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Mind-Bending Soviet Era Oil Rig City on the Caspian Sea
Neft Daşları, meaning “Oil Rocks,” was the world’s first oil-drilling platform. In recent decades, its population has dwindled, while sections have fallen into disrepair and been claimed by the sea.
Over the next decades, Neft Daşları gained accommodation blocks for workers, a bakery, a theater able to seat hundreds, shops, medical facilities, a soccer pitch and a heliport. Global leaders will gather to discuss tackling the climate crisis, driven by humans burning fossil fuels, in conference rooms only a few dozen miles away from Neft Daşları. At the end of his documentary, Wolfensberger sets out the difficult decisions he sees facing authorities: dismantle the city at enormous cost, turn it into a vacation resort or simply abandon it, “paving the way for a major ecological disaster.”
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