gallya or we will make a new planet our home. The US already has a one way mission to mars underway. It’s expected to start sometime in the next 10 years.
@gallya If we keep living like this we will all die. Just look at how many trees are cut down every minute, less trees more CO2 and less breathable oxygen, we are destroying the ozone layer sooner or later almost everything will eventually perish
@gallya And if we don't? We *Still* do not have a cure for cancer, the Black death, or Zika what if they wipe us out. The Black death basically killed 50% of the population with less social interaction than we have now. You never know anything can wipe us out
I have been in conditions like this whilst in India. The atmosphere so thick with pollution you can see the particles in the air, and difficult to breathe without coughing. Luckily for me, I was able to move from those areas quite quickly as I was travelling... but for many people, this is their home. This can never be right.
As I'm from Ulan-Bator city, Mongolia, I approve of this video. We have terrible air pollution in winter especially in the morning and evening. There's no way to go out without protective mask. I hope we could solve the problem effectively soon.
Enkhnamar Enkhbold Nobody is blaming you for keeping your homes warm in the winter. That's the price of communism. No electricity in your homes and electricity is crucial if you want cleaner heat. Perhaps your government should look towards clean coal instead.
A lot of Americans who oppose 'green' initiatives don't realize that this is what many industrialized cities in the US were like prior to the EPA and the clean air act. The underlying point of this video is also pertinent: it's not just the change itself, but also the unpredictability that is wreaking havoc ....
The problem is not that many people don't care about enviroment, just that no actually well thought proposals are put forward, i am all for saving the planet, but i don't think banning cows and airplanes is the way to go. But for example i bet a lot of people would be willing to try electric cars instead of petrol if they become more practical for every day use. Same deal here, i don't think they like burning coal, they must know it's bad for you, but if they can't afford gas or electric heating, not really much choice left.
@@123dmytro123 Not sure who is banning cows and airplanes .... 🤔 ... Anyway what we need globally is a set of innovations that are designed to mitigate against the impact of climate change on human populations. I have always believed that anti pollution strategies are just common sense, and they make even more sense in the current context.
@@k.c1126 That was the latest green deal by AOC, which got denied obviously, i am still shocked it got presented as a real suggestion. But yeh i think everyone is pro enviroment, it's just common sense to not shit where you eat and sleep, problem is atm that option is usually more expensive or has other downsides. Also another issue which is thing i find very scary if you think about it, the amount of people doubled since 1970 3.8billion to 7.53billion, that's only last 50 years, in next 50 we will double again if nothing changes and our technology is not keeping up at the moment.
No, it's that people like you want to say crap to try and separate them from people who care. But you obviously don't understand how this works, when you impose laws that makes it cheaper to industrialize other nations, guess where the smog goes? (If you don't believe me look up when Apple for example moved mainly to China for making phones.) If we allow businesses to grow and develop technology then it becomes efficient technology. Efficient technology is inherently cleaner, every country has or will go through industrialization. Only by increasing our own ability to make green tech better, faster and cheaper can we supply it to other countries in any way that is helpful. By just making laws and regulations you either end up with France's yellow vest movement or the shift of American businesses to places like China who are now the places covered in pollution. But I'm sure you knew all of this because you care so much about our planet that you'd have actually looked into the history of industrialization, the regulations on it and how that ACTUALLY effected the air because I can guarantee that there's more health and human right violations now in China because of excessive green regulations than would have been present on the whole if the companies had stayed in America where we don't need suicide nets or breathing masks because of what were already accelerating technologies and appropriately regulated companies. (Look at the fallacies of these same groups who try and enforce Green laws and you'll see they cause as much pollution if not more than what we had before.) Also, before you start to say some crap about the Paris Accord which is total hypocrisy. I'd like to know why good EV's (Tesla) were made and popularized in the USA if we don't care about clean tech when compared to the EU etc. and why China didn't have to meet the standards of a "worldwide" accord? I'll give you a hint and it rhymes with Lime Light. America can't afford to hold everyone's hand through their issues, and we're getting tired of it always being our fault after we get dragged into shit. Yes we make mistakes like all other countries, now tell me what country consistently gets named as the leader of the Free world and the target of the most immigration requests? I'll gladly go and help you plant trees. I am excited for our new technology to help us bring Earth back to it's natural beauty but to think that you or I have all the answers is asinine and to believe that we will irrevocably damage the planet beyond repair is too. Yes bad things will happen, many people will die, but that's life. If we work together and try to base decisions off facts and natural truths we'll be much more likely to succeed than to bet that we can force people to change their nature. People can be good and greedy just like evil acts can come from good intentions. Sorry if this was too harsh especially in the beginning but I'm tired of hearing this narrative from people who think if you're not trying to basically pass "The Green New Deal" you don't care about the planet.
Yet, mongolian’s problem is caused largely by China. If international community do not do something to limit a country from producing waste, or its industries from producing waste, no matter what the small country decides or regulate its own industry, the problem will persist.
@@floralee1645 Please go read some international research to know much investment that China made to improve the air quality and reduce the waste. Go Google first before complaining
The first? India has at least 13 cities that have worst pollution than Mongolia, closely followed by Pakistan and China, and they all have larger and denser populations.
India accounts for 7 of the world's 10 cities with the worst air pollution, according to a new report, but previously smogbound Chinese cities have seen a marked improvement. Gurugram, a suburb of the Indian capital New Delhi, is the world's most polluted city, according to Greenpeace and AirVisual, which found it had an average air quality index of 135.8 in 2018 -- almost three times the level which the US Environmental Protection Agency regards as healthy.
Bergen in norway has more pollution than anywhere. 5 cruise ships layin down fog and smog all day. ( a cruise ship is a floating city, and uses fossile fueled generators while ankered too produce electricity) The goverment of norway refuses to provide electricity from land. They'd rather see the city of bergen in ruina before spending a dime on environmental issues.. Soo trust me. Just because a country is rich and is rated as a top country on earth, does not mean politics get any more cleaner and less corrupt. This has nothing to do whit mongolia.. It is time to realise the rich, bleed red like the rest off uss.
write your memoirs on thick acid free paper with waterfast ink and bury it in a jar. i don't think digital will last as long. shit i thought i was replying to the guy below!
And likely the parent education and equipment and supplies to keep air clear in the home will reduce the hospital visits...depending on costs may equal or be less to use the equipment.
@Divided States of America no wonder your username is "divided states of America" cause clearly your ego has taken a toll of off you. Don't tell me the US doesn't have pollution cause face it, it does. Everyone is equally at fault no matter our country
Soo Yan it will happen people are so asleep its insane i knew how messed up and loss of actual human values in this world are. Where im from USA as a kid i always wondered why we have to pay for funeral expenses and why so high. If a country charges for a loved ones passing and all this structure for death its not okay
They are the ones behind all of this geoengineered climate nonsense! And yes, they will be charging us for oxygen! They have made our tap water undrinkable and now they are doing the same to the air.
Ashley Lala plants will end up only be things in controlled environments and labs. It’s really scary where the world is leading to and yet governments focus more on bombing countries and slaughter rather than acknowledging the presence of such a world problem and doing something about it. The world is turning into something only fit for the rich and powerful, anyone who doesn’t fit into that character will eventually just die out and disappear
All those children, 300/day hospitalized with respiratory issues, saddens me to no end. And it’s very disturbing that nothing interventional is being done to improve the ‘environmental’ situation. 🥺
Matthew Dylla Of course I saw the whole video. I was referring to the environmental situation not having any intervention to correct it. The 300 affected children per day were clearly getting interventional care in the hospital, which I mentioned in my previous comment. Did you read my comment in its entirety?! To be more clear, I will edit my previous comment. Btw I am a retired RN okay. And I have cared for children. The whole situation is distressing to me okay. So go & shake ur f****ing cerebrally challenged head! 😡
@@krokodyl1927 slow clap for you then, it doesn't matter what your job was just like I can say I was a cop and had to help kids who would be abandoned by their parents who couldn't afford them and didn't want to take them to get them adopted because "that takes too much time." The start-up for the air filters is also an intervention, the video also said the knowledge of how bad this situation isn't mainstream knowledge for them there. So the fact that this was covered by BBC and already had one start-up company able to be interviewed means they're on the right road. Just food for thought, just because they're in a shitty situation doesn't mean people don't care and that nothing is going on to fix it. In most cases you'll find the best fixes are natural ones from citizens not Government imposed regulations that can lead to further suffering.
Just one word to all Mongolians/ Mongols - RESPECT It was a privilege to visit their land a couple of times. Very very cold place. Ulaanbataar is the coldest capital of the world and most of the mountains are world heritage sites,Ulaanbataar itself is dominated by the Steppe ,and the Bogd Khan mountains. You feel humbled by the fortitude and the struggle of these people. All you would like to do is to sleep on the green -green steppe and gaze at the blue sky . Love you Mongolia from India.
@@waylandwarner7727 It’s a wonderful place,have travelled to the old Chingghis Khan international airport where Gobi desert ends and the steppe begins,Ulanbatar, a very cold and windy place……it was minus seventeen degrees, due to cold wind you have a good chance of getting a frost bite. Best experience of a travelling engineer .
Stayed in the hotel blue sky in ulaanbaatar,had Korean rice ,porridge,oat porridge,yak cheese, and Mongolian sea buckthorn chocolate is the best in the world.😊
@BleeStupid black and white thinking. It's not all or nothing, but the people in these poor countries will be just as dead if their pollution kills the planet. And one of the largest 1st world nations, the US, is actively opposing environmental protection measures precisely because of the cost.
@Chen LeeAgain, childish retorts. I don't know how to build a jet that does not pollute at all (and I don't fly), but I know how to make a jet that pollutes LESS. I live in a house, and my heating is far less polluting if my energy supplier used wind, hydro, solar or thermal. No I don't drive a car, I drive a small motorcycle. If I was buying a car, I'd look for one that polluted less. At every step, we could look to pollute less and less. All you're doing is saying "Things that make life fun pollute so fuck it". Weakest argument ever. And the atmosphere won't give a shit if you make silly convenience arguments.
Honestly it's not as good as the one that Louis theroux did. For everyone who doesn't know Louis theroux on unreported world did the same documentary but much better and longer.
I can guarantee you that Fox and the rest of the anti-American treasonous right wing propagandist have a totally different take on it. Truth means nothing to right wing propagandist and the Trump administration!
Because they are manipulative and dishonest. Notice there was no mention of the geoengineering and climate manipulation that has been going on for decades. And that’s why Americans and Brits are completely oblivious and uninformed on this topic. WeatherModificationHistory dot com! The more you know!... 🧐
And people dont seem to understand that we have nowhere else to go. There is no space travel for 20, 50, or 100s of people at once and no other habitable planets. Are people really in that much denial?
@@insearchof9903 well from what ik that the spacex rockets can carry about 1k people but only for short turn travel and yes they can travel with about 20 or people long range possibly up to 100
(Mongolian here) I think you all are overreacting, the pollution comes from the Ger district trying to keep warm during the harsh winter, the summer is actually pretty nice in air quality. Air pollution in Ulaanbaatar isn't killing the planet by any means, alot of the problems come from the fact that the city is in a valley between two mountains. Trapping the polluted smoke in the city.
I’m a photographer, yesterday when I went out to take some shots I noticed a dead fish was just laying in the river it really got to me I was so upset and right next to it was plastic there was a plastic bag,plastic bottle and other plastic waste it made me so upset 😩😭
So you got upset, did you pick it up a throw it away so it didn't end up in the water? If there is something you can do, do it, every little bit helps.
Erich kempka no. You misunderstood me. You are right about most non-english speaking countries are causing pollution, but the problem is it does not yet become that bad like in Mongolia, so i hope if they can see this video and fully understand its message, they’ll reconsider what they’re doing right now.
@Erich kempka Whoa that's some blindingly ignorant generalization there. Let's see... United States: English speakers, most Energy-hogging nation in the world (China may have overtaken recently), 30,000 hospital and emergency room visits in California between 2005 to 2007 due to smog. United Kingdom: English speakers, Great smog of London in 1952, kills 6000 people... Meanwhile, Bhutan: non-English speakers, uses coal for domestic use, yet still the only carbon negative country in the world. So let's rephrase your comment, it should go something like "It seems these heavily urbanized and aggressively industrializing countries are the primarily cause of this problem. And these include both English and non-English speaking countries". However, it is fair to say that China, a non-English speaking country, is currently the biggest air polluter as of 2019.
@@SuperHunKing Air pollution effects everyone who breathes. You must not have ever been in Los Angeles. Or downwind of a oil refinery, chemical plant or pulp and paper mill.
@@Nomad-bi6su Try using your brain. Air pollution crosses international boundries, state lines, etc. All you have to do is live downwind. From any nasty pollution spewing plant to understand.
Education is not going to warm their houses or cook their food. They need modernization. Western countries looked like this earlier in their development, around the turn of the century. Then technology and infrastructure improved. Electric heaters and appliances plus a power grid allowed a consolidation of energy generation, which then enabled things like increasingly clean burning coal, natural gas, and nuclear power as opposed to each individual family needing to inefficiently burn wood or raw coal. A sufficiently large surplus was generated to allow for regulations that would reduce productivity in order to increase safety. Yeah we haven’t created an eco utopia but a little knowledge or history (or even a long memory) could tell you things have drastically improved. We need to enable other countries to do the same.
more like lazy modernation - this is a political issue and lack of education. You can also say its cultural because what people when it gets this bad can't come together to figure out how to NOT USE COAL in such fashion. Why not learn to create an economy and then import natural gas for example?
Raphael Karan true lack of a good environmental public policy. Look at China, it has quickly modernized in the last 30 years( I was in China the same year and it too use to be a clean and pollution free) but it’s cities are so polluted. I fear for the future of our planet and what our children and their children will do inherit.
@@sallyboeras7996 Yes, but 30 years ago there were way more Chinese peoples living below the poverty line than today. The pollution was the price paid for fast development, but China is also making fast progress in green solution, and it reduced it's pollution in the last years, and keeps doing it... they have the money to do so. Mongolia is suffering from things Europeans did in the 19th century. I don't know what modernization you are talking about, I saw like 3 high buildings in the smoke, but anything else seems to be mostly houses and cottages.
It's more to do with people in the city burning raw coal to keep warm. But yes, lazy modernization because burning oil and coal around the world is causing global warming, which is causing the extreme variations in temperature. We need to modernize further and solve this problem with clean, renewable, non-fossil fuel technology.
I live on India and children in my colony are illiterate even how much they go to school. They have nothing called civic sense. That's one of the reasons why India is economically behind.
I grew up in the border of india, it was a complete shit hole. I remember times where I was struggling to breathe because the air was so bad. Cow shit everywhere and garbage piles up on the streets. Im glad I dont live there anymore 🇺🇸
I agree ,i live in india and my school bus comes at 6 30 in the morning for which i have to cross busy road ..but since its 6 30 in the morning usually trucks drive by but the air is soo thick full of smog..i cant see anything in front of me ...its always foggy...But ill miss my school bus if i dont cross the road ...so i do so everyday and i feel like a blind person..I fear one day ill actually get hit by a truck because of the fog :(
Mongolia is stunningly beautiful when you get outside the city of Ulaanbaatar and out into the Steppes where the air is fresh and clean and the view is breathtaking. It was like being in a whole different world that time forgot or has been kind to. I spent two weeks there and drove from Ulaanbaatar to Choibalsan and the drive itself was an adventure. I was there in 2008 and the air pollution in the city was not bad.
It'd be great if some philanthropist (or better, international aid) contributed to putting clean energy farms in Mongolia...perhaps lifting the need for coal heating. :/
@@Dorenda Coming up with the capital for a project like that would be daunting for any small country,, let alone one with such a small GDP. Helping someone out in a crisis doesn't mean you have to do everything, and waiting until a country full of people who can't even afford to heat their homes with refined coal is ready to front every penny on their own (by which time who knows how many will have cancer) is some kind of messed up "tough love".
Literally no one: Americans: HA FAKE NEWS! CLIMATE CHANGE IS A MYTH CUS IM TOO LAZY TO CARE Edit: I'm not surprised this comment got a lot of attention. I Just wanna clarify I'm taking the piss of the climate change deniers and the American nationalists.
Trees don't seem to grow well, or fast enough to significantly change the situation now . Atmospheric processors, oxygen producing plants and aerophytes on a massive scale are needed to reverse the damages. As well as less pollution inputted into the environment, ASAP
Look at yourself first (if you are from Europe/Americas or Aus/NZ). We produce way more per person carbon than they do. Look at per person statistics not a whole country. We have to reduce ourselves first
@@TymczasemwChinach Actually China/India do more Pollution because the US/EU get them to make the stuff that makes the pollution because it's cheaper to make stuff over there due to less laws stopping them do it there. The stuff is still sent back to the US/EU so it's their pollution also Australia/New zealand have more environmental laws than US/EU and are a lot more green in the US/EU they dump their toxic waste into their own rivers/lakes.
This segment talks about the effects of problem, but does not go into detail about the source of the problem. Burning coal in Ulaanbaatar isn't the only issue and we all know it. Mongolians had been burning wood and coal for hundreds of years and never had such an air pollution issue. A similarly land-locked, Non-urbanized country like Bhutan use coal to power their domestic needs and conduct massive fire burning ceremonies every year, and yet they are a carbon negative country. It's only after the recent mass-industrialization (factories and chemical plants) and urbanization of Ulaanbaatar and Mongolia's neighboring country that these air pollution problems started arising. It's actually a bit odd how this BBC segment avoids mentioning the huge air pollution situation of its neighboring country. And most important of all, there is a GIANT rare earth mine right at the South Mongolian-China borderline. In 2018, the second largest rare earth mine was Australia with 20,000 MT. Meanwhile, China's domestic output of rare earths were 120,000 MT. That's 6 times the amount of Australia. Even if you combine all 9 of the biggest rare earth mines around the world, China is still outproducing them all. That's how big these mines are. So why is this so important you ask? Because the health symptoms shown in the people of Ulaanbatar are very similar to the health problems observed in people who were exposed to toxic and radioactive wastes created from rare earth processing. Search for 'rare earth toxic health risk' on google. It is no secret either, countries like Australia absolutely knew about the toxic risks of rare earth processing when their own Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency set guidelines to warn its dangers. So instead Australia decided to build rare earth processing factories outside of its border in developing countries like Malaysia and Vietnam where local populations conducted massive protests over it. Yet somehow this BBC report glazes over this giant, obvious health risk South of Mongolia's border. Not one mention. Even South Koreans to the East of China are suffering from China's toxic microdust tainting its air. That's how far it travels, and it's gotten so bad that they have daily weather reports about it. I am not making this up, search for 'south korea dust warning' on google.
Maybe one of the root cause is that over the past century, the Mongolian population has increased several fold (triple that of 60 years ago), nearly half of which is concentrated in Ulan Bator alone? One lone family burning wood and coal isn't scary, what's scary is everyone in a densely populated region doing the same thing. Also I posted this in several other replies: in winter (when the pollution is the worst), due to the Siberian high, wind always blows away from Mongolia in every direction, and East Asian air pollution travels due east as cold, dry air comes from Mongolia carries them, while Mongolia is west (therefore upwind) of practically every nearby industrial region. Moreover, Mongolia has worse air quality in Ulan Bator than everywhere around its immediate borders. [ aqicn.org/map/world/ ] And pollution can't concentrate by itself; pollution only spreads out as the second law of thermodynamics would show. I'd think that BBC have actually looked into the possible causes and how pollution travels in the region, and they came to the conclusion that Mongolian pollution can only be caused by their own doing in an unfortunate situation. BTW, the case is in no way as good for Bhutan as it might have seemed to you. [ www.bbc.com/news/health-43964341 ] "Pasakha in Bhutan...also had very high levels [of fine-particle air pollution]."
and btw most mongolians who lives in the polluted areas(not all of ulan bator are polluted, only in the outer sides) sometimes put anything they can find that sets on fire into the fire
Yes we are selfish and very foolish. The Earth will find it's own balance by wiping out humans that are causing the damage. If we continue on this path, it will certainly be the end for homo sapiens.
Java monsoon I’m 80 years old and remember very well. Pittsburgh did have dirty air, but in the late 50’s the air was drastically improved. Los Angeles still had smog problems but never like China. Baltimore, the city I grew up in was never smoggy. By the seventies the air was excellent automobiles had equipment to reduce pollution as well as many factories. Of course things have improved in America until recently and now America is going backwards. I left the United States for greener pastures in Germany
Well I hope Germany is going well for you! ♡ It really is sad that back here in the US we're starting to take back things like the Clean Air act and such and make it worse again. Hopefully we'll switch back again soon... I'm only just going to hit adulthood technically soon, and in my lifetime it's gotten worse in some of the areas I've been in.
There's probably a study of pollution- to - infant mortality % . What number of deaths is acceptable to you ? That's a different number than what's acceptable to a Communist government.
No not really. But a global trend is when the rich get richer the poor also get richer like if u compare the Philippines and America. The poor in America are the rich in the Philippines
Jessa Lazergirl yes I totally agree with you but I didn’t mean material wealth money, property, ect I meant as in people are losing what’s really valuable, our environment/ ecosystems / and local community’s. It’s a horrible trend that’s happening worldwide
Great report, but the editing was weird. I understand the idea of connecting it to the apocalyptic narrative, but the horror-effect sounds underlining the change between pictures was just a little weird. The video didn’t need that.
air is an open resource that knows no boundaries. Pollution in their country doesn't mean pollution ia solely released from their own land. Most of these poor people have a minimal carbon footprint compared to those people in developed countries. Air pollution released in one side of the world can travel to Mongolia and affect them. Meanwhile high polluting countries like the US and China don't sign the Paris agreement.
Shame on you for not realizing that your car, your computer, your cell phone, your clothes contributed to this :) Do you own anything that is "made in china"? If so, you actually participated in causing this polution.
Again a land where a tree is rare. One solution is planting hemp. It prospers while absorbing heavy metals out of soils. Once harvested it can become an essential export or prospect to many domestic products. One more thing you could try is ask Santa Musk of Tesla to see if he would build some panels and storage devices similar to what they did in rural Australia.
There are large forests in Mongolia, but not in the Gobi Desert (South). The forests around Ulaanbaatar were chopped down centuries ago. It has been a learning centre for 600 years.
I don’t know why everyone thinks this global issue can be solved by one man or one country or one organization it has to be a global cooperation between everyone, also there’s so much pollution solar panels wouldn’t even receive the light they need
I lived in Borneo, I can feel the same situation during haze and rainforest burned during summer. It was so thick , the haze came up on the rises during at night and in the morning, everything is smog foggy air I breathed, came to our windows and house . fortunately it only happened during summer when have no rain for 4 months. It was because the mud land will dry and set fire it self during dry hot weather in equator line but getting worse because human did some burning too, especially burning theirs trash, burning theirs farmer land. Because burn something is some kind of culture in here. And luckily plants are easy to grown in here after the plants got burned. Seems in equator line , the plants will heal it self after they got burned and the rain water intenses during thunderstorms helps to recover the plants. Yes, thunderstorms rain have a big role to heal the burned forest it self. But in this video, I saw no forest and no big tree and not so many plants. Plants do much for make the air more fresh.
I am from ulaanabaatar and when we travel to school and back we need to wear masks or we can't breath so well and the smell is just disgusting The good thing is that in the summer it's better and when you go to the country side there lots of fresh air which is the nicest feeling ever
I think your country is beautiful and fascinating. I find the Mongolian people charming - calm but energetic, independent but very caring and gentle - from what I have seen in films and documentaries. I would love to visit one day. We had many problems with pollution in the UK but it is possible to overcome with the right legislation. You must never accept that 'money' is the most important thing , the health of the nation is.
You couldn't see your hand in front of your face when the smog came down in London prior to the sixties. It cannot be just coal that is affecting these people.
As a Mongolian, I’m sad to see my home country become like this. The last time I was in Ulaanbatar was three years ago, and the air pollution seems to have gotten worse. I wish more Mongolians would get their heads out of their asses and realize what’s happening.
Wrong way round guys. This is an image of the past not the future. This was London... in the 1850s. This was all of Europe, stuck in everlasting smog. There's a reason why the Victorian aesthetic is so cloudy and smog filled and it's because of raw coal. I don't think anyone can understate the improvements we have made in the decrease in pollution in large cities, between moving to electric heating methods, moving factories out of the cities, using natural gas instead of coal to heat homes, and gas instead of petrol or wood to cook, we have decreased pollution by incredible levels to the point that modern European (Not so much American, but it's getting there) cities would look like eco paradises to the late 19th century or early 20th century eye.
@@williamfullofwood7421 yes, it is... for a while, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, it used to be like this... until they build a new power plant, allowing people to use electricity for more things and passed regulations forcing several public vehicles and taxis to use natural gas instead of petrol or diesel. I can't say the city is clear, but a lot of the pollution decreased. But as the technologies become cleaner, as electricity becomes easier to use, and more ubiquitous, as cars begin to become electric like in the West, the pollution will go down. These are growing pains of semi industrialised economies. As they go through to full industrialisation, move factories further away, turn to electric, etc... the smog will go away just as it did in Europe and the American East coast (Americans have this stupid obsession with petrol or diesel cars, that's the only issue I'll be seeing in the near future, both India and China need to stop their obsession with cars and make the cities pedestrian friendly)
@@haleffect9011 What do you mean not the US... We use the exact same types of energy that's used in Europe... Our cities aren't ultra polluted. New York City has less air pollution than Berlin. San Francisco has less air pollution than Paris. This is due to use of diesel in Europe. It gets more miles but produces more hazardous byproduct. Most European cities have more air pollution than American cities. Our numbers are thrown so out of wack because our country is huge and, thus, transportation contributes to about 25% of our greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture contributes about 10%. Maybe lab grown meat will catch on and this will go down. Instead of comparing the US to, say, Germany, it would make more sense to compare it to the entirety of Europe. Our country has less air pollution than Europe... Its Europe catching up to the US.
Here's a summary of the findings on air pollution for 2017 across the US and the EU: "PM2.5 is the primary pollutant of concern in the U.S. while PM10, NO2, O3 all are well above their acceptable limits in the EU." Crushed particulate matter, think construction, is the biggest problem in the US. The other factors not related to construction are exceeded in the EU regularly. Hope this helps!
Total misinfo. The pollution is mainly caused by open ashpits with the wind constantly blowing. And cattle dying in winter is normal, it has always been a constant risk since the very beginning. In the old days they had agreements between the tribes that granted access to foregin pastures in case of such harsh winters, but this is no longer in place. Everyone is commercially oriented and seasonal movement between pastures is also going out of fashion. It's the social disintegration that started with the Manchu takeover and then intensified during the Soviet occupation that make it such a huge problem for these isolated families. Capitalism today only delivers the coup de grace to self-sufficient nomadism. If they were really worried about the nomads, they'd talk about commercial goat breeding that really does turn the land into a desert wasteland.
Did many cities in England look much better during the industrial revolution? Many countries haven't had their industrial revolutions yet... and while they begin to have them, you can expect this type of thing. Short term losses, for long term nationwide gains; it's a process that will take time. For the west to wag fingers is very hypocritical.
Oh gosh, it's hard to imagine us (in the US too, not just England) during the industrial revolution. But I dont know how hypocritical it is in this case specifically honestly, just because people are also so harsh about it in their own country. At least here people seem to be understanding that they have more problems with finances than us in more developed areas and not just blindly blaming them for once!
Electric cars do not help as much as you think they do. Cars today contribute 5% to all the pollution around the ENTIRE world. If you want to make a difference it’s industry you need to attack not cars.
Econ 101: Negative externalities... "Let's save $x on utility costs by burning raw coal!" (Spends $100x on medical bills and suffering from lung cancer + asthma over the course of their shortened lives) Normally, I am not a fan of government intervention, but here, a government that taxes coal and subsidizes cleaner forms of energy (such as wind, or even natural gas which is still better than coal) will bring immense benefits, both from an economic and public health / quality of life prespective
Natural gas would be the best option. Getting solar or wind hooked up would be too long expencive and faulty for starting with and the gas wouldn't be hard or too expencive to get to people in the rural areas. Then you can work up from there
Globe have to decide about the purpose of manufacturing of what is need and essential for the lifestyle of people globally living if we do so we can minimise the warming,smog,pollution etc...
How do we make a change? We can’t we won’t simply because ignorant people don’t listen how sad is that. And we still have the nerve on wanting to go populate other planets... we are definitely taking the wrong steps if we want to preserve life for the future of mankind.
This is a human problem, not a climate issue. China, India, and other South East Asian emerging industrial economies are polluting like crazy and do not care about the impact on the environment or human health. Western European nations and the U.S. set up well enforced industrial/manufacturing standards for air quality a long time ago. The emerging economies of Asia need to do the same.
You are correct. Unfortunatly these Asian countries are full of idiots. They will be the death of our world because they don't care for Earth and its animals. Other races are selfish and destructive.
This is why the world needs a technocracy system, our current world leaders are incompetent, monetary gain and control over resources is all they really care about, the system is well over due a transformation, concern should be given to sustainability within the resource base not monetary profitability.
Louis Kong don't be foolish. you cry over the screen, and not the people's pain? I hope your parents have raised other children than you, that have a human heart in them, instead of what you have. how YOU MUST SHAME THEM!!
@@zu438 there's no comparison between what you can dish out with coal vs what you can dish out burning some wood. People have survived thousands of years using fire and not triggered any notable climate changes.
@@Cerbyo did I compare them? Nope, just pointed out that the statement was inaccurate and that it would be more accurate to add the word industrial. Also.....vast numbers of people cooking on campfires clearly does contribute to carbon emissions, albeit in a considerably smaller proportion to industrial levels of waste. So my point still stands.
its either this pollution or a freezing winter with no heating system does the government have enough money to switch to gas? if so they should totally buy some from russia.
It's easy for you to say "the people in charge dont care as long as their pockets are lined" cuz people tend to (or at least want to) believe what makes sense in a most direct logic, like in a hollywood movie, every villain is pure evil and every hero represents the ultimate justice. In realworld however, the truth is always way more complicated than what it might seem to be. In the case of Mongolia's pollution, the one and only problem lies in the country's economy. The people in charge definitely dont want to see this pollution situation getting worse and worse, its just that they r unable to put most of their focus on the environmental issues while most people r still struggling in poverty. There is first priority, then important issues.
I think it's been proven most governments are corrupt, they don't care any more about the poverty and struggles of their citizens than they do about climate change. FACT. All evidence points to them only wanting to line their pockets..
Only slightly more complicated; they care more about themselves and their own families than they do about the planet or the human race as a whole. They're literally so selfish and short-sighted that they would rather be the death of the world as we know it than change careers or invest in other industries.
@@Vix2066 Ur statement has just proven my point, that most people r viewing politics in an extremely simplified and reckless way. If it's really like what u said "its been proven" that "all evidence points to" most governments "only wanting to line their pockets", then it seems like the governments r there for no reason but to steal people's money. And if that's the case, how come we haven't seen most of them getting overthrown by their citizens? And I can give u the answer. That's because the citizens do see efforts coming from the gov on different aspects for improvements of the society. It's a universal fact that every government functions in multiple ways aiming at improving people's lives (under their own nation's situation). More importantly, that's why even though there are still lots of social problems, their people still put hope on the gov. Yes of course there is corruption inside every government. But in most cases, its definitely not the one-in-charge's intention, rather due to the lack of administration or regulation. When we r talking about mongolia's situation, it's better if we first learn about their history and political/economic situation instead of commenting in a rhetoric which favors the majority's ideology. There is enough fake news on our media that have poisoned millions of people's mind, why can't we start to be more responsible for ourselves?
@@cornuschristi1814 You need to know no matter what country ur in, the government will have to worry about so much more than just "change careers" or "invest in other industries" or other subjects that may concern urself. They take care of every single issue within the nation, economy, infrastructure, education, employment rate, social welfare, racial/religion issues, law enforcement, defense of state, international relation, resources, enviroment etc etc. Every policy they make will have impact on certain people's lives, and every policy takes a lot of money and a wide range of time. The ones who benefit from the policy will like it, others won't. But the point is there r too much for them to worry about. They r not only serving for one person.
BBC, i know this is serious so stop using the dramatic glitching effect please.
Too much...too annoying
HAHA yes I thought i was watching a high schoolers project lmao
It's like they got Robocop to record it but the air messed up his circuits.
seriously. It keeps distracting me from the content, which I actually am interested in.
It’s so goddamn obnoxious.
Earth will survive. Mankind won't.
I really hope we are extinct before we destroy the world entirely.
gallya or we will make a new planet our home. The US already has a one way mission to mars underway. It’s expected to start sometime in the next 10 years.
What if Earth doesn't? What if a meteor, planet, etc crashes and destroys it? What if nuclear weapons destroy everything
@gallya If we keep living like this we will all die. Just look at how many trees are cut down every minute, less trees more CO2 and less breathable oxygen, we are destroying the ozone layer sooner or later almost everything will eventually perish
@gallya And if we don't? We *Still* do not have a cure for cancer, the Black death, or Zika what if they wipe us out. The Black death basically killed 50% of the population with less social interaction than we have now. You never know anything can wipe us out
I have been in conditions like this whilst in India. The atmosphere so thick with pollution you can see the particles in the air, and difficult to breathe without coughing. Luckily for me, I was able to move from those areas quite quickly as I was travelling... but for many people, this is their home.
This can never be right.
India looks so dirty 😣
Michael Summerell people are to blame. I grew up in Delhi and what a gorgeous city it was as late as mid 90s alas !
India is disgusting
@@concha1011 it is, it's very dirty.
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As I'm from Ulan-Bator city, Mongolia, I approve of this video. We have terrible air pollution in winter especially in the morning and evening. There's no way to go out without protective mask. I hope we could solve the problem effectively soon.
no you can't
High pressure from cold weather prevents air from rising, meaning no wind and no circulation. Pollution sits around when pressure is high.
Enkhnamar Enkhbold Nobody is blaming you for keeping your homes warm in the winter. That's the price of communism. No electricity in your homes and electricity is crucial if you want cleaner heat. Perhaps your government should look towards clean coal instead.
With no wind, no rain or snow air pollution can easily grow and reach high levels
If there is no wind rain or snow for a long period, air pollution can easily grow fast, especially with coal emissions
A lot of Americans who oppose 'green' initiatives don't realize that this is what many industrialized cities in the US were like prior to the EPA and the clean air act. The underlying point of this video is also pertinent: it's not just the change itself, but also the unpredictability that is wreaking havoc ....
The problem is not that many people don't care about enviroment, just that no actually well thought proposals are put forward, i am all for saving the planet, but i don't think banning cows and airplanes is the way to go. But for example i bet a lot of people would be willing to try electric cars instead of petrol if they become more practical for every day use.
Same deal here, i don't think they like burning coal, they must know it's bad for you, but if they can't afford gas or electric heating, not really much choice left.
@@123dmytro123 Not sure who is banning cows and airplanes .... 🤔 ... Anyway what we need globally is a set of innovations that are designed to mitigate against the impact of climate change on human populations. I have always believed that anti pollution strategies are just common sense, and they make even more sense in the current context.
@@k.c1126 That was the latest green deal by AOC, which got denied obviously, i am still shocked it got presented as a real suggestion. But yeh i think everyone is pro enviroment, it's just common sense to not shit where you eat and sleep, problem is atm that option is usually more expensive or has other downsides. Also another issue which is thing i find very scary if you think about it, the amount of people doubled since 1970 3.8billion to 7.53billion, that's only last 50 years, in next 50 we will double again if nothing changes and our technology is not keeping up at the moment.
Dym idk about banning cows or airplanes. But their legislation doesn’t mention anything of that.
No, it's that people like you want to say crap to try and separate them from people who care. But you obviously don't understand how this works, when you impose laws that makes it cheaper to industrialize other nations, guess where the smog goes? (If you don't believe me look up when Apple for example moved mainly to China for making phones.)
If we allow businesses to grow and develop technology then it becomes efficient technology. Efficient technology is inherently cleaner, every country has or will go through industrialization. Only by increasing our own ability to make green tech better, faster and cheaper can we supply it to other countries in any way that is helpful.
By just making laws and regulations you either end up with France's yellow vest movement or the shift of American businesses to places like China who are now the places covered in pollution. But I'm sure you knew all of this because you care so much about our planet that you'd have actually looked into the history of industrialization, the regulations on it and how that ACTUALLY effected the air because I can guarantee that there's more health and human right violations now in China because of excessive green regulations than would have been present on the whole if the companies had stayed in America where we don't need suicide nets or breathing masks because of what were already accelerating technologies and appropriately regulated companies. (Look at the fallacies of these same groups who try and enforce Green laws and you'll see they cause as much pollution if not more than what we had before.)
Also, before you start to say some crap about the Paris Accord which is total hypocrisy. I'd like to know why good EV's (Tesla) were made and popularized in the USA if we don't care about clean tech when compared to the EU etc. and why China didn't have to meet the standards of a "worldwide" accord? I'll give you a hint and it rhymes with Lime Light.
America can't afford to hold everyone's hand through their issues, and we're getting tired of it always being our fault after we get dragged into shit. Yes we make mistakes like all other countries, now tell me what country consistently gets named as the leader of the Free world and the target of the most immigration requests?
I'll gladly go and help you plant trees. I am excited for our new technology to help us bring Earth back to it's natural beauty but to think that you or I have all the answers is asinine and to believe that we will irrevocably damage the planet beyond repair is too. Yes bad things will happen, many people will die, but that's life. If we work together and try to base decisions off facts and natural truths we'll be much more likely to succeed than to bet that we can force people to change their nature. People can be good and greedy just like evil acts can come from good intentions. Sorry if this was too harsh especially in the beginning but I'm tired of hearing this narrative from people who think if you're not trying to basically pass "The Green New Deal" you don't care about the planet.
London had this problem in the sixties so they came up with the Clean Air Act
Yet, mongolian’s problem is caused largely by China. If international community do not do something to limit a country from producing waste, or its industries from producing waste, no matter what the small country decides or regulate its own industry, the problem will persist.
living in central london today is equivalent to smoking 10 cigarettes a day
Facts Elliott!!!!
Elliott Day wait is that an actual fact!? that’s crazyyyy
@@floralee1645 Please go read some international research to know much investment that China made to improve the air quality and reduce the waste. Go Google first before complaining
Mongolia is the first to experience this but India will be the second to witness this on a gigantic scale....
Of course u r right. Soon India will be like this. Delhi is now already like this.
bbc is very Pro India, they ca do nothing wrong
The first? India has at least 13 cities that have worst pollution than Mongolia, closely followed by Pakistan and China, and they all have larger and denser populations.
22 of the top 30 most polluted cities in the world are in India according to CNN.
India accounts for 7 of the world's 10 cities with the worst air pollution, according to a new report, but previously smogbound Chinese cities have seen a marked improvement. Gurugram, a suburb of the Indian capital New Delhi, is the world's most polluted city, according to Greenpeace and AirVisual, which found it had an average air quality index of 135.8 in 2018 -- almost three times the level which the US Environmental Protection Agency regards as healthy.
I lived in mongolia for 3 years and it was so polluted sometimes we couldn't see car in front of us.
Scary and sad at da same time
Steven4School same in Tianjin China
Lots of pollution is done in Mongolia by Canadian gold mines who then virtue signal all over the world about catastrophic climate change awareness.
Bergen in norway has more pollution than anywhere. 5 cruise ships layin down fog and smog all day.
( a cruise ship is a floating city, and uses fossile fueled generators while ankered too produce electricity)
The goverment of norway refuses to provide electricity from land.
They'd rather see the city of bergen in ruina before spending a dime on environmental issues..
Soo trust me. Just because a country is rich and is rated as a top country on earth, does not mean politics get any more cleaner and less corrupt.
This has nothing to do whit mongolia..
It is time to realise the rich, bleed red like the rest off uss.
@@megsinzoa7424 bergen is nowhere near polluted compared to these places wtf are you on about?
Editor: What visual effects do you want?
Director: *Yes*
write your memoirs on thick acid free paper with waterfast ink and bury it in a jar. i don't think digital will last as long. shit i thought i was replying to the guy below!
7:29 "He's stopped coughing since we turned it on."
Okay, you got me, that was upsetting.
And likely the parent education and equipment and supplies to keep air clear in the home will reduce the hospital visits...depending on costs may equal or be less to use the equipment.
Translation is bit wrong. It is saying he is coughing less when we turned it on. (I'm mongolian)
We are creating problems by our hand.
@Divided States of America Tell em buddy..
@Divided States of America no wonder your username is "divided states of America" cause clearly your ego has taken a toll of off you. Don't tell me the US doesn't have pollution cause face it, it does. Everyone is equally at fault no matter our country
Divided States of America “OUR” plastics and metals end up in Africa and India. You clearly don’t know much.
@Divided States of America you do realize you're on the same planet right? So yeah. WE caused it.
@Divided States of America Idiot. People like you voted for Trump. Thanks for ruining our home idiot. I'm off to Mars when it gets like this
Legend has it wall-e will soon be real
Wall-e is currently in mars
Jimmy Minor that’s his father he done his job eventually Elon musk will die and his body will be on mars so he can fix opportunity
It will by the end of this century
Go watch film theory abot wall e
I feel like its going to get worse in the future and our lovely government will charge us for the equipment to survive
Everyone will probably have to buy oxygen and breathable air someday the way we buy groceries now
Soo Yan it will happen people are so asleep its insane i knew how messed up and loss of actual human values in this world are. Where im from USA as a kid i always wondered why we have to pay for funeral expenses and why so high. If a country charges for a loved ones passing and all this structure for death its not okay
They are the ones behind all of this geoengineered climate nonsense! And yes, they will be charging us for oxygen! They have made our tap water undrinkable and now they are doing the same to the air.
Ashley Lala plants will end up only be things in controlled environments and labs. It’s really scary where the world is leading to and yet governments focus more on bombing countries and slaughter rather than acknowledging the presence of such a world problem and doing something about it. The world is turning into something only fit for the rich and powerful, anyone who doesn’t fit into that character will eventually just die out and disappear
All those children, 300/day hospitalized with respiratory issues, saddens me to no end. And it’s very disturbing that nothing interventional is being done to improve the ‘environmental’ situation. 🥺
Lester Luczak just get the ghoulish perk duh
This whole video is interventional?! Did you not finish it? Or are you just trying to show your "I care" card. SMH.
Matthew Dylla Of course I saw the whole video. I was referring to the environmental situation not having any intervention to correct it. The 300 affected children per day were clearly getting interventional care in the hospital, which I mentioned in my previous comment. Did you read my comment in its entirety?! To be more clear, I will edit my previous comment. Btw I am a retired RN okay. And I have cared for children. The whole situation is distressing to me okay. So go & shake ur f****ing cerebrally challenged head! 😡
@@krokodyl1927 slow clap for you then, it doesn't matter what your job was just like I can say I was a cop and had to help kids who would be abandoned by their parents who couldn't afford them and didn't want to take them to get them adopted because "that takes too much time." The start-up for the air filters is also an intervention, the video also said the knowledge of how bad this situation isn't mainstream knowledge for them there. So the fact that this was covered by BBC and already had one start-up company able to be interviewed means they're on the right road. Just food for thought, just because they're in a shitty situation doesn't mean people don't care and that nothing is going on to fix it. In most cases you'll find the best fixes are natural ones from citizens not Government imposed regulations that can lead to further suffering.
Just one word to all Mongolians/ Mongols - RESPECT
It was a privilege to visit their land a couple of times.
Very very cold place.
Ulaanbataar is the coldest capital of the world and most of the mountains are world heritage sites,Ulaanbataar itself is dominated by the Steppe ,and the Bogd Khan mountains.
You feel humbled by the fortitude and the struggle of these people.
All you would like to do is to sleep on the green -green steppe and gaze at the blue sky .
Love you Mongolia from India.
I've lived in Mongolia in 2020, it is nothing like this now, they are really pushing for cleaner air.
@@mangonel Yeah, but now they are doing so well, and Ulaanbaatar is now looking beautiful, especially in Zaisan hill near the Tuul.
@@waylandwarner7727
It’s a wonderful place,have travelled to the old Chingghis Khan international airport where Gobi desert ends and the steppe begins,Ulanbatar, a very cold and windy place……it was minus seventeen degrees, due to cold wind you have a good chance of getting a frost bite. Best experience of a travelling engineer .
Stayed in the hotel blue sky in ulaanbaatar,had Korean rice ,porridge,oat porridge,yak cheese, and Mongolian sea buckthorn chocolate is the best in the world.😊
Stop flickering the video. Otherwise it's a nice clip
It was made to make you have seizures
Those flickerings are very annoying.
At what point editing the segment they thought it was a good idea and got it approved? Who are these people?
If this is such a problem to watch then listen our survival counts on it.
Exactly, it’s so annoying and disturbing.
As long as money is put ahead of health and the future of the planet this will continue.
Mat Broomfield This comment deserves many more likes than it currently has because that is indeed the *truth of the matter*
If we follow AOCs GND we'd all be starving to death in a few years. There is no free lunch kid
Adam Smith what’s the alternative?
@BleeStupid black and white thinking. It's not all or nothing, but the people in these poor countries will be just as dead if their pollution kills the planet. And one of the largest 1st world nations, the US, is actively opposing environmental protection measures precisely because of the cost.
@Chen LeeAgain, childish retorts. I don't know how to build a jet that does not pollute at all (and I don't fly), but I know how to make a jet that pollutes LESS. I live in a house, and my heating is far less polluting if my energy supplier used wind, hydro, solar or thermal. No I don't drive a car, I drive a small motorcycle. If I was buying a car, I'd look for one that polluted less. At every step, we could look to pollute less and less. All you're doing is saying "Things that make life fun pollute so fuck it". Weakest argument ever. And the atmosphere won't give a shit if you make silly convenience arguments.
I love how Mongolian language sounds
Really?
@@cuppatae834 lol
@@cuppatae834 hahahahahaha
It has a great many very subtle sounds, and is similar to the Inuit languages in NE Canada.
@@cuppatae834 arabic seems so hard to learn.
Why TH-cam doesn’t pin this video for every one to watch
EivenKim ちわ:D yeah
EivenKim ちわ:D TH-cam is anti-global warming.
(Just kidding. I don't know.
Even if they did, I doubt most people would listen.)
Honestly it's not as good as the one that Louis theroux did. For everyone who doesn't know Louis theroux on unreported world did the same documentary but much better and longer.
China will get angry.
I can guarantee you that Fox and the rest of the anti-American treasonous right wing propagandist have a totally different take on it. Truth means nothing to right wing propagandist and the Trump administration!
I am Chinese,I know how it feel, China is also struggling with the same problem
It will get better with time
EVOLUTION I hope so!i live in the seriously polluted city in china ! I haven’t seen the blue sky for many many years !
george lee I wonder which city you live in?
EVOLUTION are you daft
EVOLUTION its called gujiao which is near the capital of shanxi province
whats with the gimmicky editing why do these kind of shows always do this godawful editing.
Ageed - it was a good report but the glitches were obnoxious. The message was already powerful enough without using this gimmick.
@Tyler Durden I do also not agree with BBC's political agenda, however climate change is real and it needs to be tackled ASAP.
Because they are manipulative and dishonest. Notice there was no mention of the geoengineering and climate manipulation that has been going on for decades. And that’s why Americans and Brits are completely oblivious and uninformed on this topic. WeatherModificationHistory dot com! The more you know!... 🧐
O dear God. We are watching our planet die. This is heartbreaking
And people dont seem to understand that we have nowhere else to go. There is no space travel for 20, 50, or 100s of people at once and no other habitable planets. Are people really in that much denial?
@@insearchof9903 well from what ik that the spacex rockets can carry about 1k people but only for short turn travel and yes they can travel with about 20 or people long range possibly up to 100
Baruzuland oh well mass extinction will happen and there will be a new apex species in a few hundred thousand/million years
(Mongolian here) I think you all are overreacting, the pollution comes from the Ger district trying to keep warm during the harsh winter, the summer is actually pretty nice in air quality.
Air pollution in Ulaanbaatar isn't killing the planet by any means, alot of the problems come from the fact that the city is in a valley between two mountains. Trapping the polluted smoke in the city.
Hahahaha, Planet will die? I think you want to say humans.
I’m a photographer, yesterday when I went out to take some shots I noticed a dead fish was just laying in the river it really got to me I was so upset and right next to it was plastic there was a plastic bag,plastic bottle and other plastic waste it made me so upset 😩😭
And how is that relevant to air pollution in Mongolia?
Terangeree I’m talking about pollution in general jheez😑
So you got upset, did you pick it up a throw it away so it didn't end up in the water?
If there is something you can do, do it, every little bit helps.
thank you for your thoughtful comment
@@ThePsychodad69 he's not gonna be able to clean an entire river
Somebody adds subtitle please. Non-English speaking part of the world should understand this problem completely as well
Hearing impaired people want to know what's going on, too.
Erich kempka no. You misunderstood me. You are right about most non-english speaking countries are causing pollution, but the problem is it does not yet become that bad like in Mongolia, so i hope if they can see this video and fully understand its message, they’ll reconsider what they’re doing right now.
@Erich kempka Whoa that's some blindingly ignorant generalization there. Let's see... United States: English speakers, most Energy-hogging nation in the world (China may have overtaken recently), 30,000 hospital and emergency room visits in California between 2005 to 2007 due to smog. United Kingdom: English speakers, Great smog of London in 1952, kills 6000 people... Meanwhile, Bhutan: non-English speakers, uses coal for domestic use, yet still the only carbon negative country in the world.
So let's rephrase your comment, it should go something like "It seems these heavily urbanized and aggressively industrializing countries are the primarily cause of this problem. And these include both English and non-English speaking countries". However, it is fair to say that China, a non-English speaking country, is currently the biggest air polluter as of 2019.
@therisj that costs a lot of money.
why? even English speaking countries who know about it, still don't care
*Comments:*
60% - Blaming others
30% - Denial
10% - Politics
0% solving the problem
Or 70% politics
20% Denial
10% Blaming others
100% over exaggeration. MASHIN HARAGDDIN
This isn't a surprise. And air pollution knows no boundries. You breathe what your neighbor pollutes.
Brian Garrow but there bbq smells good
It's not affecting the US, the air is clean in that country.
Really? You just had to make it about Murica didn't you. Jeez
@@SuperHunKing Air pollution effects everyone who breathes. You must not have ever been in Los Angeles. Or downwind of a oil refinery, chemical plant or pulp and paper mill.
@@Nomad-bi6su Try using your brain. Air pollution crosses international boundries, state lines, etc. All you have to do is live downwind. From any nasty pollution spewing plant to understand.
So sad
We need to do something about our planet
And educate people
We're trying our hardest!!!
Geoengineeringwatch.org
@@pamelaia were not trying hard enough.
Education is not going to warm their houses or cook their food. They need modernization. Western countries looked like this earlier in their development, around the turn of the century. Then technology and infrastructure improved. Electric heaters and appliances plus a power grid allowed a consolidation of energy generation, which then enabled things like increasingly clean burning coal, natural gas, and nuclear power as opposed to each individual family needing to inefficiently burn wood or raw coal. A sufficiently large surplus was generated to allow for regulations that would reduce productivity in order to increase safety. Yeah we haven’t created an eco utopia but a little knowledge or history (or even a long memory) could tell you things have drastically improved. We need to enable other countries to do the same.
We're trying, but first we have to convince them that the damn earth isn't flat, and that vaccines aren't a damn conspiracy!
This is so sad. I was in Ulan Batar in 1987 and it was a beautiful, clean place. Sad that modernization has ruined the country.
more like lazy modernation - this is a political issue and lack of education. You can also say its cultural because what people when it gets this bad can't come together to figure out how to NOT USE COAL in such fashion. Why not learn to create an economy and then import natural gas for example?
Raphael Karan true lack of a good environmental public policy. Look at China, it has quickly modernized in the last 30 years( I was in China the same year and it too use to be a clean and pollution free) but it’s cities are so polluted. I fear for the future of our planet and what our children and their children will do inherit.
@@sallyboeras7996 Yes, but 30 years ago there were way more Chinese peoples living below the poverty line than today. The pollution was the price paid for fast development, but China is also making fast progress in green solution, and it reduced it's pollution in the last years, and keeps doing it... they have the money to do so. Mongolia is suffering from things Europeans did in the 19th century. I don't know what modernization you are talking about, I saw like 3 high buildings in the smoke, but anything else seems to be mostly houses and cottages.
Sally Boeras if you could spell it right
It's more to do with people in the city burning raw coal to keep warm. But yes, lazy modernization because burning oil and coal around the world is causing global warming, which is causing the extreme variations in temperature. We need to modernize further and solve this problem with clean, renewable, non-fossil fuel technology.
Hope India learns something.
I live on India and children in my colony are illiterate even how much they go to school. They have nothing called civic sense. That's one of the reasons why India is economically behind.
I grew up in the border of india, it was a complete shit hole. I remember times where I was struggling to breathe because the air was so bad. Cow shit everywhere and garbage piles up on the streets. Im glad I dont live there anymore 🇺🇸
I agree ,i live in india and my school bus comes at 6 30 in the morning for which i have to cross busy road ..but since its 6 30 in the morning usually trucks drive by but the air is soo thick full of smog..i cant see anything in front of me ...its always foggy...But ill miss my school bus if i dont cross the road ...so i do so everyday and i feel like a blind person..I fear one day ill actually get hit by a truck because of the fog :(
N T Yeah, I was born in America but parents are from India. They lived in a good place. However, the pollution from autos is insane.
The question is: Is India willing to sacrifice development, getting wealthier and self sufficient in order to reduce pollution?
I predate the English Clean Air act. I remember scenes like this in the UK. Not nice, not nice at all.
It shocked me when I learnt that the term Black Country referred to how black the land and air was from coal burning.
Mongolia is stunningly beautiful when you get outside the city of Ulaanbaatar and out into the Steppes where the air is fresh and clean and the view is breathtaking. It was like being in a whole different world that time forgot or has been kind to. I spent two weeks there and drove from Ulaanbaatar to Choibalsan and the drive itself was an adventure. I was there in 2008 and the air pollution in the city was not bad.
Maybe it worsened every year since then?
Plus different time of year!
This level of air pollution only really occurs in the winter season. During summer it settles down a bit
The pollution comes from their southern border where China is because pollution comes from China.
@@basillah7650 you think that? I don't
It'd be great if some philanthropist (or better, international aid) contributed to putting clean energy farms in Mongolia...perhaps lifting the need for coal heating. :/
Permaculture...
@@Dorenda Coming up with the capital for a project like that would be daunting for any small country,, let alone one with such a small GDP. Helping someone out in a crisis doesn't mean you have to do everything, and waiting until a country full of people who can't even afford to heat their homes with refined coal is ready to front every penny on their own (by which time who knows how many will have cancer) is some kind of messed up "tough love".
The dystopian glitch effect is beyond obnoxious and does a disservice to the quality content.
Literally no one:
Americans: HA FAKE NEWS! CLIMATE CHANGE IS A MYTH CUS IM TOO LAZY TO CARE
Edit: I'm not surprised this comment got a lot of attention. I Just wanna clarify I'm taking the piss of the climate change deniers and the American nationalists.
we get your point
We don't do anything wrong about it.
Fix your own problems!
Don't cry like a baby!
@Divided States of America "their" environment? If you have that attitude against all countries it won't matter how clean you are
Can you prove climate change is mad made?
@Divided States of America Tell em 😂
Mongolia should really start planting more trees and take steps to reduce their pollution.
Trees don’t grow very well in Mongolia.
The pollution comes from their southern border where China is because pollution comes from China.
Trees don't seem to grow well, or fast enough to significantly change the situation now . Atmospheric processors, oxygen producing plants and aerophytes on a massive scale are needed to reverse the damages. As well as less pollution inputted into the environment, ASAP
good solution, just that it will take more than 2 decades
@@basillah7650 Um How is this supposed to help?
This is a big reminder of how life used to be in London. Good to see other people learning from history ... NOT.
Bruh these people are burning coal to survive. How else could they be warm during the winter? Money is out of the question
Yep. London learnt well how to rule. Good to see the BRITISH BC there in Mongolia now.
“Why are we trying to change our fossil fuels to green energy if in China & India they make way more pollution?”
So we prevent this.
China is the biggest producer of green energy in the entire world.
Look at yourself first (if you are from Europe/Americas or Aus/NZ). We produce way more per person carbon than they do. Look at per person statistics not a whole country. We have to reduce ourselves first
@@TymczasemwChinach Actually China/India do more Pollution because the US/EU get them to make the stuff that makes the pollution because it's cheaper to make stuff over there due to less laws stopping them do it there.
The stuff is still sent back to the US/EU so it's their pollution also Australia/New zealand have more environmental laws than US/EU and are a lot more green in the US/EU they dump their toxic waste into their own rivers/lakes.
0:53 The irony of owning Prius in toxic environment.
Bull Dozzah I don’t think it’s ironic it makes even more since to own one in a place like that.
I mean its a hybrid so it does cause less pollution. But it does cost pollution to make. So idk is it more helpful or just a placebo.
what matters most is how spiritual that Prius is and how Vegan is that fat child
This segment talks about the effects of problem, but does not go into detail about the source of the problem. Burning coal in Ulaanbaatar isn't the only issue and we all know it.
Mongolians had been burning wood and coal for hundreds of years and never had such an air pollution issue. A similarly land-locked, Non-urbanized country like Bhutan use coal to power their domestic needs and conduct massive fire burning ceremonies every year, and yet they are a carbon negative country. It's only after the recent mass-industrialization (factories and chemical plants) and urbanization of Ulaanbaatar and Mongolia's neighboring country that these air pollution problems started arising. It's actually a bit odd how this BBC segment avoids mentioning the huge air pollution situation of its neighboring country.
And most important of all, there is a GIANT rare earth mine right at the South Mongolian-China borderline. In 2018, the second largest rare earth mine was Australia with 20,000 MT. Meanwhile, China's domestic output of rare earths were 120,000 MT. That's 6 times the amount of Australia. Even if you combine all 9 of the biggest rare earth mines around the world, China is still outproducing them all. That's how big these mines are. So why is this so important you ask? Because the health symptoms shown in the people of Ulaanbatar are very similar to the health problems observed in people who were exposed to toxic and radioactive wastes created from rare earth processing.
Search for 'rare earth toxic health risk' on google. It is no secret either, countries like Australia absolutely knew about the toxic risks of rare earth processing when their own Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency set guidelines to warn its dangers. So instead Australia decided to build rare earth processing factories outside of its border in developing countries like Malaysia and Vietnam where local populations conducted massive protests over it. Yet somehow this BBC report glazes over this giant, obvious health risk South of Mongolia's border. Not one mention. Even South Koreans to the East of China are suffering from China's toxic microdust tainting its air. That's how far it travels, and it's gotten so bad that they have daily weather reports about it. I am not making this up, search for 'south korea dust warning' on google.
Thanks for this comment mate.
News aren't really trustable these days.
Just looked like another propagander piece for the Climate Change farce to me.
Maybe one of the root cause is that over the past century, the Mongolian population has increased several fold (triple that of 60 years ago), nearly half of which is concentrated in Ulan Bator alone? One lone family burning wood and coal isn't scary, what's scary is everyone in a densely populated region doing the same thing.
Also I posted this in several other replies: in winter (when the pollution is the worst), due to the Siberian high, wind always blows away from Mongolia in every direction, and East Asian air pollution travels due east as cold, dry air comes from Mongolia carries them, while Mongolia is west (therefore upwind) of practically every nearby industrial region.
Moreover, Mongolia has worse air quality in Ulan Bator than everywhere around its immediate borders. [ aqicn.org/map/world/ ] And pollution can't concentrate by itself; pollution only spreads out as the second law of thermodynamics would show.
I'd think that BBC have actually looked into the possible causes and how pollution travels in the region, and they came to the conclusion that Mongolian pollution can only be caused by their own doing in an unfortunate situation.
BTW, the case is in no way as good for Bhutan as it might have seemed to you. [ www.bbc.com/news/health-43964341 ] "Pasakha in Bhutan...also had very high levels [of fine-particle air pollution]."
and btw most mongolians who lives in the polluted areas(not all of ulan bator are polluted, only in the outer sides) sometimes put anything they can find that sets on fire into the fire
The bbc just wanted an exuse to seem "climate" holy.
George Carlin explained all this stuff perfectly.
Very sad.
Bad pollution?? Really??? I never wouldve guessed from burning coal and living In the 1970s.
You know what the main problem is? McDonald's
+Matt J 1970s? I think you mean 1870's.
@@davidgreen5994 www.momscleanairforce.org/13-reasons-70s-werent-that-great/
No? Pollution was TERRIBLE in the 1970s.
We're damaged this Earth.
How's selfish we are !
speak for yourself
The Earth is fine, but we will die
Yes we are selfish and very foolish. The Earth will find it's own balance by wiping out humans that are causing the damage. If we continue on this path, it will certainly be the end for homo sapiens.
"we"...?
We? You mean those that produce 90% of pollution(Africa,Asia and USA)?
I just moved my family out of Arizona becuase the whole state is headed this direction air quality wise.
You're paranoid as hell.
www.usa.com/rank/us--air-quality-index--state-rank.htm
Java monsoon I’m 80 years old and remember very well. Pittsburgh did have dirty air, but in the late 50’s the air was drastically improved. Los Angeles still had smog problems but never like China. Baltimore, the city I grew up in was never smoggy. By the seventies the air was excellent automobiles had equipment to reduce pollution as well as many factories. Of course things have improved in America until recently and now America is going backwards. I left the United States for greener pastures in Germany
Well I hope Germany is going well for you! ♡ It really is sad that back here in the US we're starting to take back things like the Clean Air act and such and make it worse again. Hopefully we'll switch back again soon... I'm only just going to hit adulthood technically soon, and in my lifetime it's gotten worse in some of the areas I've been in.
....germany suffered highly from green energy...
Yet Americans will openly deny.
what...
Correction: Republicans are the ones in denial. Democrats know climate change is real.
Not all.
I'm an American and I don't? Fuck off.
jacob
We aren’t a polluting country? What?
Every American produces 4 POUNDS OF TRASH EVERY SINGLE DAY on average.
Forget the pollution. Children are so cute over there.
This makes me worry about the children more.
Shivam Tyagi If they weren’t cute, you wouldn’t care at all?
you sound ignorant
There's probably a study of pollution- to - infant mortality % . What number of deaths is acceptable to you ? That's a different number than what's acceptable to a Communist government.
I feel bad for them..especially for the little ones,
Look at china someone made a brick out of the pollution
Air is a resource that has no physically defined boundaries.
Mongolian are beautiful people, I hope they can solve this problem.
Did you watch the video? They live on a giant valley. So yes there is indeed a physical boundary.
They need Giant air purifiers 😶
"If it doesn't effect me it doesn't exist"
Sad how many people deny it
idonotmakevidsyet Did you know about this exact case before you watched this video?
Yes I live in Mongolia it is the biggest problem We still couldn't find the way to breath clear air in capital city
Afghanistan: we have one of worst pollution in my country.
Mongolia: Hold my vodka
I hope u get herpes
@@robertoramos4558 STFU
Vodka?!
There is not much of an pollution here in Mongolia as of 2020 November.
@@gantugsgantulga4378 after covid then its back to being thw worst country with pollution enjoy your air
This is why i lived as a nomad before moving to the uk 💀
Lol
The rich seem to be getting richer and the poor become even more poorer, in every sense of the word 👎🏻
No not really. But a global trend is when the rich get richer the poor also get richer like if u compare the Philippines and America. The poor in America are the rich in the Philippines
Jessa Lazergirl yes I totally agree with you but I didn’t mean material wealth money, property, ect I meant as in people are losing what’s really valuable, our environment/ ecosystems / and local community’s. It’s a horrible trend that’s happening worldwide
therisj seek help mate..you need it blessyou😂👍🏻
That sweet baby 😭 Having bronchitis is horrible even when you’re older, but to see the little one having trouble breathing is heartbreaking. 😭
This country s sadness :
Pollution
Corruption
Bad government
Negative people
Low healthcare
And low gdp
I.. I don't think you comprehend that this is literally becoming our future before our eyes
I don't think you comprehend that this is literally becoming our future before our eyes
Whoa burning coal creates polluted cities? Who wouldve thought!!
Modern man is preoccupied with other things. Sorry earth. Sorry us.
How sad, not only the skills of generations of herders vanishing, but the alternative is to live in a poisoned city.....
The global power elite want this everywhere!
Advanced countries polluted the world most. And when they get a comfortable stage, they are talking about other poor countries pollution levels.
Your attitude will get all of us killed.
Damn..20 horses..approx 50 grand,30 sheep approx 6 to 7 grand?,,, Praying for u guys..
Don't pray, force your politicians to listen to the desperate need to address these issues before they are the norm around the world
Mongolia is getting better alright.
And these glitching effects are actually soo annoying
Great report, but the editing was weird. I understand the idea of connecting it to the apocalyptic narrative, but the horror-effect sounds underlining the change between pictures was just a little weird. The video didn’t need that.
You are intelligent go to school
Correct... Constant flickering is annoying. They must re upload a more polish version if this video
Its because its scarier than you think... peoplr need a dsrker tone to make this a priority
The poor babies...shame on the government shame on their leader!
air is an open resource that knows no boundaries. Pollution in their country doesn't mean pollution ia solely released from their own land. Most of these poor people have a minimal carbon footprint compared to those people in developed countries. Air pollution released in one side of the world can travel to Mongolia and affect them. Meanwhile high polluting countries like the US and China don't sign the Paris agreement.
Shame on you for not realizing that your car, your computer, your cell phone, your clothes contributed to this :) Do you own anything that is "made in china"? If so, you actually participated in causing this polution.
@@7saany Fun fact: The US has LOWERED its emissions for a long while even without signing the agreement. China now beats it by far in emissions.
@@arnowisp6244 so u like China?
Thank you BBC. We need someone in America to do a documentary like this. Wake up people!!
its the factorys , do something with them instead of preaching to the people ,theres a differance
they can't 🤷
Again a land where a tree is rare. One solution is planting hemp. It prospers while absorbing heavy metals out of soils.
Once harvested it can become an essential export or prospect to many domestic products.
One more thing you could try is ask Santa Musk of Tesla to see if he would build some panels and storage devices similar to what they did in rural Australia.
There are large forests in Mongolia, but not in the Gobi Desert (South). The forests around Ulaanbaatar were chopped down centuries ago. It has been a learning centre for 600 years.
I don’t know why everyone thinks this global issue can be solved by one man or one country or one organization it has to be a global cooperation between everyone, also there’s so much pollution solar panels wouldn’t even receive the light they need
Most revealing documentary
Will we ever learn from the lessons and warnings?
I lived in Borneo, I can feel the same situation during haze and rainforest burned during summer. It was so thick , the haze came up on the rises during at night and in the morning, everything is smog foggy air I breathed, came to our windows and house . fortunately it only happened during summer when have no rain for 4 months. It was because the mud land will dry and set fire it self during dry hot weather in equator line but getting worse because human did some burning too, especially burning theirs trash, burning theirs farmer land. Because burn something is some kind of culture in here.
And luckily plants are easy to grown in here after the plants got burned. Seems in equator line , the plants will heal it self after they got burned and the rain water intenses during thunderstorms helps to recover the plants. Yes, thunderstorms rain have a big role to heal the burned forest it self.
But in this video, I saw no forest and no big tree and not so many plants.
Plants do much for make the air more fresh.
Your burning Coal it's not rocket science !
And its not rocket science if its all they could afford for heating without breaking the bank.
@@arnowisp6244 yeah no one is taking advantage of this situation especially the government ! Natural gas is all over central Asia
WE'RE ALL UNDER ATTACK Geoengineeringwatch.org check it out. .
I am from ulaanabaatar and when we travel to school and back we need to wear masks or we can't breath so well and the smell is just disgusting
The good thing is that in the summer it's better and when you go to the country side there lots of fresh air which is the nicest feeling ever
I think your country is beautiful and fascinating. I find the Mongolian people charming - calm but energetic, independent but very caring and gentle - from what I have seen in films and documentaries. I would love to visit one day. We had many problems with pollution in the UK but it is possible to overcome with the right legislation. You must never accept that 'money' is the most important thing , the health of the nation is.
"Damn Mongolians! Leave my City wall alone!"
Nooooooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That baby is sooo cute! This is way too sad.
You couldn't see your hand in front of your face when the smog came down in London prior to the sixties. It cannot be just coal that is affecting these people.
"Almost apocalyptic"
Oh, please. Enough with the hysteria. Just help the Mongols change their practices for better fuel efficiency, and problem solved.
As a Mongolian, I’m sad to see my home country become like this. The last time I was in Ulaanbatar was three years ago, and the air pollution seems to have gotten worse. I wish more Mongolians would get their heads out of their asses and realize what’s happening.
Wrong way round guys. This is an image of the past not the future.
This was London... in the 1850s.
This was all of Europe, stuck in everlasting smog. There's a reason why the Victorian aesthetic is so cloudy and smog filled and it's because of raw coal.
I don't think anyone can understate the improvements we have made in the decrease in pollution in large cities, between moving to electric heating methods, moving factories out of the cities, using natural gas instead of coal to heat homes, and gas instead of petrol or wood to cook, we have decreased pollution by incredible levels to the point that modern European (Not so much American, but it's getting there) cities would look like eco paradises to the late 19th century or early 20th century eye.
But for developing countries like India and China this is becoming the norm.
@@williamfullofwood7421 yes, it is... for a while, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, it used to be like this... until they build a new power plant, allowing people to use electricity for more things and passed regulations forcing several public vehicles and taxis to use natural gas instead of petrol or diesel.
I can't say the city is clear, but a lot of the pollution decreased. But as the technologies become cleaner, as electricity becomes easier to use, and more ubiquitous, as cars begin to become electric like in the West, the pollution will go down.
These are growing pains of semi industrialised economies. As they go through to full industrialisation, move factories further away, turn to electric, etc... the smog will go away just as it did in Europe and the American East coast (Americans have this stupid obsession with petrol or diesel cars, that's the only issue I'll be seeing in the near future, both India and China need to stop their obsession with cars and make the cities pedestrian friendly)
@@haleffect9011 What do you mean not the US... We use the exact same types of energy that's used in Europe... Our cities aren't ultra polluted. New York City has less air pollution than Berlin. San Francisco has less air pollution than Paris.
This is due to use of diesel in Europe. It gets more miles but produces more hazardous byproduct.
Most European cities have more air pollution than American cities. Our numbers are thrown so out of wack because our country is huge and, thus, transportation contributes to about 25% of our greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture contributes about 10%. Maybe lab grown meat will catch on and this will go down.
Instead of comparing the US to, say, Germany, it would make more sense to compare it to the entirety of Europe.
Our country has less air pollution than Europe... Its Europe catching up to the US.
Or you can live in a fantasy land without actual statistics. Totally your call. It's easy enough to check air pollution statistics online.
Here's a summary of the findings on air pollution for 2017 across the US and the EU:
"PM2.5 is the primary pollutant of concern in the U.S. while PM10, NO2, O3 all are well above their acceptable limits in the EU."
Crushed particulate matter, think construction, is the biggest problem in the US. The other factors not related to construction are exceeded in the EU regularly.
Hope this helps!
Total misinfo. The pollution is mainly caused by open ashpits with the wind constantly blowing. And cattle dying in winter is normal, it has always been a constant risk since the very beginning. In the old days they had agreements between the tribes that granted access to foregin pastures in case of such harsh winters, but this is no longer in place. Everyone is commercially oriented and seasonal movement between pastures is also going out of fashion.
It's the social disintegration that started with the Manchu takeover and then intensified during the Soviet occupation that make it such a huge problem for these isolated families. Capitalism today only delivers the coup de grace to self-sufficient nomadism.
If they were really worried about the nomads, they'd talk about commercial goat breeding that really does turn the land into a desert wasteland.
Someone who doesn’t take the video at face value I like it
@@evanw2195 I know, right? Typically I believe none of what I hear & only half of what I see. Even that statistic is dicey nowadays!
Did many cities in England look much better during the industrial revolution? Many countries haven't had their industrial revolutions yet... and while they begin to have them, you can expect this type of thing. Short term losses, for long term nationwide gains; it's a process that will take time. For the west to wag fingers is very hypocritical.
Oh gosh, it's hard to imagine us (in the US too, not just England) during the industrial revolution. But I dont know how hypocritical it is in this case specifically honestly, just because people are also so harsh about it in their own country. At least here people seem to be understanding that they have more problems with finances than us in more developed areas and not just blindly blaming them for once!
Each time you buy solar energy, electric cars and promote green the future gets better and better not worse.
All of those things end at a smokestack.
Electric cars do not help as much as you think they do. Cars today contribute 5% to all the pollution around the ENTIRE world. If you want to make a difference it’s industry you need to attack not cars.
Econ 101: Negative externalities...
"Let's save $x on utility costs by burning raw coal!"
(Spends $100x on medical bills and suffering from lung cancer + asthma over the course of their shortened lives)
Normally, I am not a fan of government intervention, but here, a government that taxes coal and subsidizes cleaner forms of energy (such as wind, or even natural gas which is still better than coal) will bring immense benefits, both from an economic and public health / quality of life prespective
I hundred % agree with you
Natural gas would be the best option. Getting solar or wind hooked up would be too long expencive and faulty for starting with and the gas wouldn't be hard or too expencive to get to people in the rural areas. Then you can work up from there
Is electric heater expensive there? I feel bad for them. Government should take action immediately. 😢😢
The babies were so cute 💞. I cried to see them suffering like this...
Globe have to decide about the purpose of manufacturing of what is need and essential for the lifestyle of people globally living if we do so we can minimise the warming,smog,pollution etc...
How do we make a change? We can’t we won’t simply because ignorant people don’t listen how sad is that. And we still have the nerve on wanting to go populate other planets... we are definitely taking the wrong steps if we want to preserve life for the future of mankind.
I see more people worried about the planet now than back before the BP oil spill.
This is a human problem, not a climate issue. China, India, and other South East Asian emerging industrial economies are polluting like crazy and do not care about the impact on the environment or human health. Western European nations and the U.S. set up well enforced industrial/manufacturing standards for air quality a long time ago. The emerging economies of Asia need to do the same.
You are correct. Unfortunatly these Asian countries are full of idiots. They will be the death of our world because they don't care for Earth and its animals. Other races are selfish and destructive.
Whom ever is controlling the usage of coal is to blame, greed is a ugly monster
This is why the world needs a technocracy system, our current world leaders are incompetent, monetary gain and control over resources is all they really care about, the system is well over due a transformation, concern should be given to sustainability within the resource base not monetary profitability.
Ultimate Tensile Technocracy??? Who do you think facilitates pollution? 🙈🙉🙊👨🏫👨🎓👨🏻🔬
nooooo, not my favourite land of eternal blue sky
Hey Grudges! Yeah, I know--I find it utterly heartbreaking too. Now where the Hell on Earth will we go?😢😥😭😰
Can't blame America on this one. We do our part we can't save the entire world.
No its totally America's fault because.
Umm
Racism? Yeah let's go with that!
I think the constant screen flickering is much more toxic.
Louis Kong
don't be foolish. you cry over the screen, and not the people's pain?
I hope your parents have raised other children than you, that have a human heart in them, instead of what you have.
how YOU MUST SHAME THEM!!
Old Mongolia is better. 0 pollution
Genghis Khan is turning in his grave
Yes? because everyone cooking by campfire is not pollution!? :P
No industrial level pollution, yeah
@@tazboy1934
at this rate we'll find it real soon
@@zu438 there's no comparison between what you can dish out with coal vs what you can dish out burning some wood. People have survived thousands of years using fire and not triggered any notable climate changes.
@@Cerbyo did I compare them? Nope, just pointed out that the statement was inaccurate and that it would be more accurate to add the word industrial. Also.....vast numbers of people cooking on campfires clearly does contribute to carbon emissions, albeit in a considerably smaller proportion to industrial levels of waste. So my point still stands.
This is natural.
its either this pollution or a freezing winter with no heating system
does the government have enough money to switch to gas? if so they should totally buy some from russia.
Russia sells to Mongolia at an inflated price because we have no other choice.
It's easy for you to say "the people in charge dont care as long as their pockets are lined" cuz people tend to (or at least want to) believe what makes sense in a most direct logic, like in a hollywood movie, every villain is pure evil and every hero represents the ultimate justice. In realworld however, the truth is always way more complicated than what it might seem to be.
In the case of Mongolia's pollution, the one and only problem lies in the country's economy. The people in charge definitely dont want to see this pollution situation getting worse and worse, its just that they r unable to put most of their focus on the environmental issues while most people r still struggling in poverty. There is first priority, then important issues.
I think it's been proven most governments are corrupt, they don't care any more about the poverty and struggles of their citizens than they do about climate change. FACT. All evidence points to them only wanting to line their pockets..
Only slightly more complicated; they care more about themselves and their own families than they do about the planet or the human race as a whole.
They're literally so selfish and short-sighted that they would rather be the death of the world as we know it than change careers or invest in other industries.
@@Vix2066 Ur statement has just proven my point, that most people r viewing politics in an extremely simplified and reckless way.
If it's really like what u said "its been proven" that "all evidence points to" most governments "only wanting to line their pockets", then it seems like the governments r there for no reason but to steal people's money. And if that's the case, how come we haven't seen most of them getting overthrown by their citizens?
And I can give u the answer. That's because the citizens do see efforts coming from the gov on different aspects for improvements of the society. It's a universal fact that every government functions in multiple ways aiming at improving people's lives (under their own nation's situation). More importantly, that's why even though there are still lots of social problems, their people still put hope on the gov.
Yes of course there is corruption inside every government. But in most cases, its definitely not the one-in-charge's intention, rather due to the lack of administration or regulation.
When we r talking about mongolia's situation, it's better if we first learn about their history and political/economic situation instead of commenting in a rhetoric which favors the majority's ideology. There is enough fake news on our media that have poisoned millions of people's mind, why can't we start to be more responsible for ourselves?
@@cornuschristi1814 You need to know no matter what country ur in, the government will have to worry about so much more than just "change careers" or "invest in other industries" or other subjects that may concern urself. They take care of every single issue within the nation, economy, infrastructure, education, employment rate, social welfare, racial/religion issues, law enforcement, defense of state, international relation, resources, enviroment etc etc. Every policy they make will have impact on certain people's lives, and every policy takes a lot of money and a wide range of time. The ones who benefit from the policy will like it, others won't. But the point is there r too much for them to worry about. They r not only serving for one person.
There pollution so out of control cause they all use cole to keep warm.
Instead of China investing in other countries it should help it's own people that's sick son.
Delhi is worse. Smelly as hell.
A big brown air cloud over it, so I saw on a propaganda news item some years ago.