{"id":851,"date":"2012-01-25T10:45:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T15:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/?p=851"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:34:17","slug":"10-places-abandoned-because-of-man-made-environmental-catastrophes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2012\/01\/10-places-abandoned-because-of-man-made-environmental-catastrophes\/","title":{"rendered":"10 places abandoned because of man-made environmental catastrophes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_852\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-852\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2012\/01\/10-places-abandoned-because-of-man-made-environmental-catastrophes\/060425_chernobyl_big\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-852\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-852 \" title=\"Kindergarten classroom in Chernobyl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/060425_chernobyl_big-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Childrens toys and gas masks litter a kindergarten classroom in Pripyat, Ukraine, just a few miles from Chernobyl.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/060425_chernobyl_big-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/060425_chernobyl_big.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Childrens toys and gas masks litter a kindergarten classroom in Pripyat, Ukraine, just a few miles from Chernobyl. Image courtesy of National Geographic<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need to say much as the pictures in this story tell the tale. And this story is sad enough, but the truth is this is a very short list of the places we have managed to ruin to the point where they become uninhabitable; there are many others. There are thousands of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/superfund\/sites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SuperFund<\/a>&#8221; sites in the US alone!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/earth-matters\/wilderness-resources\/photos\/10-places-abandoned-because-of-man-made-environmental-cat-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the slideshow on the Mother Nature Network by clicking here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t need to say much as the pictures in this story tell the tale. And this story is sad enough, but the truth is this is a very short list of the places we have managed to ruin to the point where they become uninhabitable; there are many others. There are thousands of &#8220;SuperFund&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178,383],"tags":[333,341,338,337,334,345,344,343,340,335,332,342,336,339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}