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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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My Grand father was a farmer, had 150 acres and use to make stuff he needed. Straighten nails to use again and save binder twin from the bails.
My father made his own lawn furniture and cupboards.
I bought mine but make other things because I have a made in China welder, plazma, break, battery tools etc.
My kids buy everything; made in China plastic lawn furniture, household gadgets, everything
Their cell phones are Korean.
Unfortunately, this phenomenon is not just restricted to China... anyone been to India lately? Or any other 'developing' nation for that matter?
Just spoke to a Chinese lady here in USA about our kids (same age) going to college next year. Her kid scored a high SAT, great grades and of course was in Key Club (nearly 100% of Asian students join). Obvious to me the Chinese parents push their kids for years to study for the SAT. I am just not impressed.
So I said to her if the Chinese kids in USA are so smart then why is China so polluted. The problem is that Chinese are poor problem solvers. They just memorize exam questions.
I said look you know my son, he never studied for SAT and he doesn't give a shit about getting into Stanford. But he's a brilliant problem solver who started a chess club at school and he's never been beaten by any of the SAT test champs. Yeah Ryan Cho, Alex Lu, Tristan Chan. None of those academic hotshots can play chess well enough to beat my son. I think someday he or someone like him will help China solve their pollution problem.
I said it in such a tone as to keep it friendly but yeah she knows I'm right. Chinese dna can NOT solve problems!
SAT doesn't measure how smart a kid is. It only measures how weathy his parents are and how obedient he is. That's it. SAT has been used as the gate to keep those from the poor and those who can think on their own out.
Let me quote Noam Chomsky:
“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
Its hierarchy 101. Sadly humanity isnt really past the chimp stage yet.
Let us know when Western DNA solves the problem of one billion 300 million people living in the same space as 300 million people live. I have a suspicion that problem is not going to be solved by playing chess really well.
Or maybe Western corporations already have the answer and are trying to figure out a way to get paid for it.
Nature or Nurture?
In 1981 a Chinese government official came to Toronto to see how our sewage treatment plants operated. I took him around to some of the unique ones then back to the office. He saw an ISCO water sampler and asked the price. $7000 Canadian and it is made in USA. At that price he said he could hire round the clock people to take manual samples for more than a year. He had 1 child and would loose his job if he (his wife) had another.
He belonged to the Peoples Republic of China, they owned him just like we owned the sampler.
The sampler did specific things and that was all. It was not capable of doing anything else. I was not designed to do anything else. Problem solving is important but so is our individuality. at least to a westerner. I do not believe that those people in the photos have any individuality.
But then I remember the indoctrinating ones each year from 3 thru 6 showing photos and movies of the dire pollution "problem" in the DC US. Then as an adult I realized that if you only focus on where there is a problem, and even zoom in close, you can make anything seem dire. Add in some lies like Gore, and you could have people so FUDed that they'd send you money or something.
The banksters need to repay us.
They also said that the world was going to freeze over. Now it's going to burn up. LOL
All in all, my first real exposure to Zionism.
Paradise.
Build higher, problem solved.
Using pictures with "children" to add extra emotional impact is manipulative. It appears that a journalist searched out these images to make a point and, quite possibly, to overstate their point. We have algae problems, fish kills, and landfills in North America too. China may be a little worse than us? Hard to say with a more unbiased investigation into the matter. If so, it will definitely be interesting to see how they manage it.
They could use some global warming and chemtrails to fix things up.
What say you 50 cent bloggers?
These people are so sick....I've seen pruple & orange
rivers too.
Green Algae is due to nitrogen fertilizer but I don't know
the cause for other colors such as red & orange.
The place should be filled with industrial heavy metals
such as cadnium, lead, phosphate & mercury.
hero
Who's betting that when you buy your cheap made in china spirulina or chlorella tablets you know they are really selling you toxic green river algae?
Why is this "liberal garbage" even posted on ZH?
Isn't there a consensus here that humans couldn't possibly cause harm to the environment and less regulation is needed o that we can compete in these free enterprises?
The free market doesn't put up with this. This is a consequence of communism/socialism. Where there is private ownership there is accountability. Where there is gov't ownership there is moral hazard.
An example might help. The environmental movement recently shut down the building of a steel plant in LA. It was to be the cleanest plant ever built and the first in the US since 1950. Instead the production was sent to China where there are no regulations. So the free market was willing to pay the price for a more environmentally friendly solution and the special interest groups (socialist) stopped it.
Yet the Japanes managed to grow to a major economic power (before their crash) without fucking up the environment....in fact the Japanese maintain everything in pristine condition.....nuclear power plants excepted.
Ignorance about how much of Japans natural landscape has been demolished for development since the modern era began.
Ignorance about Fukushima, Minamata Bay, and much more.
Yes Japan is prisitine only if you pay attention to the government PR and never the reality.
And millions are moving all around the world. Within decades this is what your country will look like. They only care about money. They are nasty , dirty people with no regard for the environment.
It just isn't China that's in the shit. Try Dhaka ,Manila or even Thimby, Bhutan. .
Don't forget the Bronx.
I've lived in Asia almost 25 years now. It is not just "China", and the root of the cause is that people just dump and throw shit everywhere. Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo less so. But go to any other major city (or rural area) and people just don't care they throw garbage out of car windows like its the natural thing to do. So is it any suprise that construction, industrial, medical wastes are also just dumped like it is the normal thing to do?
What is 100 times more worrying than the pollution in China, is the food chain.
Sounds a lot like the ghetto black people in my neighborhood. Fucking animals.
The pictures of progress
What Confucius will think about this ? Asia: where you were taught in ancient time (before the Marxist materialist cultural revolution) to live in harmony with your environment, be it material or spiritual realms...
The true cost of Wally world selling everything it can below what it would cost in the US to manufacture it. You won't see any of that shit on a happy little wally world commercial with their clerks impeccible dressed trying to help customers. Bullsshhiiiiiit. One of that company's biggest victories was moving all health care costs to the government as opposed to them paying for it in the ACA. What a shame.
The problem is they have 2 bilion people who need to eat.....that is the problem...overpopulated by a billion or so...
Imagine what it would be like if they hadn't enacted their one child policy.
w00t let's abolish the EPA. I'm sure it would end totally different because America is exceptional.
The exceptional part of America was our legal system, it's not some ego trip, but a rare gov't limiting, right guaranteeing system; now mostly for the history books.
Those the are anti-EPA are against the special interests that (like all regulatory bodies) have taken over. There are extreme unintended consequences of their policies. A few examples:
hybrid batteries do far more damage to the environment than they off-set in carbon
cloth bags have the enviro fooprint of over 200 plastic bags, if you don't recycle
nuclear energy is by far the best choice for the environment, but he EPA fill not allow for the waste to be processed
the production of solar panels is an environment disaster and inefficient
I could go on, the point is they are just another agency that has fallen to special interest
You can thank Clinton for this.
He made 'em preferred trading partner.
Why you so like that.
You want cheap shit we sell you cheap shit.
You no takee pitcha. We make numba one happy thing of good fortune for you why you comprain ah?
Stupid Quai lo
What about the pollution and environmental damage that comes from mining gold and refining it. When it's 50k an ounce the Earth is going to take a shit-kicking. God think Earth can take it in the end and will be fine after we are long gone.
genius...we export pollution. Theey pollute themselves for our benefit! I don't see a problem...well till they are all dead
I know where all that $9.99 "all you can eat shrimp buffet" comes from
Bon appetite folks.
You want the cheapest food in the world...they'll send it to you.
Those guys digging those dead fish out of the water weren't doing it to clean the water...they were harvesting them for the western markets.