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Related: About this forumBangalore Plagued With Floating, Flammable Toxic Foam - Surreal Photographs
?1444253278Strange, puffy, dense clouds are descending on the streets of Bangalore, Indias technology capital. While whimsical-looking, they are actually puffs of a toxic foam inundating the city.
Documentary photographer Debasish Ghosh has captured images of the clouds floating around the city and overrunning the roads. The foam comes from Bellandur, a 1.4-square-mile lake that for years has been polluted by chemical and sewage waste. Every time it rains, the lake rises and wind lifts the froth up and carries it into the city.
The toxic foam gets in the way of pedestrians and cars, creating awful traffic jams. It carries a stench so strong that it burns the nose. And if it comes into contact with your skin, youll get an itchy rash. It causes a nuisance, Ghosh says. Making matters worse, the froth is flammable. In May and June, the entire lake caught fire, leaving a 56-year-old man who was standing on a bridge above the lake with a ruptured cornea.
The froth has come every summer for more more than a decade now, but Ghosh says that this year is particularly bad. Hes been documenting the pollution since May, making sure to immediately clean his arms, hands, and face any time he gets too close.
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Bangalore Plagued With Floating, Flammable Toxic Foam - Surreal Photographs (Original Post)
hatrack
Oct 2015
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. Republican Paradise!
hatrack
(59,589 posts)2. None of those pesky regulations!
Yay, Freedumb!
n2doc
(47,953 posts)3. I'm sure the free market has a solution for this! n/t
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)5. And they do...
Nothing.
Kiss your ass goodbye.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)11. The corporate masters...
will probably not let them do anything. This is a vision of the future America
hopeforchange2008
(610 posts)6. What the flipping heck is that s**t???
It is absolutely terrifying what we do to this planet.
valerief
(53,235 posts)7. Holy shit! The human race is sooooo fucked. nt
blm
(113,072 posts)8. This is what Koch Industries wants for the US.
GOP: Our fascist masters WILL be obeyed ..Deregulate, deregulate, deregulate.
pscot
(21,024 posts)9. It burns
MisterP
(23,730 posts)10. how'll Matt Yglesias praise this?
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)12. Hey Libertarians! No regulations! Bangalore awaits!
Obviously a tropical paradise!!!
<---sarcasm
Nihil
(13,508 posts)13. And remember children, this is the country that *really* *will* be giving up coal real soon now ...
I read it here on DU that India, China and America are going to make "serious" headway
at the 21st political junket "climate conference" in Paris ... no doubt straight
after they've sorted out their other toxic pollution problems ...