(PICTURE: One day children living on Dong Da Lake will think this picture was altered in photoshop.)Last week I wrote a post about the disappearance of Dong Da Lake. I had been told that it was just being cleaned and this was reinforced by a blog reader's comments. However, I have just been told by a reliable source (a thirteen year old boy who I tutor around the corner from that lake) that in fact Dong Da Lake is gone forever. There are signs posted near the lake saying that a railroad station will be built where the lake is. Needless to say, this makes me very very unhappy. If the railroad station was actually a subway that could help the traffic I could potentially be swayed into the necessity of destroying the beauty of the city. However, that is not the case. Goodbye Dong Da Lake. I really loved you.
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Teach them about "Green Acres" before it is too late.
=( industrialization will destroy all the green of hanoi within 20 years
Sadly this isn't just a problem in Vietnam. America is knocking down way too much green space too.
The coal power brokers in Kentucky have a favorite when it comes to total impact, total destruction, and nothing more than a way to justify destroying an entire way of life in ways we'll realize from now till the end of man.THEY CALL IT MOUNTAIN-TOP REMOVAL!All for the sake of making the coal companies richer and richer.All on the backs of people who have risked their lives for generations in the hills and mountains of south eastern Kentucky for generations. LH in KY
that is seriously sad. the lake definitely gave the urban neighborhood a more nature-y feel.
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