slowing becoming an industrial wasteland
At least they didn't permit Nuclear bomb testing on their soil like my country.
Look up lop nor on wikipedia China's last nuclear test was in 1996. Go there yourself and see how many tumors you grow.
China looks like something out of Mad Max with all that pollution.
Where's Captain Planet where you need him?
I looked on the back of my Captain Planet Figure and it seems he was made in China. He does not take kindly to people like you slandering the Peoples Republic. Watch your back dude.
Wow, when I saw the first pic, at first I thought it was a 3D landscape from Fallout..
Holy shit! China is #1 fucked in the whole world!
that a very nice setting to film fallout 3 the movie
fallout 3 in LA version XD
wow.... aftermath of too much "Industrial Boom"
thats horrible
This is idiotic. Japan, Canada, USA and any other industrialized country have areas that are as ruined as this.
I love japanese culture, but putting down china as if japan were the campion of ecology (said nowhere, but i know artefacts posts) is just too far from reality to overlook.
Watch arjuna and weep. The poor series doesn't even take the cellphone phenomena into account.
this are all inevitable effect from industrialization.
cause and effect. whole cycle
make money by sacrificing the land environment for their GPD >> then spent it on military and development >> then when the pollution become too much to bear >> then start on environment clean up with the left over money >>
You forgot the part where they use the military to invade somewhere with less pollution for their citizens to live and force the prisoners and citizens of their occupied territories to work in the Chinese wastelands.
It makes absolutely perfect sense. I'd call it genius, but since it is such and obvious strategy I'll refrain this time.
that is really messed up. ecoterroristfags need to get up in there.
I'd totally film a sci-fi/post-apocalyptic movie there.
Holy sh*t
Well... looking the pictures looks like China is still a child compared to USA and other countries.
Huge polluter there? Battery manufacturers... particularly the ones who make the types used in Priuses... The Prius' dirty secret - before it drives a single mile, it's created more polution than a Escalade produces in 100000 miles including production polution.
Buy a Prius, make a couple Chinese flipper babies!
GOOD JOB HIPPIES!
Man China is fucked up even more now.............
chore : "Teenage mutant ninja panda!
Teenage mutant ninja panda!
... "
Ah yes China, if they replace US and Europe as dominant economical powers, 99% of the world would be like this
Rare tub girl sighting at #12!
It looks just like fucking fallout its scary.
Prepare your "chinese Assault rifle" guys, i think i saw super mutant in these pictures
"Why play your favorite post-apocalyptic games? Live them now!!! Visit China today!"
New tourism campaign for the good ol' People's Republic?
CHINA SUCKS!!!
Well in another 10 or 20 years elite class will make more money and flee the land of the dead. They will go to Canada or US and enjoy quality life. The rest of China will be isolated put in to a space ship and launched in to the sun for recycling.
THIS
IS
CHINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Tonite we'll dine in toxic waste!
That looks like a good place for Hollywood to film a Fallout movie.
Ah, the sweet ol' backside of globalization and industrialization.
i really wish those photos would be photoshoped
My piss- & shit-filled toilet is 1,000,000,000,000 times cleaner than that place!
that is definitely Photoshopped
ooowwwww....
fuck china...
Are those pictures actually real? If so, i dont give a shit what kind of excuse China is going to give but this stuffs will destroy them if they dont stop soon.
OMG!! Fallout meets Oblivious
HA HA HA!! I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT!!!
*adds "massive industrial pollution" to Destroy China list. . .
我们国家人口太多 贫富相差很悬殊
Well, i somewhere a saw a nice diagramm showing that in which stages of industrial development are Asian countries.
Obviously, Japan is the most-developped which means they now fund into other countries with their money and high level technology. SKorea is the next, ountries like Malaysia are in the middle, and China.... is the most back. They are at the stage of bulding up heavy industries, which is not a bad thing, all, now developped countries did this, but:
1. They are simply huge.
2. They should adopt envimoremtn-safe technologies, which are pretty much avalible nowadays.
2. They are communists, tehy dont give a fuck about nature and people.
To say a 'good' point, England (others too but they were fist) had this too in the 18th century - remember those drawings in your historybbook? Black skies, child labour, 18hr work-days?
looks like a post-apocalyptic world
What da fuck china.
Green Kow! tenenenenenenene.....Green Kow! Holy Jamoly Kowman!
As China becomes more developed, the world moves one step closer to self destruction.
In the past the western nations are the main culprits of global warming, with China n India economic rising, suddenly you have another billion of people adding to the greenhouse, welcome my friend to world destruction.
forgot to add
it takes China n India less than 20 years to achieve what the western nations took almost a whole century, so the impact on our environment is more massive and within a much shorter time frame