[keekles]

100 photos of people living in 100 square feet public housing flats in Hong Kong: Ten by Ten
Kind of endearing and depressing at the same time.

[mekrob]

Hell, I live in a dorm. 12 x 10, I believe. So that's only 60 ft^2 for me. I wish I had 100 sq ft. Although my room is a little bit nicer (not as many things) and I do have a shower...but I'll soon join them after I graduate. Hoping to find <100 sq ft room with shower and kitchen included in the footage after graduation.

[kam30en]

My sister is buying an apartment in Manhattan. Its bigger than 100 sq ft, but not by that much. And she's paying boatloads for it. She could get 1000 acres in West Virginia, prime hunting and farmland for what she's paying. I mentioned peak oil to her once, and she flatly accused me of being a psychopath and a loser. I am scraping enough money together to buy about 50 acres in WV while she's buying her feeding pen in Manhattan. And it's in a high-rise...up shits creek without an elevator.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kam30en', 'M')y sister is buying an apartment in Manhattan. Its bigger than 100 sq ft, but not by that much. And she's paying boatloads for it. She could get 1000 acres in West Virginia, prime hunting and farmland for what she's paying. I mentioned peak oil to her once, and she flatly accused me of being a psychopath and a loser. I am scraping enough money together to buy about 50 acres in WV while she's buying her feeding pen in Manhattan. And it's in a high-rise...up shits creek without an elevator.

[pea-jay]

Michael Wolf's photography is a great way to look at china from a somewhat deeper level. China is an amazing country. I have only been there once and was awed by its massiveness and dumbfounded by the number of people that live their lives seemingly surrounded entirely by others.

Or to look at it another way, China brings to life what bartlett talks about the results of exponential growth. When growth occurs in China, you are talking in mind numbing numbers.









I can't see things ending well for these people at all if we don't figure out how to keep them fueled and fed.

Of course if we do figure this energy thing out, our collective stupidity will let our own numbers grow to the point where when I reach my retirement age, by then probably 90, I too would be resigned to a 100sf existance somewhere on the planet.

Gee, thanks for the cheery pics.

[TheTurtle]

This particular image essentially captures my worst nightmare of what the outcome of Peak Oil could look like when people desperately try to maintain status quo as oil slides down the slope ... and to think, this photo is already here and now ...

I feel the need to balance it with a couple of images from Missouri's Irish Wilderness, where I often find myself hiking ...




Ahhhhhh ...