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* The infamous Corona Ash Dumps. The area where Flushing Meadows–Corona Park now sits used to be a nightmarish dump site back in the 1920's. Ash and street sweepings were originally brought in as landfill for what used to be marshland and it just escalated until the site was filled with literal mountains of soot, horse manure, and garbage. Nearby neighborhoods were plagued not only by the sights and smells, but rat infestations. The dump is what inspired the Valley of Ashes in ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby''.
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* The infamous Corona Ash Dumps. The area where Flushing Meadows–Corona Park now sits used to be a nightmarish dump site back in the 1920's.192's. Ash and street sweepings were originally brought in as landfill for what used to be marshland and it just escalated until the site was filled with literal mountains of soot, horse manure, and garbage. Nearby neighborhoods were plagued not only by the sights and smells, but rat infestations. The dump is what inspired the Valley of Ashes in ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby''.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': Most of the world has become a desert, barren and irradiated wasteland littered with urban ruins, though this is a result of global thermonuclear war. A more traditional example is the Sierra Madre area in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas: Dead Money'', which is blanketed in the Cloud, a corrosive red smog created by the {{Mad Scientist}}s of Big Mountain. The Pitt from ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has the worst of both industrial and radioactive pollution. You can find piles a barrels of nuclear waste just laying around in all the games. In ''New Vegas'' in particular it's possible to find several truckloads of the stuff, because standard procedure for pre-war society was to just dump toxic waste wherever it was convenient.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'': Most of the world has become a desert, barren and irradiated wasteland littered with urban ruins, though this is a result of global thermonuclear war. A more traditional example is the Sierra Madre area in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas: Dead Money'', which is blanketed in the Cloud, a corrosive red smog created by the {{Mad Scientist}}s of Big Mountain. The Pitt from ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has the worst of both industrial and radioactive pollution. You can find piles a of barrels of nuclear waste just laying around in all the games. In ''New Vegas'' in particular it's possible to find several truckloads of the stuff, because standard procedure for pre-war society was to just dump toxic waste wherever it was convenient.
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* ''Literature/InfernoLarryNivenAndJerryPournelle'': The ring of the violent wasters in the Seventh Circle, previously given over to suicides and the profligate, is now mostly occupied by a barren, polluted waste of churned mud filled with garbage, toxic waste, and oily puddles, and dotted with smoke-belching factories and great strip mines. The souls of the worst polluters are sentenced here, to run through toxic slurry while chased by living bulldozers.
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* ''Literature/InfernoLarryNivenAndJerryPournelle'': The ring of the violent wasters in In the Seventh Circle, the rise of pollution and environmental degradation among humanity has made it necessary to separate the violent against nature from the violent against art and God, who were previously given over all sent to suicides the desert of fire. The new area takes the form of a great valley, cutting through the Wood of Suicides and deep into the profligate, desert; it is now mostly occupied by referred to in the sequel as the Valley of Desolation. It is a barren, polluted waste of churned mud filled with garbage, toxic waste, and oily puddles, cut through by a sluggish river of brown-and-purple slime and dotted with smoke-belching factories and great strip mines. The souls of the worst polluters are sentenced here, to run through toxic slurry while chased by living bulldozers.
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* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': Tartarus, the realm in Hell of the Prince of Technology, is a barren industrial wasteland ruined by centuries of ruthless exploitation and industry. Massive factories and laboratory complexes sprawl across the landscape, spewing out vast clouds of smog that cover the entire Principality. Interspersed with these are forests of rusted scaffolding, ruined machines, and broken infastructure from failed or abandoned projects, alongside junk heaps of broken machinery and flawed creations and bodies of filthy water covered in floating waste. The smoky darkness is filled with the heavy noises of machinery, the gurgling of liquids along snaking pipelines, and the howls of passing transports.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Many of the more established manufacturing worlds are described this way. Whether they be Forge Worlds covered in nothing but manufactoriums, or Hive Worlds scattered with immense urban sprawl cities, they usually tend to consume their immediate environment and push it past its point of capacity such that they depend on off world imports and terraforming machinery just to keep themselves habitable. The planet Armageddon is a well known example of this, often requiring re-breathers to breath comfortably in the areas near its hive cities. Indeed, this tends to motivate the otherwise sprawling nature of hive cities into dense "spires" where the air can be more easily kept breathable with environmental seals and carbon dioxide scrubber machines.
* This is one of the most common aspects of [[PlagueMaster Nurgle's]] realm as many of his armies make Biological Warfare a NEW level of fear! While Nurgle's armies will use bolters and missiles aplenty, Nurgle always keeps experimenting of new plagues and new kinds of demons to send against his rival brother gods. It gets difficult to the point that the other Chaos Gods have to dedicated Special Units to clear a path, and they [[WeAreasMayflies burn out quickly!]]
* In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', Pentex factories turn landscapes into this, in both the material world and the Umbra.
* This is one of the most common aspects of [[PlagueMaster Nurgle's]] realm as many of his armies make Biological Warfare a NEW level of fear! While Nurgle's armies will use bolters and missiles aplenty, Nurgle always keeps experimenting of new plagues and new kinds of demons to send against his rival brother gods. It gets difficult to the point that the other Chaos Gods have to dedicated Special Units to clear a path, and they [[WeAreasMayflies burn out quickly!]]
* In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', Pentex factories turn landscapes into this, in both the material world and the Umbra.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Many of the more established manufacturing worlds are described this way. Whether they be Forge Worlds covered in nothing but manufactoriums, or Hive Worlds scattered with immense urban sprawl cities, they usually tend to consume their immediate environment and push it past its point of capacity such that they depend on off world imports and terraforming machinery just to keep themselves habitable. The planet Armageddon is a well known example of this, often requiring re-breathers to breath comfortably in the areas near its hive cities. Indeed, this tends to motivate the otherwise sprawling nature of hive cities into dense "spires" where the air can be more easily kept breathable with environmental seals and carbon dioxide scrubber machines.
* ** This is one of the most common aspects of [[PlagueMaster Nurgle's]] realm as many of his armies make Biological Warfare biological warfare a NEW new level of fear! fear. While Nurgle's armies will use bolters and missiles aplenty, Nurgle always keeps experimenting of new plagues and new kinds of demons to send against his rival brother gods. It gets difficult to the point that the other Chaos Gods have to dedicated Special Units to clear a path, and they [[WeAreasMayflies burn out quickly!]]
*In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'': Pentex factories turn landscapes into this, in both the material world and the Umbra.
** Many of the more established manufacturing worlds are described this way. Whether they be Forge Worlds covered in nothing but manufactoriums, or Hive Worlds scattered with immense urban sprawl cities, they usually tend to consume their immediate environment and push it past its point of capacity such that they depend on off world imports and terraforming machinery just to keep themselves habitable. The planet Armageddon is a well known example of this, often requiring re-breathers to breath comfortably in the areas near its hive cities. Indeed, this tends to motivate the otherwise sprawling nature of hive cities into dense "spires" where the air can be more easily kept breathable with environmental seals and carbon dioxide scrubber machines.
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E127TheOldManInTheCave The Old Man in the Cave]]", in the aftermath of the nuclear war, large parts of Earth are contaminated with radiation. The Old Man told Mr. Goldsmith that the Village should not plant tomatoes. When they ignored this advice, the tomatoes that grew looked like rotten watermelons because of the radiation. Jason also mentions freak carrots.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Voices in the Earth", Earth's biosphere was destroyed 1,000 years earlier due to the complete depletion of the ozone layer. Its atmosphere consists predominantly of carbon dioxide with traces of methane and ammonia and appears to be yellow due to the iron oxide created by the many rusted buildings. However, the ghosts of the dead Earth eventually use their collective powers to [[NewEden restore the biosphere and create life in the oceans]].
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Voices in the Earth", Earth's biosphere was destroyed 1,000 years earlier due to the complete depletion of the ozone layer. Its atmosphere consists predominantly of carbon dioxide with traces of methane and ammonia and appears to be yellow due to the iron oxide created by the many rusted buildings. However, the ghosts of the dead Earth eventually use their collective powers to [[NewEden restore the biosphere and create life in the oceans]].
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E127TheOldManInTheCave "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E7TheOldManInTheCave The Old Man in the Cave]]", in the aftermath of the nuclear war, large parts of Earth are contaminated with radiation. The Old Man told Mr. Goldsmith that the Village should not plant tomatoes. When they ignored this advice, the tomatoes that grew looked like rotten watermelons because of the radiation. Jason also mentions freak carrots.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In"Voices "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S2E10 Voices in the Earth", Earth]]", Earth's biosphere was destroyed 1,000 years earlier due to the complete depletion of the ozone layer. Its atmosphere consists predominantly of carbon dioxide with traces of methane and ammonia and appears to be yellow due to the iron oxide created by the many rusted buildings. However, the ghosts of the dead Earth eventually use their collective powers to [[NewEden restore the biosphere and create life in the oceans]].
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In
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Compare ForbiddenZone, IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace, NightmarishFactory, CrapsackWorld, GaiasLament. Frequently a byproduct of ToxicInc.
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Compare ForbiddenZone, IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace, NightmarishFactory, CrapsackWorld, GaiasLament. Frequently a byproduct of ToxicInc.any EcocidalAntagonist that is left to their own devices, including ToxicInc, a type of business that seems to just pollute for the sake of polluting.
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* ''Film/Zone39'': The titular territory has become desolate and polluted because Central has been draining resources, and as a result, Central has been misappropriating drinking water from working towns.
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* ''Film/Zone39'': The titular territory has become desolate and polluted because Central has been draining resources, and as a result, Central has been considering misappropriating drinking water from working towns.
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* Dzerzhinsk, Russia is city known for its chemical industry (including chemical weapons) and is so polluted that the average lifespan of its inhabitants is ''40''. And that two of the largest chemical waste sites have their own names (White Sea and Black Hole).
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* Dzerzhinsk, Russia is a city known for its chemical industry (including chemical weapons) and is so polluted that the average lifespan of its inhabitants is ''40''. And that two of the largest chemical waste sites have their own names (White Sea and Black Hole).
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* In ''Literature/TheLorax'', the land that was once populated by Truffula trees and various animals becomes a Polluted Wasteland when all the trees are cut down, sludge is dumped into the water and pollutants are pumped into the air. The story ends on a bittersweet, yet cautiously optimistic note when [[spoiler:a young boy is given the last Truffula seed and told to replant the forest, in hopes of bringing the area to its former glory]].
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* In ''Literature/TheLorax'', ''Literature/InfernoLarryNivenAndJerryPournelle'': The ring of the violent wasters in the Seventh Circle, previously given over to suicides and the profligate, is now mostly occupied by a barren, polluted waste of churned mud filled with garbage, toxic waste, and oily puddles, and dotted with smoke-belching factories and great strip mines. The souls of the worst polluters are sentenced here, to run through toxic slurry while chased by living bulldozers.
* ''Literature/TheLorax'': The land that was once populated by Truffula trees and various animals becomes a Polluted Wasteland when all the trees are cut down, sludge is dumped into the water and pollutants are pumped into the air. The story ends on a bittersweet, yet cautiously optimistic note when [[spoiler:a young boy is given the last Truffula seed and told to replant the forest, in hopes of bringing the area to its former glory]].
* ''Literature/TheLorax'': The land that was once populated by Truffula trees and various animals becomes a Polluted Wasteland when all the trees are cut down, sludge is dumped into the water and pollutants are pumped into the air. The story ends on a bittersweet, yet cautiously optimistic note when [[spoiler:a young boy is given the last Truffula seed and told to replant the forest, in hopes of bringing the area to its former glory]].
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* The infamous Corona Ash Dumps. The area where Flushing Meadows–Corona Park now sits used to be a nightmarish dump site back in the 1920's. Ash and street sweepings were originally brought in as landfill for what used to be marshland and it just escalated until the site was filled with literal mountains of soot, horse manure, and garbage. Nearby neighborhoods were plagued not only by the sights and smells, but rat infestations. The dump is what inspired the Valley of Ashes in Literature/TheGreatGatsby.
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* The infamous Corona Ash Dumps. The area where Flushing Meadows–Corona Park now sits used to be a nightmarish dump site back in the 1920's. Ash and street sweepings were originally brought in as landfill for what used to be marshland and it just escalated until the site was filled with literal mountains of soot, horse manure, and garbage. Nearby neighborhoods were plagued not only by the sights and smells, but rat infestations. The dump is what inspired the Valley of Ashes in Literature/TheGreatGatsby.''Literature/TheGreatGatsby''.