Mad, Bad, or Greedy?
A gallery of 8 photos taken at the
Colonia of Las Lajas in December 2004.
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| Note the
two slender pillars supporting a flying bedroom on the left. It doesn't
look like they are true vertical. Looking at the scaffolding, it looks
as if the whole house is in fact 'flying'. Is this safe building
practice? |
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| Look at the
ghastly utilitarian concrete box someone has planted above, on the left.
On the right you can see how those support pillars have either been made
by gerry-builders, or the ground has already shifted and moved them -
even more alarming. |
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| Maybe 80
apartments? Perched on top of what must be a truly impressive view. Now,
global warming is a fact, and it's increasing, and it brings a LOT more
rain - as we're already noticing. Without vegetation, will the ground
under that block of apartments hold together when the next hurricane
strikes? |
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| Insect
housing. A honeycomb of concrete. Cells are square rather than
hexagonal. In Las Lajas everything is upside down: you arrive at the
roof of your house and climb downstairs. |
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| Would you
like to live here underneath the sewage pipes of the elite, above? What
are they building here? A cave? A public toilet? |
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| It's like
medieval times: the castle people living above, protected by a wall from
the scum living below. |
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| Responsible
for the mess! Here's the number if you want to complain. |
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| Perhaps
those responsible for this, above, haven't heard what happened to Easter
Island, or to Haiti recently, or . . . coming soon to YOU: landslides of
mud caused by reckless deforestation. |