Dystopian future is upon us!

Is this an advertisement for science fiction movie about a futuristic dystopia?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540955/Beijing-clouded-smog-way-sunrise-watch-giant-commercial-screens-Tiananmen-Square.html
Oh wait...

 

Yeah, that'll help I could use a projection of the sun myself this time of year.

 

I think that is a beautiful picture. But yeah, the cause/occasion is disturbing. It is the present though, let's hope they shit their pants so much they will go and try to prevent worse.
Although when it is a busy city in a valley with high enough mountains around it will take awhile to get rid of all smog filled days

 

In many ways I think we are deeper in the dystopic than we can realize.

Heh, yeah it is kind of beautiful...something wrong about that.
the beauty of the shot throws off the brain from the full impact of the situation somehow...
kinda like pictures of nuclear testing in the pacific from the 50's and 60's (and 70's) We know the horror, but the beauty of the image strikes us first.

 

Yes, the chinese people are suffering from a wide variety of respiratory illnesses caused by atmospheric pollutants but on the bright side (no pun intended) the economy is doing great :2thumbsup:


hotwater

 

Not to go all hippie on ya, but reminded me of this:

 

China's pollution problems can be partly attributed to environmental laws which have helped to force US companies to move to China where there are no such laws and regulations. The actual pollution problems were never addressed, just moved elsewhere.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOqtvMRo3Cs"]Mercy Mercy Me - Robert Palmer - YouTube

Whoa, oh mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be, no no

Where did all the blue skies go?
Poison is the wind that blows
From the north and south and east

Oh mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be, no no
Oil wasted on the oceans and our seas
Ah, fish full of mercury

Ah-ha, ah mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be, no no
Radiation underground and in the sky
Animals and birds who live nearby all die

Whoa mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be
What about this overcrowded land
How much more abuse from man can she stand?....

 

when the US tries to get other countries like china to ease off on polluting...they look back at our own industrial revolution. they think...why shouldn't their country benefit from that kind of economic growth? the US did...now it's their turn. china and india mostly.

 

The past was never that utopian.

 

that's a big part of it, but its not like the u.s. is setting such a wonderful example for them even now.

nor is that even all of our own (i live in the u.s.) contributions to the problem. by that i mean the problems faced by developing countries.

they need to develop their own solar and renewables industries and cleaner alternative transportation infrastructure, and many of them, to varrying degrees are attempting to, but the u.s. and other western powers are very active in discouraging this, for short sighted self serving interests of their own.

 

No. I don't think utopia exists, for humans. One could argue that the past was much less desirable than today. But smog that blocks the sun? It reminded my of Blade Runner.

 

we are indeed standing on the edge of the distopian abiss right now, and the edge IS crumbling. we are capable of much better, and maybe when we stop getting distracted by illusions from diciplining ourselves better, we will actually do better.

if and when we survive the ass kicking nature owes us for how we've treated it and still are.

 

At least it's better than smog.

 

I'm so fortunate to live on 100+ acres in the middle of nowhere with all my organically grown food, and grassed fed beef.


hungry? brb shooting a deer or catching fish and enjoying the sunsets every morning and stars at night. Had to get away from the city and society.

 

Why would you want to shoot a deer when you have "grassed fed beef"?

 

Yea, we're fuckin this planet up. But you know what i'm confident of is that we can't kill the earth. We'll just fuck it up so much that it kills us, but once we're gone it will eventually repair the damage and fix everything that we've done. Natural selection at it's finest...a species isn't so fit if it intentionally throws it's environment out of the parameters that it can survive in is it?

 

I'm not :mickey:

I know what you mean and I think so too.

Variety?

 

Variety and a couple huge freezers.

 

LOL you must have never heard of fog. This pollution alarmism is obviously a conspiracy by the global elites to control people through fear. And don't get me started on the people who profit from smog hysteria!

You liberals crack me up! You think the solution to everything is more laws and regulations and more government interference. The west should get rid of their regulations... then we would be free and clean like China.