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Post Office Tower May 2010 The view from the Post Office Tower towards The City and the newly built Barbican was often filled with pollution. amemphianblue says: Gods funny like that... he left templates for silver linings in everything. He must have known that somewhere between the folly and wisdom yet to be, that there would be the innocent bystanders who wanted nothing more than the gift of a beautiful sunset... so he put a little twist where the visibal spectrum meets sulpher-dioxide. Looking at this more closely I see clearly that God knew we would pass this way... and a loving God would always leave a silver lining for a young man with a camera. tonyhall says: Greg, the industrial capitalists have exported this view and this problem to China and other parts of the world. We reap the benefits of their pollution, but for probably not much longer. clifsnap says: A price worth paying for our comforts? I think not,but we have little to say in the matter. tonyhall says: Clif, pollution is a natural outcome of industrial capitalism. ^Tom says: A smoggy day in London Town. It's even more frightening when we remember that London isn't (and wasn't in the '70s) a heavily industrialised city. stewpic says: I wonder whats happening to our lungs in the long term. |