Megalopolis
Thanks are due to this Oh My News International article by Asad Yawar for alerting me to a short Channel 4 film by Jonathan Watts of the Guardian about the Chinese megalopolis that is Chongqing. It can be downloaded and viewed at the Guardian website here.
By the looks of things this is a mega city of 30 million that might just disappear into a thick smoggy haze or be buried under rotting refuse if someone doesn’t wake up and realise that its development is completely unsustainable. I suppose capitalist development has always been this way from Manchester to Milan and Moscow, to Detroit and Chongqing. It’s just that each new burst of development draws in ever greater numbers of people and creates ever greater demand for energy and more catastrophic ruptures in the metabolic cycles of human life.
