Even as she chokes herself to death under the biggest and most toxic shroud of smog in history, China has won some admirers for the ethereal quality of scenery she now offers those brave enough to chance their lungs to see.
Canned air and stylish air filters are amongst the latest innovations to grace Chinese markets, although with the air merely coming from elsewhere in China and the masks being made in China, there may be some reasonable doubts as to the efficacy of either:
Official Chinese statistics suggest some 600,000,000 Chinese were affected by air pollution in January alone, with the toxic cloud covering a quarter of the nation.
According to estimates published by one Chinese paper, air pollution will kill 300,000 Chinese this year, and hospitalise a further 600,000 – a toll which may paradoxically only add to China’s impressive growth rates, as expenditures on treatments and efforts to mitigate pollution are liable to be counted as additions to GDP.
Even neighbouring Japan is not safe – the cloud now extends over the entirety of Kyushu, and cities there have been forced to begin monitoring air quality and issuing health advisories:
Scuba tank anyone?
masks, masks everywhere
China = Fail
I think Al Gore is complaining to the wrong country about global warming.
This is all a plot to indirectly attack Japan through pollution, in hopes of dwindling their population more and take over the islands!
#31, lol photobomb.
poor loli @ pic28
;-;
i mean 38
thank god my country is nowhere near China… but if we let them do what they want maybe in 100 years the smog would cover half the world!
FFS China, do something about it.
It’s like in the PSX Spider-Man game.
Reminds me of Spiderman 64.
I’m glad that I didn’t take Chinese. It’s kind of useless now.
Just wait for people to start calling it a “biological attack” as an excuse to ACTUALY attack
Leave it to the chinese to not only smoke themselves but also the japanese out. Honestly these Chinese need to get a reality check, this is just plain terrorism towards japan.
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Damn, Osaka, you dirty!
China is doing this for a reason.
They want to create enough smog so that it will reach Japan and asphyxiate the Japanese.
It’s a great strategy, it’s subtle. And China has enough people to not even care about casualties if this way they can damage Japan.
Not that much different from Blade Runner =)
so… is it flammable? we have this over in america too, only it’s called fog.
Everyone grab their Ra-Seru. Time to attack the mist generators!
Hmm, the pink reminds me of the end in “Mad Max; Beyond Thunderdome”… Too tired to start going “We don’t need another hero” with the non-PC R/L flipped….
Those landscapes remind me a lot one mission of halo reach!
Good luck filtering out the NO2, SO2, and CO with your ‘Made in China’ quality paper masks. They’re all gonna die…
Europe had the Black Plague, North America had Smallpox, now China (and soon India) has the Death Fog. Lets see if they learn from it. PLACE YOUR BETS!!!!
There’s nothing to be afraid of. Except that fog that turns people inside out.
The question now should be does it explode if you light a match?
The question is, does it explode “just because”?
Because I’m pretty sure that stuff would explode if you could light a match in it (but it’s probably so toxic and so dense that you can’t).
China: where warhammer 40k meets reality
especially nurglite death worlds
The canned air should have the picture of President Skroob from Spaceballs on them.
I’m the only one who thinks in The Jetsons?
In this case would be The Chinksons
Meet Xing Chinkson…
His Boy Yi-Jie…
Daughter Shui…
Nian his wife.
Scumbag China.
Well the irony here is Scumbag “1st World Countries”. Since majority of China’s pollution come from our factories. Somone has to take the dive for environmental so we can get cheap shit and lots of it. If it’s not China it’ll be India.
This is actually one of the DLC stages of Bioshock Infinite.
I’m sure that Mexico City is gonna be just like china very. There’s a lot of pollution here too.
You guys should check the midnight channel!
Scary stuff. This looks like something you would see in a science fiction movie or novel…
Remember when Ross Perot talked of a sucking sound about trade agreements he was right about there being a soundm but it’s the sound of pollution spewing forth into the world vs a sucking sound.
Holy shit, they have some serious pollution issues! o_o They really need to start taking the problem seriously and DO SOMETHING before they all end up dead! -_-
Yes, because if one country is concerned about their effects on the environment, it’s China..
Ye, well, they’ll regret it sooner or later if they don’t…
Blade Runner @ China quality = Total madness!
Btw, only 300k will die from it? AMAZING!
its a biological weapon they created for unsuspecting Japanese lol
The night skyline photos remind me of the hornet level in Halo Reach.
passive aggressive chemical warfare lolz.
I guess all this breathing air thing throughout my life has made me kinda soft.
air…soft?
suddenly silent hill
Too bad it wasn’t poisonous gas and killed most of them off.
Coincidence that I’m in the middle of a game in Persona 4? (which involves fog that eventually gets as dense as the above pollution)
Patchouli would die if she went there.
So china is silent hill?
The smog in China is now so bad it’s actually far in excess of the international scale for air pollution. It’s far worse than a forest fire, for example, and is beyond the final category of ‘very harmful to all people’.
This is the price of expansion at all costs. Think before you build, or you get this.
Canned air? We Space Balls now?
Can’t tell if this is good news or bad news.
What the fuck China? that is some class 10 smog you got there.
`Isnt this how the Jetsons started?
Well, if Americans and Japanese are so worried about the air quality in China, maybe they want all the stinking factories they’ve “outsourced” to China back?
Or maybe they’d prefer to have stronger environmental protection, workers’ rights and whatever in China and in exchange pay twice as much for their shiny new tvs, computers and iPhones?
Damned bigots.
I’m sure I’m not alone when I say, yes I do want our factories back. The city I live in has seriously suffered after the factories went overseas.
No matter what direction you look when your downtown there is no less than one visible factory building (now in disrepair and falling apart). These are not small factories either, they each employed hundreds of thousands of workers.
When those factories began to move out of the country, and don’t fool yourself it was far from gradual. Our crime rate skyrocketed, in just a couple years time we went from one of the safest cities to live in to one of the most dangerous. The eastern side of the city is where a lot of workers lived, now it’s where the most vacant (and dilapidated) houses are.
If I were to show you before and after pictures, you would seriously accuse me of altering the pictures. It was that devastating of a blow that we never recovered from it, constantly in decline ever since.
In lieu of what’s happening in China I see why they left. They wanted to boost their profits by moving factories to a country that has much less strict environmental laws. But they’re a bunch of morons for this move, because it was the pay we got from working at those factories that allowed us to keep buying the newest shiny thing for such a long period of time.
wow so fluffy, its like you are in heaven
fap at pic 32
Let the Skyfall…
as minami minegishi’s shiny forehead reflects a glare onto chopper pilots, causing them to crash into buildings.
Sounds like a genocide.
And there some people who think that greenpeace is useless…
maybe now china’s own EPA will actually do something
china has an EPA?
wouldn’t it be more like EDA?
reminds me of 90s mexico city
China, the IRL Silent Hill
The conservatives’ no-regulation wet dream for reals!
With China’s exploding this and that, pillows made from trash, etc, etc, it’s kinda frightening to think what the haze might be actually composed of…..
Guessing China’s cancer rates are gonna spike.
Why does government think they have the right to take away most basic of resources from humans? Why does their president think he deserves to live after allowing that?
If you agree, I’m all year to hear your offer on how much you would pay me to assasinate him
The real question is, why does government sit idly by and let corporations take these most basic of resources for their own profit and everyone else’s detriment?
Damn it, I was enjoying the fresh mountain air here in Central Japan (which gets surprisingly rural when you get close to Takayama and Nagano) and now I gotta deal with this shit. As if the farmers burning their fields year round wasn’t bad enough for my lungs.
China has become the Otherworld
they’ve already “became” a second world decades ago
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time,
like tears in rain…
Time to die…
I think I saw Pyramid head in one of the pics…oh wait…that just a street peddler wearing a helmet with a huge ass butcher knife.
…oh wait…
only he’s wearing a street cone on his head and wielding a bread knife – he’s a bootleg after all
China bootlegs even Pyramid Head.
Nothing can escape the counterfeiting machine!
Absolutely magnificent, absolutely the most fantastic news from China yet.
Anyone else thought of Persona 4?
The smog is caused by the shadow realm, and because the Chinese main character and party were probably imprisoned or re-educated, they failed to stop the shadows. Now it’s about to devour China and the world sooner or later.
Unless Yu Narukami travels to China, jumps in a Chinese TV and fixes this mess, we’re finished.
Pic 22 is priceless. It’s like she’s 20,000 feet in the air.
Wonder when are they going to make it like a bubble in Highlander 2 or generators that cleans the air and make all people pay higher taxes to keep it going. Although the smog attracts the tourism for a while but I doubt they´re gonna stay there longer than a week because of the air.
Really? Air? In a soda can?
Just a few more years my fart might worth a fortune there.
Good thing you’ve been saving!
FUUUUUUCCKKK…. i Have asthma i think i would die in China…
And they say California has bad air ! that America is the worlds worst polluter !
This is China’s answer to population control.
The human race……the most intelligent and the most moronic animal on the planet. Proof positive that a little knowledge is dangerous.
Although I find this beautiful. It’s one of the places where I feel I could enjoy it more from my computer chair.
dude i thought they shooting new silent hill movie :p
Did you mean “China’s skies more deadlier than ever”
mist everywhere…just like in FF9.
they better get ready to fight those random encounters when they go out.
Even the sky is made in China. Damn.
Fog?… It’s Persona 4 all over again! The fog will consume us all and everyone will become Shadows! D:
I think we just die, Were the shadows confirmed to be people that were killed?
Not fog. Smog.
in china you must pay to breathe fresh air..
one does not simply breathe fresh air in china
reminds me of Evangelion.. monsters could pop up
I wonder what it tastes like..
“Canned Air” We are one step closer to Spaceballs.
China is a spacesballs kinda place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiabeNR_q0U
Or Dominion.
Dallas? Corben Dallas?
On the bright side, when the majority of mainland China becomes an uninhabitable wasteland, the environmentalists will finally have all the ammunition they need to start making real changes.
China, sacrificing its self so the rest of us can have a better tomorrow!
Except when things start going downhill for them they WILL start invading their neighbours and put a ton of financial pressure on the west.
Our “beloved” Japan will become a district of china… And then manga and anime will sharply decline (it’s unproductive, after all).
Kind of a nice sentiment.
too bad america will be the first to go though.
Sorry white boy.
Nah, we’ll be the first to fall as a power BECAUSE we care about these things, and yet are blind to the stuff that causes it. We’ve been destroying ourselves from within as soon as we began pretending psychiatry is an actual science with anything that actually has any proof as a reason people should be on any mindaltering medication.
Go ahead. Find real science that proves a chemical imbalance to any kind for a person with supposed “ADHD” or “Bipolar” if they actually have done any tests or anything.
You’re bipolar because you get pissed at shit that makes you pissed but are too inept or cowardly to do anything about, and you’re normal when you’re in your comfort zone, because you never adapted to real life and hardship. That’s what bipolar is.
And what people call ADHD I have seen cured, because it was an actual muscle deficiency in the eyes. It is physical. It has nothing to do with chemical. It’s because the children didn’t develop the muscles in their eyes, so it takes exorbitant amounts of energy to concentrate on anything. Go find a kid who throws tantrums all the time and have him try to follow your finger with his eyes and watch closely. They’ll jitter back and forth and he may even fall over and become dizzy. That’s REAL ADHD. It’s purely physical. Everything else is you bore the shit out of the kid and he has something more interesting to do. Plain and simple. Exercise the muscles for a few weeks and they’ll be sitting still in no time.
Wow, HouseLife’s operating thetan levels are off the charts!
Usually I agree with your comments, but I strongly disagree with your view on ADHD
I am somehow offended that you think of ADHD that way, unfortunately my English is not good enough to discuss with you. But you do know, that there’s different types of ADHD, right? Like ADD (they aren’t hyperactive). People with ADD also has trouble concentrating, but don’t, as you say, go around throwing tantrums. Then would you say the hyperactivity just comes from bad parenting? Or isn’t there really something “mental” going on? (I dislike calling ADHD a mental disorder, since the cause of it is, as you deny, lack of certain chemicals in the brain. I’d categorize that as physical).
I do agree with you on your main point, though. We are so bussy trying to find mental disorders, that we completely ignore any other, and probably more easy, solutions out there.
THIS. as a person previously “diagnosed with ADD”, i have to say, there really is no such thing. if there was Die Hard playing in the same room as someone trying to tell you what the best way to rotate crops was, could you honestly tell me that your eye contact would not be on the screen? its simply a way for doctors and RX companies to make easy money by preying on young people, even children, turning them into mindless, cracked out zombies with no original thoughts, mindlessly following orders from the “adults”. since i “against doctors orders” decided to stop taking effexor, aderall, prozac, ritalin and the other ADD/ ADHD meds and “anti-depressants” you could say i have a brighter more positive outlook on life. it still doesn’t stop me from being cynical though.
I’d say if the WORST thing your kid does is run around all the time, or has a hard time focusing on uninteresting things, Man the fuck up and deal with it, they’ll learn how to get through life. what IS going to destroy this nation is parents not being parents to their children, and blaming it on “disorders” and “syndromes”. Next, they’re going to start calling curiosity a disease, and free will a fucking virus. physician and shrink treatment options? get them hopelessly dependent on heavy narcotics, until they’re drooling idiots desperate to do anything you say for that next hit.
WOW,
NEVER HEARD THAT, BUT SEEN IT.
PUT IT IN A PILL SO WE CAN SELL IT.
STUPID QUACK DOCTORS.
LAZY EYE STUNTS BRAIN DEVELOPMENT!
FIX WITH EXERCISE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~! Woot.
triti
You could say America will avert the expected fall BECAUSE they care.
Remember when canned air was just a joke?
Now it’s sadly hilarious.
Actually good business.
Imagine Nestea or Evian selling canned air alongside their bottled water.
A can of air is a little less useful though. At least, when it’s a soda can. I can’t imagine that you would get more than one or two breaths of fresh air out of a can like that.
That’s assuming it’s even fresh air. The canned air factories are probably belching out much of the smog.
It probably has shavings of lead in it too so you’re breathing in lead air >.>
It remind me about Doraemon. May be Japanese will need them.
I’d say it’s sadlarious.
I’d say it’s hilariously sad…
Welcome to Silent Hill
Population: 1 billion.
New Chinese Proverb: “Death can be Beautiful.”
don’t samurai say stuff like that?
“instead of trying to have a beautiful death, you should think about how to live beautifully instead.”
-gin
This is just like the old Dominion manga Masamune Shirow wrote!
All that’s needed are the Tank Police…and the Puma sisters!
That balcony picture reminds me of Yume Nikki
Looks like Resident Evil 6 happened afterall.
the only reason their not showing zombies, is because it IS a top-secret biological weapons test.
once their masks start to react with the smog and explode, they all will look like jaw-less zombies…
Everyone should be able to watch the stars
JSUS china! You walk right by them!
explosive smog
explosive canned air
aka propane
WTF IS THIS, SPACEBALLS??????
also, with the simple addition of flying cars, we will have successfully entered into the setting of the Fifth Element.
China, always looking to the future.
*exploding future
“As Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China, I can assure you and your viewers that there is no air shortage whatsoever in Beijing! Yeah, of course. I’ve heard the same rumor myself. Thanks for calling, and not reversing the charges. Bye!”
*opens up can of Perri-Air*
China has such a surplus of air you can literally see it..
Read in Mel Brooks voice.
Thank you so much for posting it.
My jaw was just… down… and Mel Brooks’ voice was in my head as soon as I saw the words.
China is officially a comedy now. Course it has been already I guess.
They should already start building the second layer of the city above the smog. Then just add some flying cars, androids and voilà, we have cyberpunk.
I admit. This is pretty damn cool yet at the same time sad. But my imagination is just going wild here thorwing all sorts of possible settings this has given.
In b4 chinese Sybil system and psycho pass readings.
Flying cars Not sure. I can see it being a matter of time before they start construction on a second layer.
We’re getting there… did you see DARPA’s very latest walking pet robot?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/02/us-china-pollution-oilcompanies-idUSBRE9110F620130202
Except its China, their flying cars will be made out of trash
And their second layer will collapse on the first.
Like in Deus Ex 3!
I agree OP, make Hengsha already.
I never asked for this, but it’s still cool.
kikokugai world
didn’t they do that in fifth element?
Look like Persona4 to me…
Everyone, summon your Personas!
*shoots himself in the head*
…
…
*dies*
Space Balls (Perri-Air anyone?) although if they have pyramid headed people roaming the streets than that will make interesting news or a mediocre game.
Looks like Silent Hill is taking over
What the Chinese government isn’t telling us is the numerous bodies found hanging on telephone poles!
Yes they did, but they should do it for realz.
@21:53
With their birth rate they kinda need this as a form of population control.
agreed fifth element city them would be cool, anyway its a damn shame that to live to 30+ you probably need a face mask since birth damn dictator and his childish ways
I don’t wanna imagine China Quality Blade Runner.
China Quality Blade Runner is pretty much cyberpunk, every cyborg has a kill switch phrase which randomly triggers.
Why not? Would have even more explosions than a movie directed by Michael Bay.
Just wait until someone anywhere strikes a match.. wait for it..
Some of them look like a concert where someone released too much dry ice
+1
First thing i thought
I can imagine the pirated replicants trying act out their favorite Japanese movie ZombieAss by pooping in the middle of the subway trains and then exploding in a blaze of gory!
>BOOM!<
"What?"
"Oh, don't worry dear tourist customer, that was just yet another flying car exploding and raining deadly shrapnel over innocent pedestrians. So, your grilled spicy chicken is ready, enjoy!"
Just another reason I will never desire to visit China.
” It looked similar yet not close to this I think.”
Those are two ends of the similarity spectrum, it was either ‘similar’ or ‘not close’.. which is it?
It’s the government’s way of controlling the over-population there….by legally slowly poisoning the citizens >.>
Never heard of smog, young anon? You should look for pictures of California around the 70’s-80’s. It looked similar yet not close to this I think.
Why are the skies so cloudy? Is everyone getting high as fuck all at the same time? People will die from AIDS as a result.
Would the world frown at seeing China take over its neighbors? Of course it would. Clearly the better alternative is to infest their land with pollution and literally “smoke them out”!
It’s diabolically clever!
X_X
That fog in the first pics looks so dense you can almost feel as if you could walk/bounce over it.
loooool. china’s stealth attack on japan.
it’s all a part of the plan.
Looks like an average day in Canada, save for the snow.
lmao it’s like in Persona 4.
Reach out to the truth, China!
人间仙境啊.
Feel free to keep *that* paradise to yourself. :p