China is building the world’s tallest skyscraper in Changsha, Hunan Province. They will build five stories a day and complete the project in just 3 months. It will house 17,400 people, several schools, hospitals and even a hotel.
China is building the world’s tallest skyscraper in Changsha, Hunan Province. They will build five stories a day and complete the project in just 3 months. It will house 17,400 people, several schools, hospitals and even a hotel.
Check out the photo at the above link, and you’ll see that even in this artist’s rendition the 838-meter tower is still surrounded by smog. Once the tower is completed, you can imagine just how horrific the smog will really be!
Here are some more pix of air pollution in central China from this past summer. The major industrial cities in China regularly have smog far worse than the worse U.S. city, Los Angeles.
They say that living in LA is like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day since the day you’re born. Think two packs a day if you live anywhere in China these days.
Building a skyscraper in a city enveloped with smog so thick you can cut it with a feather is kind of disgusting.
You take any one of 100 high speed elevators to school or to your apartment, only to look out – on dark gray muck. They’ll probably need a small army of window cleaners to constantly scrape the crud off the windows.
The uppermost levels will no doubt go at a premium.
On the rare windy day, they’re the only place for hundreds of miles around that you can actually see the sun rise or set, and if you’re really REALLY lucky, you can even see the stars at night.
That’s progress.
