https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/how-china ... -paradise/
Large swaths of once-pristine land now house hundreds of neo-classical condos — with Chinese signage and a Chinese guard outside the entrance.
“If you are not Chinese, you are not allowed in,” Kary said. As I took a video of the housing, a guard shooed us away.
“The Chinese just came in the last two years,” Kary said. “They built the roads up here and the apartments. It is the Chinese economic zone — there are 2,000 Chinese living there. No one locally got any work — they brought in all of their own workers, eat all of their own food and take everything. (Locals) get nothing.”
The Chinese real estate company, Tianjin Union Development Group, is “transforming [130 square miles] of Botum Sakor into a city-sized gambling resort for ‘extravagant feasting and revelry,’ its website says,” according to a Reuters report. “A [40-mile] highway, now almost complete, will cut a four-lane swath through mostly virgin forest.”
How China is destroying a precious Cambodian paradise
Is there any virgin forest left in Cambodia?Cricket99 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 11:53 pmThe Chinese real estate company, Tianjin Union Development Group, is “transforming [130 square miles] of Botum Sakor into a city-sized gambling resort for ‘extravagant feasting and revelry,’ its website says,” according to a Reuters report. “A [40-mile] highway, now almost complete, will cut a four-lane swath through mostly virgin forest.”
None but ourselves can free our mind.
- maxx
- I've got internet at work
- Reactions: 7
- Posts: 271
- Joined: Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:24 pm
- Location: digging a deeper foxhole
the entire planet is being turned into a ball of concrete
nothing can stop it
climate change has been confused with only excessive amounts of No2 but in reality its the human species & deforestation that has allowed the melting of the ice, the coming extinction of all wildlife, the poisoning of the oceans with plastics, the polluting of the atmosphere with massive amounts of every toxin in existence & the forests are no longer there to absorb the toxins like it once did & humans dont give a fuck about anything other than themselves & the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
if youre alive now, youre luckier than those to come
the only thing left is to take shelter from it all in whatever now passes as the vestiges of clean
nothing can stop it
climate change has been confused with only excessive amounts of No2 but in reality its the human species & deforestation that has allowed the melting of the ice, the coming extinction of all wildlife, the poisoning of the oceans with plastics, the polluting of the atmosphere with massive amounts of every toxin in existence & the forests are no longer there to absorb the toxins like it once did & humans dont give a fuck about anything other than themselves & the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
if youre alive now, youre luckier than those to come
the only thing left is to take shelter from it all in whatever now passes as the vestiges of clean
2
2
Hang on. I thought there’s going to be global recession which will curtail the concretification of the world?
Make your mind up.
Make your mind up.
2
1
1
pew, pew, pew, pew!
-
- OneTrickPony
- Reactions: 64
- Posts: 1640
- Joined: Tue Aug 20, 2019 12:48 pm
All that's been sorted: they are going to build skyscrapers out of wood instead of concrete. And the world will be saved.
So long as we all turn vegan, too.
https://www.designboom.com/architecture ... 7-31-2016/
https://www.ecowatch.com/which-is-worse ... 32136.html
I know, old news
So long as we all turn vegan, too.
https://www.designboom.com/architecture ... 7-31-2016/
https://www.ecowatch.com/which-is-worse ... 32136.html
I know, old news
Up the workers!
I can’t work out if you’re a good troll or just an idiot.
2
1
1
pew, pew, pew, pew!
-
- I live above an internet cafe
- Reactions: 8
- Posts: 148
- Joined: Sat Jan 04, 2020 4:13 am
Sounds like to the mainland Chinese, "city-sized gambling resort for extravagant feasting and revelry" is paradise.
To them, much better than mosquito infested, over-heated forests.
People coming from densely packed, convenience filled cities have always struggled with adjusting to nature. It's not comfortable, clean, or convenient to them.
They're certainly missing out.
To them, much better than mosquito infested, over-heated forests.
People coming from densely packed, convenience filled cities have always struggled with adjusting to nature. It's not comfortable, clean, or convenient to them.
They're certainly missing out.
You're definitely right with your 2nd paragraph.techietraveller84 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:05 amSounds like to the mainland Chinese, "city-sized gambling resort for extravagant feasting and revelry" is paradise.
To them, much better than mosquito infested, over-heated forests.
People coming from densely packed, convenience filled cities have always struggled with adjusting to nature. It's not comfortable, clean, or convenient to them.
They're certainly missing out.
Thing is most people all over east Asia are only a generation from subsistence farming and verdant rolling hills are not remembered that fondly.
If you look at the huge mansions, they tend not to have expansive landscaped lawns and wild areas to encourage wildlife but rather pristine tiles. Creepy crawlies and serpents live in those places.
Humans on the whole have been trying to escape from the forest for thousands of years.
Devil in de bush.
-
- I live above an internet cafe
- Reactions: 8
- Posts: 148
- Joined: Sat Jan 04, 2020 4:13 am
Good point.
Perhaps a new, younger generation of Chinese will find themselves drawn to nature at some point, viewing it as an escape from cramped, urban life. HK and Japanese back packers I've seen around seem to show an uptick in interest in nature among urban youth.
For Asia's sake, one can only hope.
Perhaps a new, younger generation of Chinese will find themselves drawn to nature at some point, viewing it as an escape from cramped, urban life. HK and Japanese back packers I've seen around seem to show an uptick in interest in nature among urban youth.
For Asia's sake, one can only hope.
- maxx
- I've got internet at work
- Reactions: 7
- Posts: 271
- Joined: Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:24 pm
- Location: digging a deeper foxhole
i suppose the usual trolls with come on this thread and try to poison it with contempt
the decade 2 months old and already what china is doing has been replaced with what china was doing and moved onto
1. worldwide virulence
2. turkey pissing everyone off by not letting the rebs and their families be slaughtered and at war with syria and by proxy russia and opening the borders and possible exporting of the worldwide virulence straight into countries like greece
3. stock markets in meltdown
4. further qe therefore greater debt with no end in sight of negative interest rates so making cash trash
5. currencies in freefall
the decade 2 months old and already what china is doing has been replaced with what china was doing and moved onto
1. worldwide virulence
2. turkey pissing everyone off by not letting the rebs and their families be slaughtered and at war with syria and by proxy russia and opening the borders and possible exporting of the worldwide virulence straight into countries like greece
3. stock markets in meltdown
4. further qe therefore greater debt with no end in sight of negative interest rates so making cash trash
5. currencies in freefall
-
- Similar Topics
- Replies
- Views
- Last post
-
-
The Khmer technique of simultaneously drying and destroying t-shirts
by orde » Sun Aug 30, 2020 6:32 pm » in Cambodia Speakeasy - 29 Replies
- 3766 Views
-
Last post by slavedog
Sat Sep 05, 2020 1:42 pm
-
-
- 0 Replies
- 1892 Views
-
Last post by raendi
Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:30 am
-
-
China pledges funding for Cambodian railway upgrade
by Bong Burgundy » Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:10 pm » in Cambodia News - 7 Replies
- 475 Views
-
Last post by telescopic
Tue Feb 14, 2023 10:38 am
-
-
-
Cambodian woman rescued from abusive employer in China
by Bong Burgundy » Fri Oct 16, 2020 2:33 am » in Cambodia News - 0 Replies
- 1822 Views
-
Last post by Bong Burgundy
Fri Oct 16, 2020 2:33 am
-
-
-
China's APT40 Hacking Group Advertised for Cambodian Translators
by techietraveller84 » Wed Jan 22, 2020 8:11 am » in Cambodia Speakeasy - 2 Replies
- 919 Views
-
Last post by techietraveller84
Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:21 am
-