People On This Group Are Sharing Examples Of ‘Urban Hell’ That Look Like A Dystopian Movie But Are Sadly Real (40 Pics)
Not every building is as beautiful as the Palace of Versailles. Or blends into its surroundings as well as the Macallan Distillery. On the contrary, there are many structures across the world looking like outcasts that will fall apart during the next storm. In some places, they aren't isolated examples, either — even an entire neighborhood can be an abomination. And you can find them on r/UrbanHell.
It's a photography subreddit of "all the hideous places human beings built or inhabit." The online community invites everyone who wants to explore the darker side of the cities, towns, and villages in our shared world and welcomes any photos which show either ugliness, or a problem in urban development. Rural and suburban nightmares are also allowed.
Below you will find a collection of pics that perfectly describe what this subreddit is all about.
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The Annual Monsoon Ritual Of Mumbai's Ocean Giving Back What Has Been Dumped In It
If only nature could actually give back all the trash to us, maybe we will see the damage we are doing :(
Hong Kong Street Life
About half of the global population already lives in cities, and by 2050, two-thirds of the world's people are expected to live in urban areas. But as you can see from some of the photos in r/UrbanHell, in cities, two of the most pressing problems facing the world today also come together: poverty and environmental degradation.
Bad urban development isn't just ugly aesthetics. It's also poor air and water quality, insufficient water availability, waste-disposal problems, and high energy consumption, all of which are exacerbated by the increasing population density and demands of urban environments. Strong city planning is essential in managing these and other difficulties as the world's urban areas grow.
New Delhi - During Lockdown vs. Now
For a few months earth took a breath, then humans came back with a vengeance :(
Hong Kong
Beirut Port
Some of the biggest problems caused by urbanization are:
- Intensive urban growth can lead to greater poverty, with local governments unable to provide services for all people;
- Concentrated energy use. It leads to greater air pollution with a significant impact on human health;
- Automobile exhaust produces elevated lead levels in urban air;
- Large volumes of uncollected waste create multiple health hazards;
- Urban development can magnify the risk of environmental hazards such as flash flooding;
- Pollution and physical barriers to root growth promote loss of urban tree cover;
- Animal populations are inhibited by toxic substances, vehicles, and the loss of habitat and food sources.
Uae Nad Al Sheba III Neighborhood
It's Baffling How Fast It Changes
Mumbai, India
yep, that's how Trump likes it. He's in his gold-covered chair, you're dying at his feet.
Trump won't even notice them unless they bring in money into his pocket.
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I have tried 3 times to post something profound but any way you look at it this man is disgusting!
Pretty accurate depiction of the Trump Preferred Way of Life. The obscene opulence for the few, right up against the abject poverty, filth, trash, and utter despair of the many—-on whose backs the fortunes of those few were made, and are still being made. Oh, and rubbing in the noses of the many, to boot. Who TF puts a billboard like this on a street like this, unless they have a callous, insensitive, and patently unfunny sense of humor.
TRUMP SUCKS! This advertisement speaks volumes, nay, TOMES!!! So happy he is no longer our President. We are doing so much better as a nation now, thanks to President Joe Biden. Whether you want to admit it or not. You right wing conservatives KNOW it's the truth, and that Trump is still a bigot, hater, demoralizer, divider of nations...
I was so incredibly sad when he got Covid and didn't die. Hopefully he'll be wiped off this planet before 2024 since it looks like Republicans have decided to take an even bigger low in their views as they want to actually put this abomination back in Office, as if there isn't another Republican who wouldn't be so f*****g dangerous to, not only the States, but the rest of the f*****g world, they could get behind. I mean when the rest of the world laughs at and loathes your Country's dim witted choice, you, and I mean Republicans, and only Republicans, (since the rest of us are not this dense, nor do we have a death wish), know you've truly f****d up
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If life isn’t hard enough, they go and plaster a picture of that c*£k womble on the wall, felling cruel
Yes, looking down on all the little people, completely indifferent. That's the TRUMP way. All that's missing is the "I really don't care" jacket.
Yeah I'm sorry but doesn't India have its own government and organisations , I wish Indians themselves would complain this much about their president maybe that would make a change , the guy is a business man , and street persons always migrate they probably weren't there before when it was put up , he is just advertising just like alcohol companies do , Trump Tower would bring about more job opportunities for the locals thought of that , I'm not defending the man but sometimes don't let one person be a scape goat , yes he was a bad president but there are so many other politicians who have done much worse and still try and hide , India has its OWN GORVENMENT why aren't they handling such crippling poverty but no let trump be the one to take the fall.
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He literally came from poverty and had to sell tea to help his father during school! He's done so much for the people correcting the rot of decades and that's the reason his party increased their total votes from last election by 57 million....that's more than the combined population of Spain and Portugal and 1.9X the votes received by 2nd largest party. Get your news from better sources.
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Just what the world needs a giant billboard of this s**t for brains loser UGH🤮
People in India generally have a very strong work ethic and often work 2 or 3 jobs in order to advance in life. They admire people who have made it and are too busy trying to get ahead themselves to worry about petty First World problems.
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That man is a DEMON. I feel sick and scared for the people who are STILL blindly hanging on his every, demented word. Ask them why. WHY are they inexplicably following this man, voting AGAINST THEMSELVES for this man, trusting this man like he’s some supernatural source of truth and light. Ask them what he’s done to earn their devotion, and they don’t have an answer. They don’t know. Largest most destructive case of mass-hypnosis since Nazi Germany.
I would think the obvious solution would be for humans to quit breeding.
He should have used this picture in his campaign advertisements. it is how he really sees those poorer than him -and most of his followers operate under the delusion that they are not included in that group.
Unlike Biden in Rome with an 85 car caravan to attend the G20 Summit prior to going to the climate change conference in Scotland? Or Kerry jetting around the world in his private plane for 'climate change'? Now that's repulsive.
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Trump didn’t do anything to help anyone and he’s the one that’s gets a billboard and a gold chair while people are dying bc of him! I don’t understand how some people MISSED him as a president! If we had him for another term we would all die!
WTF? Lowest unemployment rate for black people... EVER.
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A billboard of the scum of the earth, sitting above a 'scummy' looking environment seems quite fitting.
Gross ( the situation, the orange headed fool, and the conditions. Not those poor individuals suffering on the street) 😢
Wow if y'all are so worried about this picture of Trump go look at the billboards up all over LA, Cali there are homeless everywhere under billboards of famous rich people everywhere or designer clothing and everything else under the sun and there homeless population is insane compared to lots of places and it's right her in the great USA!
Oh how I love these ignorant comments! Look around, the world has gone to s**t since effing BIDEN took office! Paying almost 5$ at the gas pump! Decrepit old man can't even tell his ass from his elbow! But look around when Trump was president n things were BETTER!! life was good! N before the bashing starts, I'm a woman, I belong to the LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY AND I AM A TRUMP SUPPORTER! BRING ON THE HATE!
That's about right. The most egoic, machiavellian grifter in the universe and everything he represents; gloating in hubris, greed over reality.
Yeah I'm sorry but doesn't India have its own government and organisations , I wish Indians themselves would complain this much about their president maybe that would make a change , the guy is a business man , and street persons always migrate they probably went there before when it was put up , he is just advertising just like alcohol companies do , Trump Tower would bring about more job opportunities for the locals thought of that , I'm not defending the man but sometimes don't let one person be a scape goat , yes he was a bad president but there are so many other politicians who have done much worse and still try and hide , India has its OWN GORVENMENT why aren't they handling such crippling poverty but no let trump be the one to take the fall.
This is b******t ! Look at your present USA LEADER and look at CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS!!!
This has nothing to do with Trump ad… it’s not his country. It’s the government and people of the country that needs to take action!
And what does Trump have to do with that. I bet they had to hunt so they good add a Trump image to that crap.
Think I recall somewhere, sometime hearing the biggest truth bomb out there. Don't believe the hype!!!
Sure. The people who live on the street are exactly what tRUMP wanted.
With any luck, this will soon be "The Trump Way"... 49811706_2...736d42.jpg 
Yeah, we had to live the Trump way for 4 years and it almost killed us.
Assuming you mean Biden, but bidets are good too! I like a clean bum and I hate how we don't have bidets on most of the toilets here!
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The irony in this photo is absolutely, heartbreakingly palpable... and nauseatingly representative of how f-ed up the system of "Haves & Have Nots" is.
Really? The country that embraces the caste system? Arranged marriage? Really?
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Why put a billboard with a picture of trash? Dont they have enough on the street
Oh gosh, Don't read the comments. This thing is filled with trump-hating jerks.
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Such a ridiculous statement. At least when he was in office I could FINALLY afford to spend on myself without feeling guilty! I could bUy gas and go somewhere. I could shop for groceries without worrying if they'd be enough. Now everything is too high for me I'm in my 80's. Bring back TRUMP!
That's why I never want to go back to Mumbai and get my grandparents tf out of there
He looked a hell of a lot thinner back when this photo was taken, maybe Photoshop, I dunno. Still. The irony of poverty on he streets versus his rich lifestyle literally hanging above their heads is pretty strong, guessing this was the main point.
Stop bashing Trump. He is not the reason for this mess. The people who live here are. They are the ones throwing junk in the street.
Go ahead - vote foe him! This is what you will get!! And HIS lifestyle won't change one iota.
That's disgusting.trump a lying cheating draft dodger, is a hero?
Yeah, that fool was our president for four years... Oh, he loves the blue collar workers!
Absolutely DISGUSTING that this pic is real. WTF IS WRONG WOTH THE RICH!?!?
Because Trump didn't put up with immigrants crossing our borders illegally, didn't allow American tax dollars to be spent catering to immigrants that cross our borders, take our jobs, and increase crime rate. Whatever country you live in; whatever conditions your living in, are for your responsibility to rectify. It's not the U. S. fault or responsibility to fix your country. Our streets don't look any better than that photo, it's not all luxury here so find somewhere else to pollute your version of the American dream
The advertising is good, it gives the people a motivation to escape poverty.
THAT'S where 45 will take his future hits. He doesn't realize that HE is the unanimous choice for JerkOfTheEARTH.
That is so sad... Celebrities need to make less money or give the poor more money bc one person with all that money is useless, such a waste. I hate money
How easy it is to point and blame, yet crippled and blind we are to fixing the shame. It is always someone elses problem to repair, so we can wallow in our so loved despair. From our digital soapbox we stand and bark into the digital realm that has no heart. So will you, won't you help cook the bread? Not I said the cat, not a single soul said. Too busy, no money, no time or will. But oh do we love to eat our fill.
Nice picture. Where is the one of the child labor slaves in China in front of a Kaepernick Nike ad?
You want to talk about a picture being worth a thousand words!! This is an entire country in one single photo.
I am ashamed to admit that it took me a few moments of blank staring to completely encompasses the exact magnitude of this photo. After the light bulb 💡 clicked on I was not even shocked by the advertisement placing (for a upper class elites ONLY Trump Tower) that's clearly being built amongst poverty stricken civilians, who aren't even protected from outside elements. With Trumps egotistical self centered logic behind the placement and location of this Trump Tower is just how a person of his status thinks he's ACTUALLY doing these people favors by putting his name on the building and picking the perfect insult for his motto. Children and families are literally living on the streets with nothing more than a blanket and the clothes on their bodies. While watching a building being built that will cost more then it would to provide the people shelter and food. But instead it's advertising and selling a dream that most wouldn't ever dare dream of needing. SMFH
Wow. The perfect dictator tag line. The epitome of "I got mine, Jack!"
Yes. Very Joe Biden. Did you enjoy paying for the wall around his Delaware beach house?
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Grrrrr!!!!! This guy's rich while others are poor?!?!?!?! But Pandas, Beyonce and Jay-Z are rich and they flaunt their wealth at times. Does that make them sinister? Was it sinister for Jay-Z, back in the early '00s, to brag about how he drinks Cristal - one of the most decadently priced champagnes in the world - and to flaunt his wealth time and time again in the late '90s, whilst some children starved to death in the third world? I think Trump is a tool, but c'mon folks, let's not do selective outrage. Some of the wealthiest people who've ever been members of Congress: Jane Harman, John Kerry and Frank Lautenberg - all worth hundreds of millions, plausibly even billions, each a Democratic member of Congress not that long ago.
Except he didnt exact as moneymaker, his father did worked hard and he stolen his. If he's really businessman then why America collapsed out of economy over COVID, Taxes break and housing/marketing soar and why Biden brought his website less than a dollar then turned into Biden's victory and why he robbed his blind followers out of Border Wall's, Military's, Relief's and all funds? Bruh, he's a Con, that's his talent. Oh he got about ten banktupies, so whats that tell you?
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This is repulsive. Not just because the man pictured has proven himself to be every bit as evil as history's worst dictators are suspected of having been, but because he put THIS in THAT location. This is Baron Harkonnen levels of despicable. I could wish him pain as so many have, but at this point I just want him to understand what he has done to this world.
He was a horrible President, but Margaret, have you walked around Manhattan? Downtown Chicago? D.C.? London? Are you going to tell me there was never, say, an ad for Burberry or Armani near areas where some homeless people are? Of course such juxtapositions happen in major cities constantly. Find me the example of a major city where you never have any juxtapositions of rich and poor? Is Armani or Burberry (or any other purveyor of luxury goods) the cause of someone's homelessness b/c their billboard or whatever is conspicuously placed in an urban spot where homeless people are? Is it Armani's fault now that the guy in front of their billboard is homeless?
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I wish that he would move to India, and take all his LIES with him.
You know why he’s laughing?? Tramp I mean!! Because those people down there are probably vendor’s he financially burned to the ground when he stole from them!!
....that's not very nice to tramps, you know. Trump is so despicable we can't put him in anyone's category without grievous insult to anyone or -thing else in that category
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They need to reduce their population. I know it sounds cold and heartless but stop having babies!
The fact that the building itself, in all it's golden facade glory, stands vacant says a lot.
Trump wasn't their president, he shouldn't even have a billboard up in India, especially that one. It rubs people the wrong way. If he put a Hotel up, perhaps he could have set up housing too.
At the way things are going no one wants his name on their buildings. If they do build his hotel maybe the only people who will live there will b e the people on the street.
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BOMBAY! Unless you're a hinudist and nationalist, the city of Bombay still does bear this name. Mumbay also sounds stupid.
The name Mumbai comes from Goddess Mumba. Should Indians honour India's history and culture or care about what names Brits can/can't pronounce?
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I'm so sick of Trump. I wish everyone would just stop talking about him! Let's move on.
Nope. Not until he's rotting in prison.
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Yet here we are. Still squandering our lives and resources taken for granted as we are aware of this but not fully accepting it as a reality.
Please remember, 1 year and almost 4 months ago, this racist, sexist, narcissistic, malignant-sociopathic, morbid, feckless, teeny-tiny jackass and sorry example of one of the worst human being we have ever seen. I truly believe if he could consolidate power yet again, he could out-hitler, and be worse. Remember helsinki? Looked to me like his agenda for the day was "commit treason" day at work. And lest anyone forget, dozens of women came forward with varying claims from harrassment, sexual assault, and rape. And that is only the women who came forward. Many victims are too afraid. And considering he won the presidency; those women did an amazing brave thing. And before i went off venting, he actually planned and carried out a coup, of his own government. Sickening. Stomach churning, and nauseated.
People who live in the streets is a global phenomenon you can see them all over the world and Trump represents the reason why this happens! "It's capitalism your idiot"
If anyone lives near a Trump building, could they please stick this picture to it? Led By Donkeys style...that would be great.
That seems about rot... I mean right... No, wait. I was right the first time.
Hey trump try telling that to the people sleeping below your smug a pompous a$$
Exactly where his picture belongs ~ on a dilapidated building overlooking spilled trash.
Trump wanted to destroy our way of life, because he really wanted to be dictator
Forgot there for a moment that he was also a landlord, hotelier, & self-made intellectual genius!!! !!!NOT!!!
ew him being a landlord makes me hate him even more 🤮
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His greed has no limits. Building on the backs of the poverty stricken people.
All you Trump haters must like high grocery prices, high gas prices, illegals invading our country. Hate is a horrible emotion it will come back to you at some point. Karma.
I think it's interesting how many people here aggressively, willfully, doggedly ignore the undeniable fact that extremely wealthy democrats are in control of many cities in the US that have looked like this for decades. Yet they do nothing but peddle the same exact hatred they pretend to fight, via a media that does nothing but lie on their behalf so they can win more elections and get even wealthier off places that look like this. While they go on insisting they are the tolerant and inclusive ones. You need only look at the comments below, frothing with that same ludicrously hypocritical and self righteous hate to see how successful they've been. 44 likes for a person that wishes a president they don't like dead. But you're the good guys right? Tolerant and inclusive my rear end. I've never in my lifetime seen people more eaten with hate.
This is the most accurate allusion to the mentality of that "conservative" politico I've ever seen. The juxtaposition of what's being said/promised and what is reality is so on point.
highest job creation rate in recorded US history, particularly for blacks and hispanics, military totally replenished from top to bottom, lowest inflation, highest GDP, and now we have the "dementia ridden piece of crap" that gets 13 of our finest killed, a lumber drop goes from $50k to $130k per house, a concrete job goes from $8k to $32K for a basketball court, gas up a dollar, etc.
Oh Sharon run along now. No one's taking those lies here.
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Literally everything that you said about Biden is wrong. If you're going to post such trash you should post sources. And when we see that your sources are Fox News, OAN, and NewsMax, we'll all laugh at you.
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Solutions might include:
- Combat poverty by promoting economic development and job creation;
- Involve local community in local government;
- Reduce air pollution by upgrading energy use and alternative transport systems;
- Create private-public partnerships to provide services such as waste disposal and housing;
- Plant trees and incorporate the care of city green spaces as a key element in urban planning.
Ultimately, cities can bring us obstacles and opportunities as well as freedom and captivity, and it's up to us to get the most out of them.
People Offering Prayers At River Yamuna, India, Which Is Frothing From Industrial Waste
And none of these fools has the sense to even consider that bathing in industrial waste speeds up your reincarnation process.
Hotel In Łodz, Poland
Its not a nuclear cooling tower. It is for a heating, electric and hotwater generating plant ( TETS in Russian) most are coal or gas powered and that is for releasing steam.
An Interesting Perspective I've Stumbled Upon In Macau A Year Ago
The difference between the have's and the have not's, in one photo.
Petare, Venezuela
Before And After A Desert Is Turned Into A Soulless Suburb Of A Desert. Jk, Its A Single Photo Of Arizona
The water waste hurts. Why do you want lawns in a desert? If you want green lawns, move to England (no offense, England. You have the rainfall, is all.)
Not A Very Romantic Scene
Blame your government’s. This is their fault . They buy rubbish from countries and do not dispose of it correctly.
Naples, Italy
People Living Next To A Helicoidal Street In Chongqing
Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. Comparison Of 1964 - 2016.
Electrical Wiring And Water Pipes In A Brazilian Favela
Johannesburg, South Africa
Literally, Just Thanksgiving Traffic In La
Private Houses On The Roof Of An Eight-Story Mall In Zhūzhōu, China
Cairo, Egypt
Downtown Seattle, In The Heart Of The Retail District
I don't understand how the US can have money to make bombers but not to help citizens who need help.
Progressive Insurance's Call Center
Hyderabad, India
Ghost City In China, Made To Be A Replica Of Paris - Tianducheng
All Residents Of Whittier, Alaska Live Inside One Building
Manila, Philippines
One More Lane Will Fix It
In my country the biggest highway is 3 lanes. No city has more than 3 lanes. And we consider it an achievement. I am amazed at this picture honestly!
Somewhere In Brazil In The 90's
@WilvanderHeidjen They absolutely are homeless. They are squatting in a utilities access cabinet.
Baghdad Between Then And Now!
Billionnaire Vijay Mallya's Mansion Atop A Skyscraper In Bangalore, India
The Capital Of California
Dubai, The Hollow City Of Artificiality
Chongqing, China
Mirny In Siberia, Russia
All of those houses and infrastructure was built die to that mine . It’s still a working mine right now . Giving ppl jobs homes lives
Ah, Good Old Car Culture...
This is not an urban nightmare (whichever you're reffering to). Also, it's like comparing a clouds and grapes
Block 23, New Belgrade, Serbia
At least they have friendly neighbours. My neighbor wouldn’t take my washing in . 😆
16-Lane Highway Built Through The Downtown Where A Market Square Used To Be In Moscow, Russia
Again context is great. This was done to facilitate troop movements quickly in and out of the capital which proved vital in WWII as the soldiers from Siberia crossed Red Square in the May Day parades and went straight to the front lines to repel the Nazis. The French similarly built huge boulevards in Paris to facilitate troop movements and to keep people from being able to build barricades, which is a French national tradition.
Nobody: Southwest Us Developers:
Out of curiosity, for what it is, why is it not more square, why all the bends?
Note: this post originally had 75 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes.
We urgently need to take better care of our planet.... Birth control and a ban on plastic sound like a good start
May the gods in all their wisdom give you no children but many attempts at making them :,-)
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Some posts are tragic and a lot are just "I've lived this great life so I can decide anything not idyllyc is hell." Which is just like kicking the terrible photos in the teeth. Urban living has metropolis solutions, which is hardly a hell in most of these photos.
wow ... if you find these few photos "downright terrifying" you need to avoid ANY walkabouts in the USA for the next 50yrs, because that is bound to give you an out-right stroke instantaniously
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So many of these images indicate just how jam-packed our world is becoming, especially cities. The overwhelming problem (and all of the world's problems, including global warming) stem from overpopulation. While the deniers will down-vote me, there's an incredibly eye-opening and brilliantly well written thriller novel called 10:59 by N R Baker that contains so many terrifying facts about this issue. It's not my book, so not a self-promo, but I highly recommend that every human on Earth reads it if our species has any chance of survival.
Better for cities to be jampacked than jungles be ransacked for space.
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A lot of these are not "urban hell", they are poverty and decay hell. And those things don't look prettier in the countryside.
Too many comments from narrow-minded people who pass judgement on a place based on a single photograph and have never seen it in person. You all need to travel more and see for yourself rather than through the lens of someone else's opinion/perspective.
There are pictures here of pollution, homelessness, and poverty. These are important problems we need to fix. But this article seems to suggest that living in apartment buildings and suburban developments are equally bad. People have to live somewhere and holiday traffic is a first world problem. And keep in mind, country dwellers, if we all moved to you, you would end up living in a crowded city.
As someone who's been to multiple 3rd world countries, believe me traffic is not a first world problem. Just looks different.
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Hmmm…. Interesting. Not one of the actual largest slums (all in Asia) but a lot of people judging places they have never been…. Just interesting.
To her fair works did nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. -William Wordsworth
A lot of these images are of one street or location in one city, so it's unfair to judge. Some of the issues raised are not the fault of urbanisation, people have to live somewhere, if not in the cities then where, but down more forward for land? Over population, it's easy to say don't have children when you're in a first world country with health care, social support and child life expectancy is high! What I'm saying is we shouldn't be too quick to judge!
I can think of one very effective way to avoid having children. But the irony is that the places where kids suffer most, are the places where people have the most kids.
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And let’s be frank. We can sit here and discuss how appalled we are, or, we can stand up and do something to make this planet a little better. Just imagine 7 billion random acts of kindness at the same time.
How are a bunch of random acts of kindness going to solve overcrowding and pollution?
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I'm stunned they left off two of the most horrific: the Johannesburg Tower slum (which was supposed to be a modern miracle, but, well), and the Divis Flats in near Belfast in Northern Ireland. Most of the Divis Flats have been torn down (I think the tower is still standing).
I quit after 4 or 5 pictures. It just made me ill to think & see how so many poor people have to survive. AND how so many rich people do live.
Just makes me think more that we don’t enjoy life anymore. Just work and more work.
We just going to continue being gaslighted and go with the lost flow? Elites won't get the fury of justice all we can say it "birth control" "we must take better care of the earth" etc. Really that's all? Force the injection? Never the government that are governed by companies. Never the shells, coca-colas, P&Gs, Nestless? No? We take the blame and the iron first of tyranny but we do nothing. Come on people. This is not conspiracy that ship has sailed this is real scary life realise it becaue your ignorant minds are costing us all on this ONE earth we have.
it’s depressing how many people really think we’re the culprits. brainwashing goes deep. definitely see who’s putting this idea in our heads.
Load More Replies... So all corporate and elite Gov will never be judged as humans we will bare the blame? People, us, are the ones callin on birth control and adding to the maddness to control human life. What about absolute power control? Why cant the monsantos, BP's, Shells, coca-colas, governments, monopolies get the rage of justice???? Why are we so accepting of all this GASLIGHTING? Because conspiracy is too easy of an escape than to admit that it's real life and our HOME Earth is being RUN into the ground by elitists families and close friends. Divided and concurred. Votes continue, consumption continue, we just continue until a brave magician comes and wipes it all away while we just get to sit, relax and watch? STAND UP FOR YOUR SELVES this complacency is killing us all all they do is stack up the bodies. Are we so scared to loose convenience?
I love all the typical BP finger-wagging on this post. I'd like to know how many of you have given up your nice suburban homes and sterilized yourselves to solve the population problem. Or do you just come here to virtue signal and think that suffices?
I feel like this wouldn’t be happening if an entire generation wasn’t so keen on making everyone have kids, even if they didn’t want them
Accurate. Biggest problems are in east Asia and very much India.
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The biggest offenders of urban hell in North America is the endless parking lots in the commercial areas of the suburbs. There is zero sense of community in these car dependent areas. Where do people go to gather and have fun? It's depressing.
Ik this is gonna get downvotes.... but the order and artificiality of some of them bring happiness to my mind. I'm not sure why. I do agree its horrible, i just like looking at it since it's already here.
no that’s fine, outside of the reality of how gross and terrible it is, there’s a pattern that many find calming. kinda reminds me of computer boards.
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All these people need to be able to see things through different people's eyes
I agree with this-cleaning up and taking better care of our home is more urgent than ever now. Because we're very close to the point of no return if not already. I read an article about records in the Arctic circle being shattered. 118 degrees. Sad!!! Our glaciers are nearly wiped out now.
These are all terrifying reality. During the heigh of COVID-19, we saw people at their worst and Mother Nature at her best. The skies were blue again, and crime was down. They lift the quarantine and the skies are brown and crime is like an out take from Purge movies.
Much of what's pictured are buildings that were built decades ago, so how do those somehow foretell our 'dystopian future'? That's actually just our awkward past. Also, how is this all bad? Cubicles? Each person in one is paying their bills that way. Housing? Well we all need that don't we? People hanging clothes to dry on lines between urban buildings? That's classic old NYC type stuff, but actually that's more eco-friendly than using a dryer. Awkward urban design? Well okay, but there's some of that in every city. Pretty stupid listicle.
I thought I had seen all the scars humanity caused. I started crying somewhere in all this misery, and now I can't stop anymore. We did ALL of this, and I'm just so, so ashamed. The fable of Noah and the flood never made sense to me, but now....
These are some amazing photos!! Here I am in the middle of the country in my state. Closest neighbor is 1/4 mile away. I've never lived in a city so it hard for me to relate. But the photos are still amazing!
Time to move back to the countryside and become self-sufficient. Oh, wait! The government overlords don't want you to become independent.
This isn't a recent phenomenon though. Seeing scenes like these over the decades in three continents has made the now graying me grateful I don't live forever. What we're doing, isn't sustainable. Our economic model isn't sustainable. I don't have anything better and can only hope someone out there does. Or I kick the bucket before the brown stuff hit the spinny blades.
Lol all of you please stay in your city squalor! Us living in the mid west be winning with our gardens and land! You voted for this and keep voting for this!
the worst pollution is humans, the world has become trash, both figuratively and literally.
Boston Terrier puppies. 1 male, 5 females. Both parents are on site. This litter is doing very well and all have nice markings. They are getting coordinated, beginning to show personality and beginning to play with their litter mates. Text Or Call +1 303 479 4513 They will be ready to go on soon and will have their 1st shots and well-baby checkup at the vet by then. Please Email Charlse at https://miraclebostonterriers.com/ to see the litter. Update: the male is spoken for, as well as 3 females, so 2 still available.
Mr. Smith from The Matrix had a point in the first movie. Humans are just like a disease. Infecting one area, leaving it dead after it can't serve a purpose anymore, and going off to kill more areas.
Disgusting what humans have done to the planet! And we just sit back and allow our elected twits to just carry on and make the most ridiculous decisions.
I feel extremely privileged to have lived most of my life in central California, Oregon, and now Virginia. I am by no means wealthy, probably close to poverty level. After seeing these pics tho, I feel wealthy beyond my wildest dreams.
Found all the photos interesting and sad. It lets me know that I have it pretty good.
That's. Scary. I think the biggest city I've ever seen is Jackson Mississippi
This post, has been a learning experience, things I was not aware of !!!
My mouth hung open in shock as I looked at these photos. I live on a little farm in Central Wisconsin, USA. I can't see any neighbors. The land is lush, green, peaceful and has a variety of wild animals. I love it here, and after seeing this article, I am so VERY thankful for all my blessings. My farm is called "Bountiful"!
In the late 1960s ZPG became a prominent political movement in the U.S. and parts of Europe, with strong links to environmentalism and feminism. Yale University was a stronghold of the ZPG activists who believed "that a constantly increasing population is responsible for many of our problems: pollution, violence, loss of values and of individual privacy (from Wikipedia) Sound familiar? And we didn't listen...
Manilla, for example, has a population density of far over 100,000 people per square mile. At that population density, the entire Earth could live in a small portion of a single municipality in northern Quebec. People live together because other people offer people opportunity. What you see in the monsoon washback on the Indian coast exists because their socioeconomic development is about where the U.S. was around 1980. And frankly, our trash in the 1980s was pretty damned gross, but we did have more land. And India was where were were in around 1880 not very long ago at all.
So, when are we going to stop pointing fingers and blaming and fighting and correcting and just talking about what needs to change or be done differently and actually start taking action to stop these things? When are we going to stop fighting with each other and being against each other's nations? When are we going to unite as human beings and stop relying on our governments to take care of problems for us? When are we actively going to change this whole world TOGETHER as human kind?
cute notion but our governments made these messes. we need to hold them responsible. boycotting and activism aren’t viable options for a lot of people. alternatives can be expensive, hard to find, or end up being just as problematic because mass production got a hold of it. it’s a complex issue and no amount of peace and love is going to be enough. we need to get our governments in check.
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What this planet really needs is an extinction level event to get rid of all these ugly pink parasites, until the planet's population is back down below 1 billion.
That is disgusting. How could you even say that? You want 6 billion human lives to be taken? Sure, we need to do something about these problems but killing 6 billion people is not the answer.
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The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Humanity's worst enemy is itself.
Not true. Every statistic ever has pointed to the fact that the poor ARE getting richer.
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The planet doesn't have enough resources for everybody in the world to live like we do in the western world.
At least you have that choice. Billions of people don't.
Load More Replies... We urgently need to take better care of our planet.... Birth control and a ban on plastic sound like a good start
May the gods in all their wisdom give you no children but many attempts at making them :,-)
Load More Replies... Some posts are tragic and a lot are just "I've lived this great life so I can decide anything not idyllyc is hell." Which is just like kicking the terrible photos in the teeth. Urban living has metropolis solutions, which is hardly a hell in most of these photos.
wow ... if you find these few photos "downright terrifying" you need to avoid ANY walkabouts in the USA for the next 50yrs, because that is bound to give you an out-right stroke instantaniously
Load More Replies... So many of these images indicate just how jam-packed our world is becoming, especially cities. The overwhelming problem (and all of the world's problems, including global warming) stem from overpopulation. While the deniers will down-vote me, there's an incredibly eye-opening and brilliantly well written thriller novel called 10:59 by N R Baker that contains so many terrifying facts about this issue. It's not my book, so not a self-promo, but I highly recommend that every human on Earth reads it if our species has any chance of survival.
Better for cities to be jampacked than jungles be ransacked for space.
Load More Replies... A lot of these are not "urban hell", they are poverty and decay hell. And those things don't look prettier in the countryside.
Too many comments from narrow-minded people who pass judgement on a place based on a single photograph and have never seen it in person. You all need to travel more and see for yourself rather than through the lens of someone else's opinion/perspective.
There are pictures here of pollution, homelessness, and poverty. These are important problems we need to fix. But this article seems to suggest that living in apartment buildings and suburban developments are equally bad. People have to live somewhere and holiday traffic is a first world problem. And keep in mind, country dwellers, if we all moved to you, you would end up living in a crowded city.
As someone who's been to multiple 3rd world countries, believe me traffic is not a first world problem. Just looks different.
Load More Replies... Hmmm…. Interesting. Not one of the actual largest slums (all in Asia) but a lot of people judging places they have never been…. Just interesting.
To her fair works did nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. -William Wordsworth
A lot of these images are of one street or location in one city, so it's unfair to judge. Some of the issues raised are not the fault of urbanisation, people have to live somewhere, if not in the cities then where, but down more forward for land? Over population, it's easy to say don't have children when you're in a first world country with health care, social support and child life expectancy is high! What I'm saying is we shouldn't be too quick to judge!
I can think of one very effective way to avoid having children. But the irony is that the places where kids suffer most, are the places where people have the most kids.
Load More Replies... And let’s be frank. We can sit here and discuss how appalled we are, or, we can stand up and do something to make this planet a little better. Just imagine 7 billion random acts of kindness at the same time.
How are a bunch of random acts of kindness going to solve overcrowding and pollution?
Load More Replies... I'm stunned they left off two of the most horrific: the Johannesburg Tower slum (which was supposed to be a modern miracle, but, well), and the Divis Flats in near Belfast in Northern Ireland. Most of the Divis Flats have been torn down (I think the tower is still standing).
I quit after 4 or 5 pictures. It just made me ill to think & see how so many poor people have to survive. AND how so many rich people do live.
Just makes me think more that we don’t enjoy life anymore. Just work and more work.
We just going to continue being gaslighted and go with the lost flow? Elites won't get the fury of justice all we can say it "birth control" "we must take better care of the earth" etc. Really that's all? Force the injection? Never the government that are governed by companies. Never the shells, coca-colas, P&Gs, Nestless? No? We take the blame and the iron first of tyranny but we do nothing. Come on people. This is not conspiracy that ship has sailed this is real scary life realise it becaue your ignorant minds are costing us all on this ONE earth we have.
it’s depressing how many people really think we’re the culprits. brainwashing goes deep. definitely see who’s putting this idea in our heads.
Load More Replies... So all corporate and elite Gov will never be judged as humans we will bare the blame? People, us, are the ones callin on birth control and adding to the maddness to control human life. What about absolute power control? Why cant the monsantos, BP's, Shells, coca-colas, governments, monopolies get the rage of justice???? Why are we so accepting of all this GASLIGHTING? Because conspiracy is too easy of an escape than to admit that it's real life and our HOME Earth is being RUN into the ground by elitists families and close friends. Divided and concurred. Votes continue, consumption continue, we just continue until a brave magician comes and wipes it all away while we just get to sit, relax and watch? STAND UP FOR YOUR SELVES this complacency is killing us all all they do is stack up the bodies. Are we so scared to loose convenience?
I love all the typical BP finger-wagging on this post. I'd like to know how many of you have given up your nice suburban homes and sterilized yourselves to solve the population problem. Or do you just come here to virtue signal and think that suffices?
I feel like this wouldn’t be happening if an entire generation wasn’t so keen on making everyone have kids, even if they didn’t want them
Accurate. Biggest problems are in east Asia and very much India.
Load More Replies... The biggest offenders of urban hell in North America is the endless parking lots in the commercial areas of the suburbs. There is zero sense of community in these car dependent areas. Where do people go to gather and have fun? It's depressing.
Ik this is gonna get downvotes.... but the order and artificiality of some of them bring happiness to my mind. I'm not sure why. I do agree its horrible, i just like looking at it since it's already here.
no that’s fine, outside of the reality of how gross and terrible it is, there’s a pattern that many find calming. kinda reminds me of computer boards.
Load More Replies... All these people need to be able to see things through different people's eyes
I agree with this-cleaning up and taking better care of our home is more urgent than ever now. Because we're very close to the point of no return if not already. I read an article about records in the Arctic circle being shattered. 118 degrees. Sad!!! Our glaciers are nearly wiped out now.
These are all terrifying reality. During the heigh of COVID-19, we saw people at their worst and Mother Nature at her best. The skies were blue again, and crime was down. They lift the quarantine and the skies are brown and crime is like an out take from Purge movies.
Much of what's pictured are buildings that were built decades ago, so how do those somehow foretell our 'dystopian future'? That's actually just our awkward past. Also, how is this all bad? Cubicles? Each person in one is paying their bills that way. Housing? Well we all need that don't we? People hanging clothes to dry on lines between urban buildings? That's classic old NYC type stuff, but actually that's more eco-friendly than using a dryer. Awkward urban design? Well okay, but there's some of that in every city. Pretty stupid listicle.
I thought I had seen all the scars humanity caused. I started crying somewhere in all this misery, and now I can't stop anymore. We did ALL of this, and I'm just so, so ashamed. The fable of Noah and the flood never made sense to me, but now....
These are some amazing photos!! Here I am in the middle of the country in my state. Closest neighbor is 1/4 mile away. I've never lived in a city so it hard for me to relate. But the photos are still amazing!
Time to move back to the countryside and become self-sufficient. Oh, wait! The government overlords don't want you to become independent.
This isn't a recent phenomenon though. Seeing scenes like these over the decades in three continents has made the now graying me grateful I don't live forever. What we're doing, isn't sustainable. Our economic model isn't sustainable. I don't have anything better and can only hope someone out there does. Or I kick the bucket before the brown stuff hit the spinny blades.
Lol all of you please stay in your city squalor! Us living in the mid west be winning with our gardens and land! You voted for this and keep voting for this!
the worst pollution is humans, the world has become trash, both figuratively and literally.
Boston Terrier puppies. 1 male, 5 females. Both parents are on site. This litter is doing very well and all have nice markings. They are getting coordinated, beginning to show personality and beginning to play with their litter mates. Text Or Call +1 303 479 4513 They will be ready to go on soon and will have their 1st shots and well-baby checkup at the vet by then. Please Email Charlse at https://miraclebostonterriers.com/ to see the litter. Update: the male is spoken for, as well as 3 females, so 2 still available.
Mr. Smith from The Matrix had a point in the first movie. Humans are just like a disease. Infecting one area, leaving it dead after it can't serve a purpose anymore, and going off to kill more areas.
Disgusting what humans have done to the planet! And we just sit back and allow our elected twits to just carry on and make the most ridiculous decisions.
I feel extremely privileged to have lived most of my life in central California, Oregon, and now Virginia. I am by no means wealthy, probably close to poverty level. After seeing these pics tho, I feel wealthy beyond my wildest dreams.
Found all the photos interesting and sad. It lets me know that I have it pretty good.
That's. Scary. I think the biggest city I've ever seen is Jackson Mississippi
This post, has been a learning experience, things I was not aware of !!!
My mouth hung open in shock as I looked at these photos. I live on a little farm in Central Wisconsin, USA. I can't see any neighbors. The land is lush, green, peaceful and has a variety of wild animals. I love it here, and after seeing this article, I am so VERY thankful for all my blessings. My farm is called "Bountiful"!
In the late 1960s ZPG became a prominent political movement in the U.S. and parts of Europe, with strong links to environmentalism and feminism. Yale University was a stronghold of the ZPG activists who believed "that a constantly increasing population is responsible for many of our problems: pollution, violence, loss of values and of individual privacy (from Wikipedia) Sound familiar? And we didn't listen...
Manilla, for example, has a population density of far over 100,000 people per square mile. At that population density, the entire Earth could live in a small portion of a single municipality in northern Quebec. People live together because other people offer people opportunity. What you see in the monsoon washback on the Indian coast exists because their socioeconomic development is about where the U.S. was around 1980. And frankly, our trash in the 1980s was pretty damned gross, but we did have more land. And India was where were were in around 1880 not very long ago at all.
So, when are we going to stop pointing fingers and blaming and fighting and correcting and just talking about what needs to change or be done differently and actually start taking action to stop these things? When are we going to stop fighting with each other and being against each other's nations? When are we going to unite as human beings and stop relying on our governments to take care of problems for us? When are we actively going to change this whole world TOGETHER as human kind?
cute notion but our governments made these messes. we need to hold them responsible. boycotting and activism aren’t viable options for a lot of people. alternatives can be expensive, hard to find, or end up being just as problematic because mass production got a hold of it. it’s a complex issue and no amount of peace and love is going to be enough. we need to get our governments in check.
Load More Replies... What this planet really needs is an extinction level event to get rid of all these ugly pink parasites, until the planet's population is back down below 1 billion.
That is disgusting. How could you even say that? You want 6 billion human lives to be taken? Sure, we need to do something about these problems but killing 6 billion people is not the answer.
Load More Replies... The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Humanity's worst enemy is itself.
Not true. Every statistic ever has pointed to the fact that the poor ARE getting richer.
Load More Replies... The planet doesn't have enough resources for everybody in the world to live like we do in the western world.
At least you have that choice. Billions of people don't.
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