Photo gallery: Desdemona's 50 Doomiest Photos of 2010

[Barrett808]

Here are the most doom-laden photos of 2010, chosen by scale, impact, what’s at stake, or the particular that embodies the general. The three most frequently represented events are the Pakistan flood (seven photos), the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill (ten), and desertification/freshwater depletion (nine).

News coverage of the Pakistan flood fell off dramatically in the U.S.; CNN called the Haiti earthquake “the worst big story of the year,” even though the U.N. has stated that Pakistan flood damage exceeds that of the 2004 tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. Desdemona imagines that the U.S. public can’t be allowed to realize that the U.S.S. Pakistan, from which the U.S. launches much of its land war in Asia, is hulled and sinking.

There was precious little coverage anywhere of the record flooding in central and west Africa, in spite of a UN bulletin calling it the “largest number of people affected and dying from flooding" on record. It was very hard to find any photos of these floods. ...

Photo gallery: 50 Doomiest Photos of 2010

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[XemaSab]

2. That first photo is at least 10 years old

:P

[hatrack]

3. Yeah, I think Sierra ran that back in . . . . 2000?

Not that it isn't good n' doomy.

:hi:

[XemaSab]

4. Sounds like a candy bar... the Good N' Doomy

Made with GMO HFCS, palm oil, non-shade-grown coffee beans, tropical nuts, cacao, and tiger penises all in a styrofoam package. :P

[Barrett808]

5. Yeah, I just couldn't resist it.

:)