Wednesday, March 15, 2006
China: The environment is NOT winning this battle
I knew it was bad, but honestly I didn't expect it to be so stunningly trashed out in the area between cities. Think of the worst post-industrial urban blight you've seen, add in new construction to the horizon in every direction, a billion people, smog, trash, sewage, infrastructure... an arid climate and wintertime.
It's really ugly out there.
Scenes from a 2 hour ride on the train. It was like this almost the whole way.
Tianjin at 10 in the morning. Note two things: 1) the amount of wind (flags standing straight out) 2) the skyline obscured by smog. How bad is it on a hot, windless summer day?? The near buildings were 1/4 mile away!
The glass paneled roof of a new railway station. Grime caked on. Looks like it has been there 50 years. This grime creates a unique form of booger. Good pickin!
Open, festering trash all over the place. Farmland is adjacent.
Polluted water, stagnant green in color, riverbanks made of layered trash. More farmland.
It's really ugly out there.
Scenes from a 2 hour ride on the train. It was like this almost the whole way.
Tianjin at 10 in the morning. Note two things: 1) the amount of wind (flags standing straight out) 2) the skyline obscured by smog. How bad is it on a hot, windless summer day?? The near buildings were 1/4 mile away!
The glass paneled roof of a new railway station. Grime caked on. Looks like it has been there 50 years. This grime creates a unique form of booger. Good pickin!
Open, festering trash all over the place. Farmland is adjacent.
Polluted water, stagnant green in color, riverbanks made of layered trash. More farmland.
# posted by Dino @ 1:24 AM 
