ATTENTION WAL*MART SHOPPERS

[pasithea]

Take a look at your low low prices.

http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/

Comments

[idragosani.livejournal.com]

That made me sick to my stomach...

[paka.livejournal.com]

It isn't surprising, but it's so like what people would do in the USA if they could, and I guess that explains why all the business goes to the PRC anyway.

But it's really sad to see that China made all this technological progress in the last 100 years, but it's only barely changed the social aspects from the same horrible stuff you read about in Lu Xun, stuff like that. I wish there were something I could do to help.

[paradox-puree.livejournal.com]

To be fair, this is due to rampant consumerism across most companies in the United States, Europe, and other places. Wal*Mart is just one of the more egregious examples.

Culture Jamming suggestion: Create "price" stickers in the Wal*Mart style with these photos on them and put them on things in Wal*Mart stores.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

What strikes me is that it looks _exactly_ like pictures of industrial areas in the United States, a hundred years ago. The ugliness, the squalor, the poison, the naked oppression, it's all there and then some. A hundred years later, and the life of an industrial worker is still shit.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Heartbreaking images. Sadly too common. This is bigger than Walmart though. Many parts of Russia, the Americas, Africa, Eastern Europe etc. are just as bad. I hold out hope that spreading images like this will help mitigate them.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Number 16 is a scene straight out of Mordor. :(