20 Unbelievable Photos Of Pollution In China
Progress and a growing economy can have their own drawbacks. In China, the uncontrolled rate of growth has turned the country into an environmental nightmare, leading to shocking images like these.
For one, air pollution in parts of China can be 20 times worse than the recommended safe norm. It‘s a hard problem to avoid – China’s growing economy and urbanization needs energy, and that energy comes from coal, one of the biggest sources of air pollution. Some are likening it to a nuclear winter.
Algal blooms fueled by inorganic compounds choke China’s lakes and waterways. In other places, chemicals turn the water blood red. And to top it all off, China‘s booming economy and industrialization means more urbanization and a bigger middle class – and those two things can produce stupendous amount of trash to clog the waterways as well.
More info: environmentalcrisis | theguardian.com | businessinsider.com.au (h/t: boredpanda)
Journalist Takes Sample Of Red Polluted Water From The Jianhe River
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Boy Swims In Algae-filled Water, Qingdao, Shandong
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Fishermen Row Boat In Algae-filled Chaohu Lake In Hefei, Anhui Province
Image credits: Jianan Yu
Labourer Tries To Clean Up Oil From Water, Dalian, Liaoning
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Boy Tries To Avoid Scattered Rubbish Floating On A Flooded Street In Shantou, Guangdong Province
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Child Swims In Polluted Reservoir, Pingba
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Worker Cleans Away Dead Fish At Lake In Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei Province
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Girl Walks Through Smog In Beijing, Where Small-Particle Pollution Is 40 Times Higher Than International Safety Standards
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Workers Clean Up Floating Garbage On Yangtze River
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Child Drinks Water From Stream In Fuyuan County, Yunnan Province
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Workers Try To Drain Sewage Water From Leaking Sewage Tank, Shanghang, Fujian
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Pollution From A Factory In Yutian, 100km East Of Beijing
Image credits: Peter Parks
Heavily Polluted River In Jiaxing, Zhejiang
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Buildings In Beijing Surrounded By Smog
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A Woman Collects Plastic Bottles Near A River Polluted With Reddish Dye
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Woman Walks On A Bridge Over A Polluted River, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province
Image credits: Carlos Barria
Man Walks By A Pipe Discharging Waste Water Into The Yangtze River
Image credits: William Hong
Fishermen Clean Up Oil At An Oil Spill Site Near Dalian Port, Liaoning Province
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Residents Look At A Heavily Polluted River, Zhugao, Sichuan province
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Dead Fish In Water Filled With Blueish Algae, East Lake, Wuhan
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Got wisdom to pour?
The price China pays for your cheap products from Apple computers to most of the stuff sold at Wal-Mart. And yet the world through the UN and the pollution conferences blames America for most international pollution. Perhaps we should pay more for American made goods, have fewer unnecessary cheap items in our homes, and create more jobs in America producing things with appropriate environmental safeguards – perhaps too much to ask? Some tariffs based upon the country’s pollution index might be called for to start this process.
If you don’t think this is representative of the pollution in China you have never lived there. I have.
The pollution in China is indeed severe and need high attention and efforts to make things better. But the photos in the article are not representative, in the sense that they were taken from some very bad accidents. We can also put photos from BP oil spill in the gulf, and they would be very scary and disturbing as well.
well, maybe somehow but not at all. for example that air pollution, that is like 40 times higher than international standards. that couldnt be a “bad accident”, that was just happening for about a few days. this stuff is happening in a long-time-period. but i dont understand it, even in a capitalist way. you just need simple, relative cheap rinser technique on those chimneys, and your workforce gets better health and life quality and this will lead to a better exploitation of the laboring class. the owners of the means of production should know that. if not, they should start reading some marx or lenin and stuff
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And they want the west to control emissions .
Such a damned shame.
scary
This makes for a pleasant read with my breakfast. (sarcasm) o_O
Another side is the very pleasant cheap shopping from Made in China internet stores.. SO what?
I think they need to stop spilling waste into the rivers, lakes and oceans. Factories and industries are dumping waste and destroying our environment because the regulators and decision makers all them to. Instead we should face the problem head on and not live in denial. There are alternative solutions that have been created we just choose not to implement them into our industries and societies. If we continue down this path this will only permanently ruin our ecosystem and harm our planet. We only have one and we are in no position to go find another one.
China is duh fucked up brah