#wittenoom

[wouldyourathervisit]

kijong-dong, dprk - build in the 50s but never fully inhabited

pompeii, italy - everyone knows this one

chernobyl, ukraine - everyone knows this one

centralia, usa - on fire since 1962

wittenoom, australia - asbestos in the air

fordlandia, brazil - built by henry ford and failed because he didn't know shit

Would you rather visit

Kijong-dong, North Korea 🇰🇵

Pompeii, Italy 🇮🇹

Chernobyl, Ukraine 🇺🇦

Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA 🇺🇸

Wittenoom, Western Australia 🇦🇺

Fordlândia, Brazil 🇧🇷

Remaining time: 7 hours 10 minutes

[imgs-of-old]

DSC02523, 2421, 2423, 2432 and 2427 from July 2009

[wombathotshotbiggestglazer]

Australia has a Mini Chernobyl

and the blue asbestos and a document I watched are giving me AU ideas🥹🥹

[trammellesstangent]

I’m so proud of everyone

[leere-persoenlichkeit-gedanken]

babe... please... yes babe we HAVE to go to wittenoom and collect 7 home depot buckets full of blue asbestos tailings

[twitterexile]

The deadline to move out of Australia's most contaminated town has passed, but its final residents remain firm on staying

With three million tonnes of asbestos tailings scarring the landscape, the town of Wittenoom has been declared inhabitable. But despite the

[fersesus]

[mercy-misrule]

I used to believe that there wasn't active malevolence in a lot of horrible acts by companies. I thought it was all cost cutting, uncaring acts that caused the damage to happen but how can you look at stuff like wittenoom and think that it was anything other then evil? deliberately holding back the truth and actively treating your employees like they were disposable, and then refusing to own your actions and dragging out any legal action to further injure victims... that's absolutely intentionally evil