Retirement at 45, death at 50. Welcome to Norilsk

[rousseau]

I was searching about the web the other day and ended up googling 'World's Northernmost City'. Came across this:

Retirement at 45, death at 50. Welcome to Norilsk

Fascinating article. The gist is there are enormous mineral mines in the Northern part of Siberia, and so a city exists up there with about 100 000 people in it, only accessible by plane. The weather conditions are extreme, people can't spend much time outside, and because of pollution from the mines disease rates are sky-high.

 

[phands]

I was searching about the web the other day and ended up googling 'World's Northernmost City'. Came across this:

Retirement at 45, death at 50. Welcome to Norilsk

Fascinating article. The gist is there are enormous mineral mines in the Northern part of Siberia, and so a city exists up there with about 100 000 people in it, only accessible by plane. The weather conditions are extreme, people can't spend much time outside, and because of pollution from the mines disease rates are sky-high.

Now think about what the tangerine terrorist is doing to the EPA....

 

[bigfield]

It's like a level in a dystopian sci-fi video game. One commenter's comparison with Half-Life 2 is apt.

 

[ruby sparks]

Thanks for posting. Fascinating. Terrible in some ways.

Great photographs.

It seems a decent possibility, at least, that most cities will share many of these characteristics in the future.

Is Delhi the most polluted city on Earth? Not quite
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/...ticles/delhi-most-polluted-city-in-the-world/