Dystopia

Just a simple search of dystopia will give you this definition: "an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one." In no way, shape, or form does this sound the least bit pleasant. Looking farther in this topic lead me to an article titled "Dystopia at the Bay." Dystopia, contrary to having such a blatant definition, can be understood in many different ways. This article tells the story of a man who finds "dystopia" at the a train station simply because the trains were shut down because of a power glitch. After announcing the shut down of the trains he heard the news story about a controversial voter topic of building new condominiums. He eventually comes to the thought of "a city without its nurses, its teachers, its artists, its waiters, its bus drivers, its cops, its musicians and writers and grandmothers as residents is a monoculture — as sterile as a forest of a single commercial tree species" (Egan). All this thinking came out of a simple news story. 

Basically dystopia can come in all ways and means. Not only does this story show the true nature of dystopia but it also reveals how people truly think. I feel like people ignore their inner thoughts on the environment and all they have to offer to it. If people do their duty to the environment, given all the take from it, the world can avoid dystopia and the dreaded consequences it comes with.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/opinion/dystopia-by-the-bay.html?_r=0