• The Environment

    The World's 10 Worst Cities

    By Posted on 6.25.2008 11 Comments

    You may already know about the pollution plight of Linfen, China. But how about the heavy metals Pittsburghers breathe in on a daily basis? Or the incomparable smog Milanesi put up with? PopSci has culled an eye-opening selection of some of the world's most problematic cities. From the painfully high cancer rates in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan to the acid rain destroying La Oroya, Peru, writer Jason Daley will walk you through the lowest of the low; and explain why, despite it all, there's still hope for these places.

    6.26.2008 at 01:43pm - Comment by duqtito81

    Once again proving that journalists will create their own narrative in order to substantiate their idea. It takes 2 seconds to follow the link of the Pittsburgh photo to see that the photographer called this Pittsburgh skyline photo "pittsburgh under an unusual morning fog". And if they had looked at any other pictures in this person's flickr account other than the one they selected (with fog, not smog), they'd see an entirely different Pittsburgh than the one they're trying to peddle. As a resident, it drives me crazy that the world's impression of my city is driven by someone who's probably never been here, or has and fudges it to drive his/her point. I've not been to the other cities in this list, but I can only imagine that they are similarly misrepresented, or at least not as bad as the author's screed suggests.



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