People On This Group Are Sharing Examples Of ‘Urban Hell’ That Look Like A Dystopian Movie But Are Sadly Real (40 Pics)

If only nature could actually give back all the trash to us, maybe we will see the damage we are doing :(

Thats sad...

For a few months earth took a breath, then humans came back with a vengeance :(

This image makes me anxious :(

Is this the aftermath of that enormous explosion`?

That is really lifeless

Ewgh. These types of pictures make me feel depressed and anxious

yep, that's how Trump likes it. He's in his gold-covered chair, you're dying at his feet.

And none of these fools has the sense to even consider that bathing in industrial waste speeds up your reincarnation process.

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.

The difference between the have's and the have not's, in one photo.

How is this stable, I am stressed out just looking at this image

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.)

Blame your government’s. This is their fault . They buy rubbish from countries and do not dispose of it correctly.

Just imagine, a few decades or hundred years ago somebody built a nice villa, and now with the urbanisation the whole thing is under a highway..

looks like something from cyberpunk

So so sad... We really are earth's parasite...

I think it's so easy to take for granted what we have in the USA

As a South African, I know this is not true... we also have electric fences along with what is shown.

That's just every day in LA during traffic hours.

This almost looks like a surreal piece of art

Not a single tree in sight (Ok, realised that's very normal there. My bad)

I don't understand how the US can have money to make bombers but not to help citizens who need help.

Cubeville. Dilbert will be hiding in there somewhere.

Whole street looks like a pop up ad

Why?

There was a whole BP post about this. A rail company owns most of the land so no-one can do anything.

Yeah, just find you a spot and it's yours.

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!

@WilvanderHeidjen They absolutely are homeless. They are squatting in a utilities access cabinet.

Goodness, the Americans really destroyed that beautiful country.

This guy is an infamous money launderer and fugitve of India, currently hiding in UK fighting extradition case

The irony..

Just reminds me when I discovered that "wrong side of the tracks" isn't some cute folksy sayinging in the USA, it's a real thing. I remember being so shocked when I took a rental car for a "road trip" between two conferences about 10 years ago, and I drove through smaller US cities. One second you would be in quiet, quite pleasant suburbia, and then you'd cross a railway crossing, and BOOM, utter third-world levels of squalor on the otherside of the tracks. No transition, no warning, no industry- straight from people cheerfully mowing their front lawns, to people living in caravans and shanties. Weird.

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Definitely cherry picked, though. Much of Sacramento is very nice, though it can get hot and is getting hotter. It tends to have lower buildings than a lot of big cities. And it has a humongous number of trees. https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/sacramento

San Fran is worse. Why do you think 2 million people left, half of them for Texas. Cali has high homeless, high trash rates, poor resource management, and high political corruption

As a person who lives in Sacramento California, it's so hard to see this image. As a city we have been trying to find the right solution for homelessness. We give vouchers for hotels, have shelters available, and are using tiny houses. In spite of all of this there are still a group of people who will NOT live indoors. We have tent cities too. This is so hard to deal with. SACRAMENTO IS TRYING TO HOUSE ALL.

illegal dumpers do this in every city

Lived in Sacto a few years, you can find scenes like this ALL throughout the city. One time I saw a full on tent neighborhood complete with a community picnic table and grill under a canopy, under the overpass.

Ah yes, Sacramento. Lovely, isn't it?

There’s the nice places in Sacramento, and then you’ve got central downtown.

Homeless people come to California from all over the nation. Some states even put them on buses and send them to California. A number of homeless individuals are homeless out of choice. They refuse to enter shelters or housing because they would be required to live by any rules. Many others are mentally ill and because of certain laws, cannot be helped against their will. Look at the many articles about Governor/President Reagan's cavalier attitude toward the mentally ill. https://www.abc10.com/mobile/article/news/local/california/a-brief-history-of-mental-health-care-in-california/103-537434252

This is what wealthy Californians have done to the entire American west. Nobody can afford a house. Their fleeing their state has put the rest of us out of reach of rent/ a home. The Haves displace the Have Nots. .. The American Dream is a nightmare.