What the fuck is up with all those taxis?

very sad and sickening

Well he kind of has a point and you are looking at it from a privileged view. I hardly think they have handy little carts to haul to the curb for Waste Management to pick up weekly. Third world cities don't exactly have the luxuries we take for granted and it is stupid to believe they do or expect them to based on our comfy view from the top.

:2 cents:

very unsettling pics...our pets live better than a lot of those children

Very sad.... But so true I am most certain my dog has more luxuries than those poor kids.

They have access to FIRE.....All they gotta do is gather that shit up and at least they can burn it....Hell, even in Africa, they burn at least SOME of the trash that's laying around everywhere. The smell of burning garbage is just part of the landscape there.

And that is where their ignorance comes in and with the level of pollution seen in those photos your point is moot anyways. If they had done that from the start that would have been a fine solution except for the level of harmful vapors it would produce. I doubt they have the machinery to collect all the garbage now that it has accumulated the way it has which is were my point is.

It would take a decade or more to restore the damage from its present state so "fire" isn't the solve all solution here.

a few years ago there was a conference in latin america about populating growth on the earth in the next 50 - 100 years.

Basically the earth population growth is going gang buster currently, the population will double in something like 100 years but already now, we have serious problems feeding the entire population (20% of humans are said to be living below the WHO limits for min daily calorie intake).
Many farmers are now growing soy and other grains to be used for fuel, so food will likely increase in cost to keep up with cost of fuel and thus make things even worse...

pollution plays a big part as fertilizers in itself is a big pollutant, so food production is not something can just "turn up.." without serious repercussions..

Amazing.. I can't get over the people swimming in the garbage water. Gross!

It's really amazing how much we can fuck up our homes, stuff like this is always a eye opener to how you good you have it, regardless of how bad you think you have it.

I wouldn't start to compare Costa Rica to India or anything, but there are pollution and garbage problems here, and they start at the fact that the locals don't give a shit, and no one wants to pay to fix anything. If you give them the choice between sewage treatment or more garbage routes, or a weeks worth of beer, they'll tell you to fuck off so they can get drunk in peace (and throw the cans out of their car window because garbage collection costs them money).

Poor people seem to have this sense of "it's not my problem". I'd imagine with 500x the population it'd just be that much worse.

I could not agree more. :thumbsup

I send a lot of messages in bottles so some of those could have come from me.

Acres in texas = Answer: 268,820 mi² = 171,520,000 acre. So i think we can so "no" to the above. But you could give every American an acre. All we would have to do it get rid of all infrastructure. No roads, schools, store or any of that dumb stuff.

Dude that is crazy as the link you provided was about how this is wrong hehe

You couldn't pay me enough to swim or bathe in any of those rivers. Btw is that 2nd pic from the top a shot of the long-famed "Shit Creek"? (the one so many people go up without a paddle?)

Looks like it.

its just that simple eh.

they throw the garbage out because they dont have garbage service, they bathe in the water because its the only water they can bathe in , they dont have water service. They dont get paid enough making you nike's and hair gel to afford the things we take for granted.:2 cents:

If you don't feel bad for kids being forced to bathe in garbage then you probably have no soul, and will likely never know about things like love and happiness, so i wouldnt worry too much about it :)

If it were me I think I'd sell any and all worldly possessions I may have and hopefully raise enough money to move my family out of such a shithole, maybe stow away on a tramp steamer to a place where people don't wallow in their own filth.

But that's just me.

holy shit

wow those are some amazing photos of reality

Wow amazing pictures... makes you step back and reflect.

enjoying the read