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Shocking Images Of China's Dire Pollution Problem
China has some stunningly beautiful natural landscapes, but, as boredpanda.com explains, they may not count for much when, in other parts of the country, pollution runs totally unchecked. China is very close in size to the USA. Yet, as The Burning Platform notes, their population is the size of the entire Western Hemisphere, plus Japan, Germany, and France. The land can not support this mass of humanity without very dire consequences, and these shocking photos show what severe pollution people have to deal with in some parts of China...
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Boy Swims In Algae-Filled Water, Qingdao, Shandong
Journalist takes a sample of red polluted water in the Jianhe River in Luoyang
Heavily Polluted River
Pollution from a factory in Yutian, 100km east of Beijing
Fishermen row a boat in the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui province
Fishermen clean up oil at an oil spill site near Dalian Port, Liaoning province
Smog In Beijing
Fisherman Covered In Algae, Chaohu Lake
Heavily Polluted River
Smog In Beijing
Child Swims In A Polluted Reservoir, Pingba
Worker cleans away dead fish at a lake in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province
Workers clean up floating garbage on the Yangtze Rive
Heavily Polluted River In Jiaxing, Zhejiang
child is reflected in a drainage ditch as he jumps over trash at a village which will soon be demolished
Buildings In Beijing Surrounded By Smog
Factory Polluting The Air
Fisherman fills his cupped palms with water from the algae-filled Chaohu Lake
Fishermen Collecting Fish In A Polluted Canal, Beijing
A woman collects plastic bottles near a river where water is polluted with a reddish dye in Dongxiang
Workers collect dead fish at a park in Shenzhen, Guangdong province,
Child drinks water near a stream in Fuyuan county, Yunnan province
Flies Gather On Railings Because Of Polluted Water, East Lake, Wuhan
Girl collects water from a puddle at a dried-up reservoir as her father stands beside her in Baofeng county
Boy tries to avoid scattered rubbish floating on a flooded street in Shantou, Guangdong province
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IF the environmental laws of the United States are just and reasoned how is it just and reasoned to purchase and import goods manufactured anywhere where these laws do not apply?
That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.
At least the Chinese can rest easy knowing that they took ur jebs.
Needless-to-say, this is what happens when oligarchs run the show. Cheap labor, no environmental laws, higher profit. They could give a flying fuck if it kills us or the Chinese, so long as they keep generating profit from the exploitation.
On a long enough timeline...
...Mother Nature will win.
No offense but there is a chinese supermarket chain in my neighborhood(one of many to hit the market) that was shut down by the epa after residents complained about the subpar sanitation standards. I thought they were just picky until i ventured to the back of the store, outside, and dayumm! Reeked like fermented fish assholes.
I'm glad the pictures posted here didn't come with smell-a-vision.
We exported production, career employment, and pollution!
All those algae blooms are caused by over use of fertilizer. And the algae blooms are sucking megatons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
We must do something to replace the CO2!
the chinese are like disgusting beverly hillbillies,
newly rich, and not a lick of sense, or taste. zero class.
"...but but but, the Chinese are soooo smart? Why do they do this, because according to all the village idiots posting here they have the Big Picture, think ahead and they buy gold!"
Where is Jim Rogers? Where is Marc Faber? Where are all the China bulls?
I've told you before and I will keep on telling you: the ONLY thing the Chinese know how to do is copy EVERYTHING (including our fiat currency system, real estate bubbles and polution) that we in the western world do. The Chinese can't organize a piss up in a brewery, wake up ZeroHedge!
and they are unlikely to have some one shouting: ""we are going to destroy the X ligarchy system," .
So, Jim, Marc, and the bulls...!
t's a good thing that pollution is a not a global problem, and all of that pollution will stay in China.....Is that why Obama says it's OK for China to burn American coal but it's not OK for America?
Been sayin that for years
Bokkenrijder, don't know about Faber, but Jim Rogers is in Singapore. Singapore is in NO way like China and, in fact, native Singaporeans complain bitterly about "PRC's", as they call the mainland Chinese.
They are already thinking about moving north into Russia. They will consume every resource until there's nothing left.
look, this is ZH... it's not so much that China wins, but the USA has to lose... and they don't care who makes it happen as long as it happens... because USA bad hurr durr...
I'm in full agreement that the USA isn't perfect, far from it... I will note that I can walk outside without a mask, swim in a river or natural spring w/o worrying if I'll die from cancer two years later, my food is for all intents and purposes clean and sanitary, municipal water and sewer is chugging along nicely doing its job, trash gets picked up, things that can be recycled are recycled, etc so on and so forth...
China is setting itself on fire just to stay warm by chasing their insane growth targets at all costs... for a country and philosphy that prides itself on the power of central planning, they sure as hell have fucked everything up...
this is why when I see "Made in China" on something, I think very hard before buying it... I may have to spend more elsewhere but the cost of not doing that is reflected here in no uncertain terms...
I see the word "unsustainable" thrown about when the USA is discussed... if ever that word applied, it does to China
Don't worry about it. Only 70% of our oxygen is derived from bodies of water. Will be tough running marathons with scuba tanks on your back, but hey.
probably the FDA not the EPA... big difference, same bullshit. I have owened a grocery and that is the domain of the FDA.. Food and Drug Admin... Or your local or state health department.
How many times are you going to edit your post?!
Swhat the edit buttons for dawg
I love how we are constantly told that in a real libertarian/anarchist/free market society, that without the wise guiding hand of govt, the capitalists will just pollute with reckless abandon and poison the whole place for generations. Well, here you go, 'progressives', here is what happens in the socialist utopia you all yearn for. If you want to see another socialist utopia and how they take care of the environment, see : USSR. FOARWARD !!
Pleeeease, Carl: You KNOW that China is an Oligarchy in a cheap red dress.
How many 'princelings' have been buying up RE in Cali, Hawaii, NYC, Vancouver, etc. with CASH???
It is a vast merchantilist labor camp with a core of 'party' hierarchy wealth aggregators that live like feudal aristocrats in comparison to the peasant underclass..
It's convenient that no Marxist government is ever, really Marxist if it somehow discredits Marxism. Has the thought ever occured to you that collapse into an oligarcy is the natural progression of Marxism, and thus the USSR, NK, and PRC are all shining examples of Marxism.
Duplicate
outsourced jobs, outsourced pollution.
I recall as a child in the late 60s/early 70s watching public service ads on US television networks, with disturbing images of pollutants dumping into rivers, and I recall stories about Lake Eerie on fire. That unusual degree of awareness in the mass media seems to have gone away, but the pollution hasn't. It just takes a different path, and comes back later, further transformed.
+100, they don't give a shit, they eat organic, drive Tesla, live in Aspen, drink Pelegrino, and have armed guards at the gate.
those motherfuckers are never going to care about us or what we need. Its up to us to do for ourselves.
They are on the path to Elysium!
My backyard requires no laws and it looks pristine. The problem is not a lack of laws, the problem is a lack of private property and too much regulation is favor of government control over said land. No person who owns that land would ever allow such a thing.
No, it's a lack of respect FOR the land. I dont need a law to tell me I shouldn't shit where I eat.
"No person who owns that land would ever allow such a thing. " no natural person... if not psychopathic
but we live in a world where we allow un-natural persons to have the same rights as natural persons, including land ownership and land husbandry
and we allow those un-natural persons to grow up to the size of megacorps, and we give them an ethos that is focused on profits only. that's... institutionalized psychopathy
regulation is what megacorps should have because they aren't natural persons. but in practice lobbyists take most regulations and make sure with them that they damage Small and Medium Biz more
or, in this case, they shift dirty production to where there is no regulation yet
so no, it's not lack of private property. it's lack of understanding for what corporations are, versus natural persons. and the lack of understanding of what regulations should be
Over time it's dawned on me that the oft-touted 'libertarian' solution - just let someone own the oceans/air/rivers, and they won't allow them to be polluted' - overlooks the fact that it may be more profitable for that person/institution to charge others to pollute it, than to keep it clean. Meanwhile, the locals are poisoned. And you can guarantee the locals themselves aren't getting a cut of the fees.
That's what class action lawsuits are for, dude. Provided the legal apparatus isn't tilted against a successful outcome either through legislation or bought judges, which it is. See how interlocking pieces are designed to maintain the status quo? You can't have a mixed system. You either have almost all local control or almost all central control, but you can't have an even mix of both, because an even mix of both is unstable.
There is one Jeb that I hope they do take... his father had been the US ambassador to the Chinese.
"That which does not kill us, makes us stronger. "
I'm blessed to be a rather healthy person.
Yet, I would conjecture that persons suffering from such as arthritis, herpes, hemorrhoids, encroaching blindness, tinnitius, and a whole host of other ailmensts and discomforts and debilitations and pains would differ with you...
Of all the cliches out there, that might be the single worst one.
Of all the cliches out there, that might be the single worst one.
You are welcome to your downvote.
Enjoy your osteoporosis -it will only make you stronger!
if those fucking slime-dogs would have invested in the S&P 500 in 2007 they wouldn't be suffering right now, fuck them in their filthy impoverished assholes.
Wow, I am stunned that so many here see through this Nietzscheism.
Very true, it only makes you stronger if it's a psychological issue and mental/life challenge that is not permanent and does not damage your body and its ability to be 100% healthy. One good MI and your notion changes that something that does not kill you can easily ruin your health for decades to come with no reprieve.
PTSD bitchez
There is a variation which my brain surgeon neighbour often mentions: "that what doesn't make you stronger, makes you weaker". Sounds better in Dutch though: Baat het niet, dan schaadt het wel".
Because it is only 1.47 at WalMart. And that shit is really far away. So all cool, right? /sarc
The other people problem. They are in some far away place, working for very little with a government and industry that doesn't give a shit because those are the other people. The hipster drinking over-priced coffee and bragging about his new iDoohickey doesn't worry or care about the other people. The elites who claim they care but only see the other people in carefully staged photo ops. The other people have always been with us and likely always will be and we can talk, bitch and blame somebody else for what we've done to the other people.
Yes - Note how often those who preach loudest about "sustainability" tend to be some of the most hypocritical scum on Earth, like the human garbage clogging up the airspace at Davos to market bigger government and a TAX "to save the planet." A fucking joke, and the sheeple eat it up, data and logic and reason and previous cons be damned.
i don't know what imaginary scenario you're ranting on about - your comment wasn't even a reply to the comment above you in the thread - you went off on some random tangent.
however, the fact remains that sustainability in its true sense is a good thing, and those who practice it will be prepared for the coming collapse, with simple things like:
true sustainability is not a ploy, it's simple common sense, you should try getting some.
and contrary to your straw-man comments, i don't favor any sort of tax, and never will; all government should be ended.
Stacking...
That sounds good but you, like many others, remove yourself from who those people are in the pictures. Where do they start so they too can have what you are prescribing. Most of us have little empathy. To just be near those polluted waters of China; never mind touching it or FFS drinking????? that shit will not make you stonger.
As Supertramp put it in 'Quite Right' they solve their problems citing cliches.
Remember the shit we buy from Walmart/China is not good for you and probably contains toxic waste we sent to China to get rid of.
i can't live other peoples' lives for them or try to fix problems on the other side of the planet. maybe, start where you are?
live simply, so that others may simply live?
how's that for cliches?
and i don't shop at walmart or do much shopping at all.
I know liberals who don't do any of that. Yet they preach it. Then they talk about how 2400 sq ft house is too small and snicker with contempt at my (willfully and intententionally purchased/downsized) 1200 Sq ft house.
I have chickens, grow a garden, and have a small 'eco footprint' as it were. And I'm as non-liberal (in the modern sense) as a person can be.
But the libtards think it's agreat idea to use government to force OTHER people to live the way they think is right despite the fact that they themselves only pay lip service to such things. They follow the example of their icon, Al Gore.
Hypocrites every one.
Actions speak louder than words bitchez.
@ Stacking - It's clear that I wasn't replying to you, so come off your horse. That said, I agree with you that there is such a thing as real respect for the environment, not to be equated or confused with the religion of the Carbon Nazis.
you seemed to want to demonize the word sustainability, and those who use it.
true sustainability is a good thing.
and it's not a horse, it's a mule!
I absolutely repudiate the hijacked movement c/o the fucking UN, but certainly not the concept itself. Rgds
Correct. Either do not allow their importation or place a HEAVY excise tax on those goods coming into port. We might even be able to fund our federal government with just that tax, and only that tax. You know, like in the early 1800's.
"We might even be able to fund our federal government with just that tax"
hahahahaha! "we" might be able to fund "our" federal government. how cute. perhaps you still think that "our" government is of, by, and for the people, as well, just like they taught you in civics class?
my view tends to be a bit more realistic, or cynical if you prefer:
tax is a method by which the owners/rulers of a land, extract/extort wealth from the peasants and commoners, whom they view as property, like livestock.
the federal government is completely bankrupt and overextended so egregiously that no excise tax will ever pay off the debts that your rulers have foisted onto your children and your children's children, but, that fact itself is the cloud's sliver lining. complete collapse of government is something i yearn for, it's not something to try to avoid by a misguided notion that the government ought to be funded, or that it is somehow "ours".
the us federal government should properly be regarded as a foreign, hostile, occupying power, and the greatest enemy of the people.
These conversations often degenerate into arguments about what is and what should be.
You're both right.
If you believe that governments are inevitable, then it's reasonable to debate how they should function, and what their scope should be... regardless of what they have actually devolved into in our present time.
governments are not inevitable.
and i would rather focus my energy discussing how we as free and independent persons, can solve social problems, instead of feeding the monster that is government with my time and energy.
Such is the price we humans must pay for cheap plastic pumpkins and affordable bedazzled iPhone sleeves at the 4,177 Wal-Mart stores in the USA.
HH, Don't forget the computer you are typing on.
Most of my components come from Tiawan, which is sort of China, but not. I am under the impression they are a little less wreckless with their pollution there, but I could be wrong. Much of the rest is from California. Some small bits from Japan.
Anyone who regulary spends their money at WalMart does not care about the future of our country. They care only about saving a few percent and are a part of our problem.. not our solution. I say burn them all to the motherfucking ground.
Not everyone has the luxury of living those ideals.
And most retailers sell the same made in China products.
Thrift stores are good. Dollar stores are cheaper for a lot of the same stuff. And you can find deals at ethnic grocers, or sometimes green grocers/farm stands.
A lot of people, especially in rural areas, don't have that many options any more. And a lot more don't have the dough.
Lucky me we are still middle income and I live in a 'burb with a lot of options in a short distance, so minimial driving. For food I usually get what I can at Aldi first (except meat), fill in with the meat and veg specials at a locally owned grocery, then a big box store (meijer or wal-mart, depending on what I need). Also a monthly trip to Trader Joes because they aren't so close, and a half dozen trips a year to a warehouse store.
Other stuff...internet, thrift store, craigslist, big box, etc....where ever I can find the best value.
it's really bad... I've never been in China, but I've been in Iran(which is supposed to be a little bit better, or so the statistics say).
Scheduled 2 days for museums in Tehran. Ended up leaving night we arrived; just couldn't breath. After 3 hours outside, my gf had a bleeding nose and I had a throat ache for 3 days. That was before Norwuz(their New Year) when city was supposedly much better, because many left. Don't want to know how it's in normal times...
as far as I'm concerned, the only growth miracle in Asia is that it'll be probably void of any life in less than 100 years at the current pace...
AND THAT IS WHY THEY ARE BUYING HOMES HERE
Everywhere is more or less middle class. Most of the planet is not poor and not starving, obesity now the biggest issue.
Cars, traffic jams, air pollution, smartphones, home computers, an apartment/condo in a building - that is what life is like for most humans.
Middle class - on a global sense. Not middle class Norway or Manhattan or Qatar.
Two big surprises with air:
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Kathmandu, Nepal. Both are in valleys at elevation. You would think that with both nations being very sparsely populated that the air would be pristine, but the inversion layers in these two cities are nasty, just as bad as Tehran or Beijing. Auto exhaust floats up and just hangs there for weeks.
Denver, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Mexico City....
when you say walmart all i picture is some 34 year old fat as shit, woman in cheap synthetic clothes, with red greasy face with three plump childern and a cart full of made in china trinkets and garage sugar(HFCS)foods. one look and ya want to run, but nowhere to hide-there everywhere-future zombies when the snap deal goes bust. alice coper-I GOT TA GET OUT ON HERE...
Fuck it let the red rain down. Hedgeless you will buy foreign made goods from China in COSTCO, Target and well any frigging big box retailer. Your hate for Wal Mart makes no sense to me to be honest.
I bet you wear those polo shirts not made inthe USA. The hate just gets old. I guess we need to add another 1.5 million people employed by Wal Mart to the unemployed list. I am sure I am going to see all the welfare notes pop up and yet more employees at Wal Mart make alot more then minimum wage that is never discussed.
My neighbor is a mechanic with them and makes alot more.
Buy, sell, and trade locally; stop sending your capital to Wal-Mart, Wall Street, and The Great Wall. Give your capital a chance to come back to you and youw family. Do not support globalization. We buy made in the USA clothing and textiles whenever we can, which is much of the time.
Hedge I do my best to buy local and USA made stuff. I am in Arkansas hehe. Not a native though. I own a local business and suport those that support me. Local is where it is at!! +100 if I could Hedge.
I do buy certain items at Wal Mart as the same identical product is a buck or two more and I am nto going to pay that for the same identical item.
Chinese, master race.
Long Environmental Clean-up Industry! HALIBURTON!
And if a single microscopic SPECK of dust comes out of the tailpipe of my car I'm fined $1000 and thrown in jail.
You need to move to a state that does not extort you and your means of transportation!
Thanks, Henry Kissinger!
I think he got an award for that. Where would we be without Henry? Well, there would be millions of people still alive.
We got a couple of panda bears thanks to henry. Just because our manufacturing sector got gutted .....
Table tennis boomlet, as well.
(I think they got inertial rocket guidence systems that work, first time, every time.)
I didn't know Henry got an Oscar?
What's the big deal? The rivers are very colorful.
#3, "Heavily Polluted River" appears to be teeming with life. Looks like mostly plant matter, not even algae.
It is a true testament to the Chinese that they do not have civil unrest or mass migrations with such a colourful landscape.
Propaganda at its best.
Take the last pic...... and then take a pic from New Orleans after Katrina. Pollution? Or disaster?
Photoshop is cool.
All that trash was computer generated, right?
Hey, don't feel left out: the USA has it's dumps and landfills and poisoned waterways as well.
Detroit is host to quite a few superfund sites. Guess how many. Don't peek until you guess!
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/
-Care hazard a guess how many tonnes of nuclear waste the US has stacked or buried or sitting in pools like those that failed so catastrophically at Fukishima??
A friend had a wierdly heavy 'storm' where he lives in the UK a few years ago and got torrents of water flowing through his property that had washed down from a local council estate. After the storm had abated his property looked like that flooded street scene in China.
Floods tip over garbage cans and dumpsters and then distribute their contents far and wide.
Per your link Detroit has 1...uno.
Kalamazoo seems to have the most in MI at a glance.
Second to last pic.
The guy has a processed food gut… And notice his tan lines, he’s a residential window salesman.
Notice the pic titled, "child is reflected in a drainage ditch as he jumps over trash at a village which will soon be demolished"
1. The kid is black.
2. Where is the strt point for his jump?
You said it yourself. The kid is black. He coulda jumped from anywhere in the camera frame. Fuckers are close to superman when it comes to jumping.
He is not black.
Both of you are ignorant idiots.
There are many types of skin colour and tone (NOT RACE YOU MORON) amongst Han Chinese, and I see this skin tone every so often - today was one instance whilst eating lunch.
Not common, but it most certainly does exist among Chinese natives.
Let me guess - you two are American Key Board Jockeys, never left your State?
Your sarcasm detector has failed you.
You are racist, you assumed black means African.
It's not just that image. Most of the images have been shopped or given labels that are clearly either outright lies or wrong. I've lived on a lake where, at dusk, flies gathered in much heavier concentrations than they do in the picture above.
What a bunch of bullshit pictures. I can't believe people still fall for the pristine pictures that show "worst case scenario", but no context. "Here's a sad oil spil picture. Please cry." How about some context? How much oil? Where and when? Was it eventually, largly, absorbed by the surrounding environment? Cleaned up by anyone? Did it happen in 1991?
Sure, let's all get completely off of all petrolium products and go back to riding horses and dying at 35 years old. Awesome.
And if I take a piss in my backyard of 4 acres I'm arrested and thrown in jail.
I am not sure about the pissing part but, whatever you do, don't collect rainwater.
Unless you like prison of course.
I went to China to manage a project for construction of a research vessel. Had zillions of astonishing discoveries, one of which was that they have ZERO procedures for conrtol of toxic materials. After I saw them sandblasting the highly toxic anti-fouling coating off a hull into the wind, and onto/into everything downwind, I decided NOT to build in China and took the project to Oz instead.
In my opinion, in the generations to come, China will be ground zero for massive epidemics of cancer, birth defects, deformations, mutations, etc from toxic chemicals - which will be impossible to clean up.
The future Chinese will be looking VERY hard for clean land to move to and to live on. Are you listening Vlad ????
Fuck 'em.
That's just how I feel about it.
I feel the same way about south of the border immigrants.
They are fucking us ( the middle class, that makes things and makes things work) out of the ability to provide for our families.
And cheap shit at Wally World does not square the deal.
Fuck 'em all but six.
if it were only that easy
stuff kinda moves around - in the water and the air
I'm sure that cancer rate is there now, but the data is hidden.
they are not "fucking us"...what they are doing is called competing.
they are trying to earn a living just like we are.
and it's not really the chinese or the mexicans that are making life difficult, it's the oligarchs, the owners of this country, who are extracting wealth from the people by means of taxation (theft), inflation (counterfeiting), and misappropriation (cronyism).
attention-addled, instant-gratification-needing, idiot americans deserve the leadership they've chosen and the hell it's brought them; and it's only going to get worse from here.
"The future Chinese will be looking VERY hard for clean land to move to and to live on. Are you listening Vlad ???? "
I agree to some extent. Russia has acreage and vast resources.
Still, it remains to be seen if China can outlast it's own debt-fiat generated bubble, and demographic future..
The Chinese have become very good at copying other economic regimes; but, proof of innate innovation has not been forthcoming.
Haven't they already bought like half of California?
Only the ones who actually reside there, have adopted some local customs and are known and liked will get to keep that shit. When the US comes apart at the seams, I'm not going to respect the property rights of some of the carpetbaggers who reside out of state*, much less somebody across an ocean. They're never going to use it once it gets to that point.
*You hear that, Ted Turner? When the US is in shambles, I'm going to hunt Oryx on your land.
Bought it from the Japanese, no doubt, that over paid for it in the eighties, I beleive.
Ehhh Siberia is cold as HELL is HOT, cant support large populations either. They will be going to where the weather is nice and where you took your project. They will be coming to OZ and NZ by the millions, mark my words.
Talking about birth defects, I had some chinese friends in
college & I noticed a lot of them had slow speech & facial
deformation......probably from metal poisoning and that was
in the 80's.
Very unusual for so many of them to be defective....
hero
The problem is that China does not have "Native Americans" to put into commercials like this and this to help stop pollution.
See the difference it made, other than outsourcing our industry base?
Not sure you are right.
- I think there are over 600 Languages & over 200 different peoples in China
They could easily portray young girls crying and working in city factories since their home was destroyed by progress (by the Government) or their home was destroyed by Industry, Pollution, foreign states.
No. The Culture of China may not permit feeling sorry for people stuck in a location with pollution.
The Chinese Culture and Government Culture may tell people to move, go to cities, go to work in factories, leave the family home, ignore problems with family community health, ignore problems with family community pollution.
Please look at this again.
It was heavily laced sarcasm.
One can easily pull up images of the North America in the late 19th and early to late mid 20th century and see similar sights.
Or, one can sing along to the song "sixteen tons", about how one was more or less owned by one's employer.
I am well versed in history, and family stories, of how "wonderful" times past were.
Much like there was no OSHA back in the day, and no MSDS sheets, no child labor laws, and I very much doubt there is a Chinese Upton Sinclain writing the Jungle now. If there is, I am confident the censors of worse will stomp it out.
Then we have India, Bangladesh, and scores of other countries that make those scenes look downright pleasant.
As long as people get their product cheaply, no one is going to care how its made, what suffering went into it, or what the ULTIMATE cost may be.
This is very much a true Faustian bargain we have made.
There are some positively horrifying photographs out of India.
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-neti...
dont be so culturally ignorant, vaquero.
just because there's no floating human corpses in your rivers, doesn't mean it's wrong!
Collateral damage, Fuck it!
/s
Its a shame the inviornmental industry is so messed up. All that pollution could be handled so much better.
Tipping points apply to all systems. Maybe they need a more centrally controlled government, yeah, thats the ticket.
Stunning photos. Im sad to see children in those deplorable conditions, they had no say in the matter.
PhotoShop propaganda.
You're a fucking moron. Years ago the businesses all started warning their employees to not eat locally grown food when on business in China due to the amount of heavy metals in the produce. I cannot imagine how bad it is now. But if its all Photoshop, by all means, eat those apples from the grove just outside of Chongqing.
I heard that China cornered the market in heavy metals ... oh, rare earths
China has a unique geological structure in which
the land is unusually rich in metals of all kinds.
There's uranium all over the place casuing birth defects
& cancer.
hero
We photoshopped some folks.
Yeah. I hear that chinese grown organic broccoli is really good for you. They have it at walmart so it must be good.
America? Fuck yeah!
Looks like Detroit.......
Remember that anti-pollution commercial in the US from many years ago with the teary indian who gets garbage chucked at his feet, or the woodsy owl, give a hoot, don't pollute? can anyone confirm if china has any anti-pollution themed television commercials or print ads? Granted, the US and many other countries have done their share of turning pristine countryside into polluted wastelands, and those pictures, while disgusting, may be isolated areas in a gigantic country, but at least we're trying to fix our mess in the US (yes, intentional rhyme). It would be nice to know if any such efforts exist in China.
but but they have >+ 7% gdp
This must be where Soylent Green comes from it's people .Thought these people where smart .
While it is true that raw greed has a bad habit of skull fucking mother nature, don't forget that the worst enemy of the environment is poverty.
Poverty is the bankers bastard son.
Don't blame the son...
this nothing in compair to Charnobyl or Fuckyoushima.
Who's oligarchs are worse? What a contest! And what a network of blame and crime we weave. While Chinese oligarchs buy homes in California and raise their kids there.
This is where I can become a supporter of the death penalty. Except by paricipating in this mess, I too am death, and penalty worthy. What a sad sack of shit we all are.
I see a lot of upside to the situation. Hire workers to gather the dead fish to can/sell them. Screen the algae and dry and process it as instant soup base. Sort of a Soylent Green minus the human. The Chinese poor will eat anything.
Don't forget to buy your farm raised shrimp and tilapia at Walmart Chinamart. Quality Made in China.
/sarc
You can drop the sarc tag. A lot of that stuff does say "Product of China" on the label. Or maybe it used to and they dropped it because people don't like eating food from China, the land of the not-so-clean.
Do not buy any of that garbage. They pump their farm raised fish so full of antibiotics and other garbage that it truly shocks me that the USDA and FDA allow that food to be sold in the USA.
I agree with you not to buy it. However I'm perplexed at your faith in USGOV agencies.
Mao's Great Leap Forward
You guys with you’re your big TVs created that I-Pollution over there.
What are P00k1e's Laws?
- I once put together some Teeth's Laws, but they were just for Survival or sustainment or some specific scenario
I guess I'll have to consider getting up to speed on Environmental, Population, Demographics Data.
Seems like we should limit buying from foreign sources, and should limit our buying of TVs, Cars, Houses, size of house or apartment, or whatever. It is really not my area of expertise.
It's your big TV's, not You're TVs.
I own what I consider to be a big TV.
How the hell did I make Joe Chinaman pollute his country?
I lived in Taiwan years ago during their industrialization drive. For those who don't know, Taiwanese are Chinese, primarily from Fu Jian province from where they came over to the island about 200 years ago.
I saw the discolored rivers and the flowing dead fish in Taiwan 20 years ago. Today, no one in Taiwan drinks water if it's not run through a filteration system first. Air was nasty, even 1 foot floating white smog INSIDE on the ground floors of buildings!
Today is much cleaner, except for the permanent heavy metals in the water table. Even back in the day the people in Taiwan laughed that they won't eat fish caught around Taiwan because it's too polluted, ha ha ha, they'd laugh about it.
A much younger Typing Typer energetically pointed out the pitch black stream water with the hundreds of dead fish floating by, the Chinese in Taiwan laughed at how upset Typing Typer was about it, ha ha ha, "You can't handle our style!" was the attitude.
But mainland China is orders of magnitude larger. No land mass can take that kind of abuse. Too bad the Chinese idea that they can just tough it through any condition is going to have a major disastrous impact as this goes on.
Congrats, Typing Tiger, one of the best, sincere comments I've read here!
> Today, no one in Taiwan drinks water if it's not run through a filteration system first.
Most people in North America and Europe don't either....
Get off of public water now before it's too late
This is what Industrial Revolution England would have looked like if they had had plastics, modern chemical products and a billion people
Don't worry, we just got China to agree that 2030 will be its peak year for CO2 emissions, so we got that goin for us, which is nice...
If it's this fucked up, everyone who buys iPhone and everything else that China makes is fucking guilty. You could have said no but you didn't.
Competition. It provides us with a better chance for our genes to be the ones to carry on, so we should encourage them to continue as much as possible.
Bullshit.
I never ever put a gun to any chinaman's head and forced him to make my iphone.
The choice was, is, and always lies with them.
This is communism at its peak... but this is also capitalism and democracy at its worst. We are all to blame for the mess of the planet and the human race.
Bingo. I love how all the 'environmentally conscious hybrid drivers love to flash their icrap, Timberland, and north face shit, all made by slaves in countries with no pollution laws.
Out-fucking-standing.
ahh...never mind...
Examples of why you should always read food labels. If it says "Product of China", do not purchase it.
The day will come when we have to nuke them before they destroy the planet.
All this fussing over economic crisis, oil and geopolitical wars is nothing compared to the mess we have to face for destroying the planet. But we are destroying us. The planet will recover from all this pollution and radiation. Will take millions of years but it will recover after we are long gone.
It all starts with us the "rich" debt driven consumer. We've demanded cheaper goods and we have wholeheartedly voted with our dollars allowing the companies that designed our crap to shop the world for the lowest bidder. If it isn't China it will be another poor country out there with lower wages.
Consumerism, planned obsolescence, nice shiny credit card, fashion, narcissim, etc all have a role in this.