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Chinese Green Urban Buildings Become Post-Apocalyptic Disaster


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2020 Sep 17, 7:17pm   793 views  8 comments

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https://nypost.com/2020/09/15/mosquitoes-overrun-chinese-complex-turned-into-vertical-forest/

Mosquitoes overrun Chinese apartment complex turned into ‘vertical forest’

Residents at a Chinese housing complex who looked forward to living in a verdant “vertical forest” found themselves in a veritable hell – with mosquitoes swarming their eco-paradise, according to a report.

The experimental green project at Chengdu’s Qiyi City Forest Garden attracted buyers for all 826 apartments, but it also attracted the pesky insects that gave the towers a post-apocalyptic facade, Agence France-Presse reported.

As a result, only a handful of families have moved in amid the infestation in the complex, which was built in 2018 with every private balcony designed to provide space for plants to grow.

Plants have almost completely overrun some neglected balconies, with branches hanging over railings all over the towers.

But some brave people apparently decided to move in, as evidenced by several balconies that featured pruned plants and outdoor furniture, as well as lights turned on inside the apartments.

Only about 10 families have moved in so far, the state-run Global Times reported.




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2   NDrLoR   2020 Sep 17, 9:14pm  

TrumpingTits says
apartment complex turned into ‘vertical forest’
Reminds me of the 1907 horror story by William Hope Hodgson "The Voice in the Night", adapted first to TV for the Alfred Hitchcock series Suspicion in 1958:

"In this story, a schooner at sea ("becalmed in the Northern Pacific") is approached in the middle of "a dark, starless night" by a small rowboat. The passenger aboard the boat, who refuses to bring his boat close alongside and requests that the sailors on the schooner put away their lanterns, tells everyone a disturbing tale. Begging food for his fiance, he receives some rations, floated to him in a wooden box. Later that same evening, he returns to report that his fiance is grateful for the food, but will soon die, and he tells the sailors his full story.

He and his fiancée, aboard the ship Albatross, were abandoned by the ship's crew, who took the remaining lifeboats. After building a raft, they escaped from the sinking vessel and found an apparently abandoned ship in a nearby lagoon, covered with a fungus-like growth. They attempted to remove this growth from the living quarters but were unable to do so; it continued to spread, and so they returned to their raft. The nearby island was also covered with this growth, except for a narrow beach. Eventually, the man and his fiancee found the fungus growing on their skin and felt an uncontrollable urge to eat it. They discovered that other humans on the island have been entirely absorbed by the strange fungal growth.

As the man in the rowboat rows away, just as the sky is lightening, the narrator can dimly see a grotesquely misshapen figure in the rowboat, scarcely recognizable as human"

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3   theoakman   2020 Sep 18, 5:17am  

There are bacterial sprays that kill all their larvae. Easy fix. Disney has eliminated mosquitos from their entire florida property
4   Shaman   2020 Sep 18, 6:22am  

theoakman says
There are bacterial sprays that kill all their larvae. Easy fix. Disney has eliminated mosquitos from their entire florida property


It’s not Green to kill mosquitos.

Hell the researchers at UCIrvine came up with a genetic way to get rid of them involving mosquitos that are programmed to mate with wild ones and then die off in a couple generations leaving no mosquitos. But they won’t let them test it.
6   RC2006   2020 Sep 18, 6:28am  

What the he'll is Masqito something they don't eat.
7   WookieMan   2020 Sep 18, 7:26am  

Actually looks kind of cool. Also a great example of why we need to detach from China completely. 10 families moved in out of 826 apartments and they're blaming mosquitos when they likely manufacture most of the products to kill them? American money built that and we need to stop giving them our money. Pure waste of resources and you know they didn't sell all those. Might as well have built a 1 square mile basketball court.
8   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2020 Sep 18, 8:55am  

Plants wage corrosive warfare on anything in its way of growing and expanding. Certain trees and plants, release toxins that surrounding plants have no defense against. The other plants lose limbs or even die as the other plant encroaches. They also corrode and breakdown other materials like wood and concrete, in addition to the extra moisture they create on the surrounding building materials.

Moss, Ferns, Weeds, Vines, and tree debris and over hanging limbs as well as the root systems. Can destroy a building to ruin in 5 to 10 years of neglect.

There's a couple of houses in my neighborhood, that never made it out of 2008 RE ghost inventory. That the roofs, have totally fallen in, and the corners have cracked and pulling away from the foundation. These houses need to be totally demolished now. One of the houses, was a house we used to drive by and opine about buying it, as they were in good shape then.

Those balconies on that high rise is going to start losing chunks of concrete if they don't have an army of green thumbs keeping them in check.

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