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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ธ.ค. 2012
- We went to the single most polluted place on earth, the coal-mining town of Linfen, China. In part 2, we check out illegal coal mines and find out what what makes China the world's leading polluter.
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the sun sets in the middle of the sky behind the cloud of pollution that blew my mind
+Chris Hall
Have you seen the haze in Malaysia? You can't even see the sun.
Nikorasu Chan I just watched, I think it gets that bad some days in China too. Very sad, we need clean energies.
Chris Hall
The air literally smells like something is burning. I only get fresh air from the toilet (due to the smell of the water in it)
Nikorasu Chan Oh that is so sad im sorry :(
I wish you well my friend and a better cleaner future.
Chris Hall Thx my friend.
The main reason why the haze happened is because of forest fires in Indonesia. It happens every once a year, and usually in dry season. It's not just Malaysia and Indonesia tho, many southeast asian countries got hit pretty hard.
Check out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Southeast_Asian_haze
Why do people think this is local and don't harm us on a bigger scale. Just wait and watch, it's only a matter of time.
@@dacealksne ur an idiot
Imagine all the people that hate pollution... Probably a big fucking number. Now imagine all the people that are going to do something... fucking microscopic.
+jaime estrada Hey, I've got my T.V. shows to watch! Don't judge me.
Not everybody has the power to do it. Those with the power to do it, generally have a vested interest in maintaining various situations as they are. In a place like China where the government doesn't have to worry about being elected, and has control over the economy, they should really be doing a lot more for the health of their populations and the world.
That's because most people feel that there is nothing they can do about it.
Blame those greedy bosses who would not spend a penny on how to run business without polluting the air. The earth will reset as soon as the forrest clean water and air are gone.
I love how they had the balls to end with a joke.
how come the first part had 2 million views and the second part just 300k?
+The Activist That's pretty much it or they were traumatized watching part 1 or they felt really really bad for the people of china and couldn't watch Part 2. lol
+TDMThaya Or they just didn't care enough to watch the second part...
Cause the document was borning to watch so they didn't care to watch the rest of the video.
Because they are trolls. They care nothing but leaving toxic comments.
Part one was enough
"And when I picked my nose my boogers turned black." -_-
David Riker 😂😂😂
Lol. 😂
I lived a year in Changchun and this is definitely true.
On some days it looked like sunset the whole day, because no matter how high the sun was up, it was always dark red.
It was a really eerie and apocalyptic feeling on these days.
@@rolux4853 oh
kind of difficult to understand.....China is making billions of dollars per year but not spending a cent on making a better way of life for themselves.....if in 20 years they have polluted 16 cities I can not imagine what is going to happened in the next 20.
From what I read, they are putting a ton of money into renewable resources.
Corrupt government maybe, soviet mentality and a bunch of other reasons :/
Believe me, the poor have STAYED poor. A lot of the wealth in china goes to very few. They have a drive to work and get wealthy far beyond that of most westerners. They are masters at making stuff from almost nothing, or making products from stuff that was rubbish.
Its called total government control AKA communism socialism basically its a system created to be run by socio and psychopaths.
Link Knight Same goes for India as well lots of people finding creative ways to make money even from trash.
What a great documentary! Being a Chinese, thank you for looking at this environment issue objectively! I truly understand how serious this problem is. PM2.5 is normally above 150 in major cities, like Beijing and Shanghai.
It's sad to see our country suffer like this in the name of economic growth.
Being an English, I agree.
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The solution for capturing carbon was discovered in my lab and candle shop over 40 years ago. I knew back then that this was going to come to this day. I had to search for the answer and did. The heat loss from a smokestack can be forced or harnessed into a large tank containing hot liquid microcrystalline petroleum wax. The heat will keep the wax in a molten state which facilitate the carbon to be absorbed when combined with the wax. Carbon when mixed with wax reacts like a dye. The wax-carbon amalgamation will result in a black wax solution thereby making it impossible for the carbon to escape into the environment while in a liquid state. Other toxic particles are also captured in the wax settling at the bottom of the tank as a sludge. A sludge release valve is located at the bottom of the tank. After the sludge is removed more wax is replaced in the tank working something like a toilet. The sludge becomes a byproduct that can be used as an additive to asphalt for roads or used for cocooning nuclear waste materials for long-term safe burial. The entropy of the Earth has been increasing at a startling rate since the beginning of the industrial revolution caused mainly by the carbon that is released into the atmosphere. Government scientists have failed to stop and prevent carbon pollution from entering the environment. This problem can only worsen until a solution is found before this problem becomes irreversible. It has been discovered that formulated wax has been shown to be the only answer to this problem.
PREVENTING SPREADING RADIATION:
This formulated wax will also help prevent the spread of radiation such as preventing the escape of Plutonium dust particles from nuclear reactors or from structures or buildings housing radioactive materials. In 1994 This method was successfully demonstrated on the Sarcophagus of Chernobyl's blown-out reactor # 4 that was leaking Plutonium dust particles through open seems. In 1995 formulated wax tape was used to cocoon radioactive metal that had spat out of the reactor at the time of the explosion for safe long-term burial. In 1993 a wax membrane method was used in the yard of an abandoned house about five miles from Chernobyl to demonstrate how to reclaim radioactive contaminated territories for re-cultivation.
I have been researching wax for solving mankind created environmental problems since 1969. As I aged, I discovered many other uses for wax such as making candles or replicas of people's hands. This led to coating the hand castings with latex rubber. After the latex had cured, I inserted latex rubber tubing a quarter of an inch tubing in the tips of each finger that was sealed with the latex. After the latex had cured, I was able to pull the end of the tubing that caused the fingers to contract. By pulling the ends of all five tubs the hand would close or grip and was able to pick up things such as a pencil or jelly beans just like a normal hand would do. The end result would act like a normal hand. I was able to color the hand to match the color tone of the hand that I replicated. The end result was a prosthesis hand. Through the years I have discovered many other uses of formulated wax for solving environmental problems: Here is a list of confirmed uses since 1969.
OTHER USES FOR SOLVING POLLUTION PROBLEMS USING WAX:
• Remove oil spills from dry or wet sand, soil, water, ice This method was demonstrated for the Canadian government in 1974 to remove oil from a beach on Passage Island. This method was demonstrated to the US Coast Guard on two occasions, one in Hawaii and the other in the state of Texas demonstrated to the Canadian Coast Guard on two occasions. Oil can be removed from beach sand as though it was a giant carpet More demos were shown to the Canadian press on three occasions.
• Preventing radiation leaking from reactors, buildings, and storage facilities. This method was used to prevent Plutonium dust particles from escaping into the environment from open cracks and seams on the Sarcophagus of Chernobyl's blown out reactor # 4 in 1994
• Cocooning asbestos coated pipes wiring for safe removable This was demonstrated in the basement of an apt building that has 319 feet of loose asbestos
• Cocooning radioactive waste for a long term safe burial. This method was demonstrated in Chernobyl by removing a 4” x 5 ‘ rusting metal tubing that was buried and coating half the tubing with a special microcrystalline wax and then re buried.
• Removing radioactive contaminated hot spots from soil surfaces approx. 4 feet square in Chernobyl in 1995
• Preventing uranium mine tailing particles from becoming airborne in 1987 by laying a wax membrane on the mine tailing surface in Elliot Lake Ontario.
• Preventing radon gas from entering into homes or buildings demonstrated on three homes having very high Radon levels where 95% of the Radon was blocked.
• Preventing crushed coal dust particles from escaping moving open rail car trains was demonstrated in 1975 by spraying hot microcrystalline wax on the exposed coal surface to prevent the coal particles from becoming airborne while the train was in motion.
• Preventing fly or bottom ash pile dust particles from becoming airborne Removing bunker oil, diesel fuel, gasoline transformer oil demonstrated for Ontario Hydro in Kinston Ontario in 1991
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It’s sad there’s not one thing that isn’t affected by toxic pollution in this world
This is so well-made. Kudos to the director/editor.
''The stars do come out in Linfen'' it didn't refer to literal stars but the performers at the end of the film.
udlock9 he meant the performers lol
udlock9 Actually your wrong anyway,USA does not have near the pollution and there for light pollution
udlock9 lol you can hardly see the sun no way the stars
Wow very astute of you... 🙄
*slow clap*
this was our problem in 1850-1915 , now china is in this stage of the industrial revolution.
Save your time explaining what is "regeneration" to all these dumbfucks. Let them believe that China is on a suicide mission, despite having a 5000 years of civilization, alive and kicking.
They somehow magically believe that the Industrial Revolution in 18xx or 19xx was cleaner (with primitive machines/tech) than now.
Dumbfucks should go back to sleep... watching youtube videos are not suitable for them since they can't even think straight. People worry too much these days and can't get their priorities right.
+ying ~ 5000 years? Not as a single on-going civilization no (The Chinese Legacy contains many changes over it's life) , the longest is Egypt at 3000 years.
By your logic, some of the places in Africa are TENS of thousands of years old, but those are not all civlizations, nor are they one running civilization like Egypt
Not that any of that matters because civs come and die all the time. And a country doesn't always cease to exist when something bad happens, sometimes they down hit a downfall that they cannot recover quickly. (Great depression is a great example)
Also China changed alot, it's hard to say if it will be around the next 20 years. And not just China. U.S, Russia. India, and so on. The world is changing so rapidly it's hard to predict what will happen. For all I know oil could become almost valueless and kill U.S economy. Or Russia could piss off nato more then they already have and cause a massive war. India could strike some dams in Iran causing another horrific war. There could be new techs that changes our economy, our relationship between countries may change.
So I don't give a fuck if Canada or what not lasted 1 million years, things are changing so fast, nothing is safe right now. Things could be better, things could be worse in 50 years.
Anyways, 1800th and 1900th was smaller scale then what resources we go through today, and really it comes down to policy about pollution. If business don't get in trouble, they will cut cost and to make more money.
It's not about the tech, it's about policy. That is what caspar was implying. But that went waaaaay over your head didn't it?
ANYWAYS THAT ASIDE. You would have to be pretty fucking stupid to think there is not pollution issues in China. I traveled the world, including China. China pollution level is HORRIFIC, just horrific. Not sustainable at all
Anyways don't say who is suitable to watch youtube, that isn't your decision to make, I mean I personally don't think you should be allowed outside a mental facility but I keep that to myself (Oops, did I let that out?)
Biased fuck. Get outta here.
+Ying wow, that 5,000 years sentence was so idiotic.
+Ying ~ china had hes time in the sun, they are on a suicide mission, after watching this , it must be clear to even the mos tlow IQ people!,
and because somethign existed for 5000 years, doesnt mean it will exist tomorrow, infact i will predict that china her economy will collopase before we are in the year 2020, it cannot sustain it self, its housign market is a hot air balloon, the poluution is too much!, people will not accept it much longer!,,
basicly china is the cheap immigrant worker, who works for 1 dollar a day, and all rich western countries buy cheap stuff off them., that is basicly it!, china is the poor kid that sells cheap stuff ,and never invents or makes anything them selves, just cheap copies!.
Caspar Politman INDiAN cenema
Thank You Vice Showing what the Government in China don't want the World to See,
@josh otis Wtf is that sentence?
@@sirloock8360 both of them...
@Loyal Royalty If i had a sticker I'd give you one.
You just didn’t see, the government clearly wasn’t hiding it and couldn’t hide it lmao…
lol. This is false. If China is trying to hide the pollution, they wouldn't have tried so hard to change it.
Great video. One of the best videos in a long time. Good work.
Ty for trying to draw attention to this. So sad when people are afraid to speak or maybe I’m just a spoiled American. Anyhow I’ll continue to pray for them because that’s all I feel I can do❤️
The world is such a fucking dystopia.
There is still hope.
Chris Jones Very little. Greed and consumerism overrules peace and cleanliness.
Chris Jones nah it's gg.
timmy96124 bg*
China is the world ok go live there focusing only on the negative is so cool.
"When I pick my nose my boogers are black and when I eat them they don't taste nearly as good as they do back home"
LoL
its true I had to stop in China for 2 days before going to japan, when I got to japan I took a shower and all my boogers were all black.
in subtitles it says burgers instead of boogers which is odd
@@ssxlvr black burgers lmao.
Save The Earth? HA! Earth isn't going anywhere: WE are!
+TheUnatuber Including all of the ecosystem including your family and your pet...
+TheUnatuber yeah but what really sucks is that we're wiping out all other forms of life on earth also
+TheUnatuber *SAVE US*
+TheUnatuber George Carlin was right all along.
Save the bees, save the trees, save the whales, save those snails
People in the USA wonder where all the jobs have gone. Well they can thank themselves. Look around you in your home. How much of the stuff you have is made here in the USA? I bet less than 10% (if that). We (with our money) are encouraging companies to find "the best way to lower product costs" without regard to anything else (besides their profits). This encourages them to outsource labor and materials to countries where labor and materials are cheap. If Americans want their jobs back, they should use their money to "encourage" companies to produce products in the USA with materials from the USA. Yes it will be more expensive but that is because people here are paid better. As well, our government, many citizens and various groups put pressure on companies to keep things cleaner so that raises costs a little. Much pollution can be prevented if everyone started purchasing locally made items made from local materials. Where I live, there is a shirt maker who sources their organic cotton within the state I live. All processes in making the shirts are within 100 or so miles of where I live. The price is reasonable as well considering the quality and the impact on the local economy. This would also affect the pollution in China. Less products imported from China, less pollution in China, less slave labor being utilized to produce inferior toxic unsafe products. When will we learn?
Hahaha Obama is not the president anymore and jobs are coming back.
@@frankbaumann1990 and now covid has us by the balls and Trump fucked up. Now we have biden. will things improve?
@@exhydraboy2429 And now Biden is doing nothing, maby we should have Re-elected Trump
Thanks! Well done documentary.
I know its not supposed to be funny, but when he goes through all the signs of how important the environment is and then on the last said "if you dump trash here your entire family will die" truly made me crack the fuck up.
The dark humour is gold
Last year I visited a brand new tall office building that was constructed right next to a big coal fire plant with the chimney not even above the top floor and in a distance of perhaps some 100 feet from the windows. I was looking for office space and the guys showing me told me not to worry because the air conditioners have filters. The windows were already extremely dirty from the smoke from the power plant. But, those filters wont remove dioxin and other invisible cancer causing toxins.
Thank you, Vice. I would like to see more material like this, especially about The Big East.
Really nice combo with the footage and the music at 5.00. Cool camera -action
One of my Fathers good friends goes to China a lot for his work, and he said it is absolutely horrible there with the amount of toxic smog that is just almost everywhere in the major cities. People on the streets coughing up who knows what, and the amount of respiratory related issues is growing exponentially.
"When I picked my nose, my boogers have turned black"
4:30
Vice translated it to "Your welcome" meaning "my welcome"
When correctly written it should be "You're welcome" meaning "You are welcome"
The camerawork at 11 minutes has huge impact, great shot.
6:00 they should start producing solar pannels on mass scale, instead of the cheap plastic toys!!
They do. China is the leading manufacturer of solar panels.
Ok and Put them to use!
Typho0n
China is installing more solar power this year than America has in total.
solar panels are clean but the surface area needed to compete with coal mining is enormous. With that many panels maintenance costs versus energy output may not be worth it anymore. Solar panels are old technology if they were practical we would be using them on a much larger scale.
There is also a dust problem for solar panels. The air polluted parts of China also have lots of dust from the burning of coal and gasoline. Dust on the panels blocks the sunlight. Extra maintenance of wiping the panels clean, increases the ongoing cost of solar power in these polluted areas.
Please, enough excuses > China had many models from around the world that they could have followed in the 70's at the start of their industrial revolution .
But, they neglected the opportunity in order to profit with total disregard for the environment.
China could have been the example of the world on how industry & environment could have worked together.
All of the mistakes from other countries industrial explosions could have been avoided , with the opportunity of creating new Technologies & with the jobs that go with them.
But, no greed & the drive to try & become a world super power was an all out, any cost directive > regardless of the sacrifice of their own citizens & the environments from contaminated farm lands to over polluted water ways & lakes, to the un-repairable draining of vital aquifers that will take 10's of thousands of years to recharge , if they even do.
As the deep Aquifers were probably created from the retreating glaciers & not from the local mountains & hills.
Then there r posts saying that I can only afford the cheap prices of Walmart & dollar stores.
But really, if the clothes u buy at Walmart start to fall apart after a month or u have to return the appliance or electronics 3-4 times before u get one that finally work , only to be disappointed 3 months later when it breaks down.
Compare these everyday occurrences to spending a few more dollars for a better quality product. Which might even have been made in China.
But , in regulated factories that follow the labour & environmental laws, usually a respectable company that insists on paying there workers a higher wage in a safe & healthy environment.
So really were u any further ahead with all the gas, time & inconvenience of shopping at stores with sweat farm, child labour forces, that sell the knock offs that today is a billion dollar illegal scandal
Besides its the feeder plants that spring up around a major company that drives the local economy.
That's what hurt the U.S & Canada with industry & manufacturing leaving to countries like China & Mexico for their cheaper labour & operating expenses.
Add to this the big box stores that knocked out all the small local mom & pop hardware, clothing & grocery stores, where u received friendly customer service not the garbage service that these box stores have as a workforce today, & u get the root cause of high unemployment & foreclosures on people's mortgages.
Let alone the health risks that cheap labour sweat shops with there low cost overheads due to by-passing proper procedure & ingredients, with the scandals of high lead & other heavy metals in what ever they can get away with & the illegal use or abuse of chemicals.
Like formaldehyde that was found to be in night ware 900 % over the safe limits.
Well I have said enough, but the CPP brought this man-made disaster upon themselves
If they would have spent the money & acquired the knowledge on ways that basically in some early cases was trial & air
China could have been a much different country that it is today..
Now China's options r rather limited towards what directions they can go to repair the damages for future generations
Unless money is not an option, & strict rules & regulations r enforced, the likely hood of an environment miracle in China is highly unlikely.
As far as the water problems go , they clean up their water ways & lakes or within as little as 10 years , will be forced to take there neighbours water by military force.
Shop the 100 mile rule whenever possible & lets bring big business back to Canada & the U.S where there is no replacement for the high quality & workmanship anywhere else in the world.
Apple is pulling all their manufacturing out of China & back to the States.
China had there chance, now with Unions swarming Chinese & Mexican companies for easy pick-ins & business's have to start paying higher wages & benefits>
Industry & manufacturing will be coming back home where it will be cost effective & profitable again.
Hopefully Apple will be the 1st of many to come back home, where they belong :)
"China had many models from around the world that they could have followed in the 70's at the start of their industrial revolution . "
Rome is the perfect example of an over-expansionist proto-democracy that fell to it's knees. Why did America not think about this during the colonial revolution? This assertion is absurd.
"But really, if the clothes u buy at Walmart start to fall apart after a month or u have to return the appliance or electronics 3-4 times before u get one that finally work , only to be disappointed 3 months later when it breaks down. "
Search up the process of obsolescence. It kind of fits together perfectly with capitalism in many parts of the world. Or do you honestly expect your everyday wares to be in their apex state after production.
"Now China's options r rather limited towards what directions they can go to repair the damages for future generations"
Not really. As far as historical context is concerned, China's industrial revolution matches that of London and LA only on a larger scale. China has been progressively leaning more towards western ideology even if it's seemingly less apparent due to their government's need to compete with the U.S. by doing what the U.S. does best; making something out of nothing. As long as they produce their own clean-air act eventually, there is still hope as there was for many other first world nations that experienced this phase of their lifecycle.
"Hopefully Apple will be the 1st of many to come back home, where they belong :) "
Source?
@@GothaBillsAndDeath coming back to these videos a near decade later and I kinda laugh at how apocalyptic the predictions people had. China is currently going through an EV revolution, China is the country that uses the most green energy on the planet, and is now in the process of building nuclear factories that will cut massive amounts of pollution. The world is getting better, thank God.
Glad you said this. I had no idea.
Depressing topic aside, this is how all news should be done! Awesome work Vice.
Some of those signs were pretty good saying to save the earth and all but that one sigh "If you dump your garbage here your whole family will die" made me be like holy shit, their serious about anti pollution. Imagine if tree hugers here in the US threatened to kill you if you don't start recycling XD
+Sadreli M Don't take it literally :-) "Your whole family would die" is kind of like "fuck you" in US.
+Sadreli M
Yeah, it doesn't sound too extreme if you speak in Chinese. It's typical to joke about it as well.
Yeah someone put a curse on that shit lol
Once China gets its LFTR up to commercial grade and mass produced it will help the economy even more and start to improve the environment by slowly declining coal. The extreme pollution and smog like in LinFen will only highlight this dramatic change more. Nothing much will happen before LFTR is mass produced however. Only once the economic benefits are blatantly obvious will other countries start to follow.
Before that will be solid thorium reactors, which will help a little, but will be less effective. It may even hinder this progress by China abandoning LFTR in favour of solid thorium like America did in the 50s with light water reactors.
India may switch its plans from solid thorium to liquid. America, Canada and the UK may be the last to follow. China has already monopolised the rare earth market and and stockpiled thorium, unlike the US which spends billions to destroy it.
For more information please see Gordon McDowell's TH-cam, my simpler edit of his thorium remix or I can offer you a huge list of the best edited videos on this subject. Any radiation fears or beliefs I can also answer, eg Guarapari's beaches in Brazil has natural radiation levels 30 times that of Chernobyl.
Mixing nuclear power with crapping Chinese building practices and earth quakes will solve the nuclear power issue for China. Earthquakes kill many people in China with poorly built buildings. China does not have as many or as powerful earthquakes as Japan, but China still has more deaths and building damage than Japan from earthquakes.
I wondered the same thing. I think it's probably an empty threat but I certainly wouldn't want to test that and find out!
Yes! Thanks Vice
4:36 *you`re*
4:38
they need to stop using coal
u did it
u solved global warming
This is really eerie.
The Music though xD it fits so perfectly...
I worry about the human race and where it's going to in the feature
There is no future for the human race. The planet will live on but the damage we have done to it is already too severe to sustain human life over the next few thousand years. The earth will repair itself in a few hundred K. But were done for. Just the long slide downhill now. Unless of course we leave to go fuck up another planet. which we cant do because we still want war, not progress.
10:53 Dear Vice tv, is there any way that i can have a high quality screenshot of this image. This image shows china in its current form and would make an excellent wallpaper.
Really???
Set the video to 1080p> set it to full screen> press "print screen" on you keyboard> open the "Paint" program/or wtv it would be on a Mac>Press Paste>Click Save>???>Profit
Or
Install Real Player>set the video to 1080p>download it via Real Player Downloader>Open video with media player>screen cap the image>???> Profit.
Or
Go to China>go to that specific location at that specific time> take a picture on your phone/camera>load it onto your computer>???>profit
In the order of most practical solution, though I use the second option, but I'm a "nerd"
ebere213 I already did that but i just wanted an image from the raw 4k source files with no compression or artifacting. I thought that i would at least give it a try.
lol going nowhere
that is ingenious i wish someone would push this more.
I just hope things get better there.
This is what capitalism all about. You are probably asking then why is United States' sky and the land is free of pollution NOT like the China. That's because most of the manufacturing process are outsourced to China and other neighboring countries overseas. Then, of course USA will have a pollution free environment. It is simple as that. Don't get me wrong before all this, there were cities like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania long time ago that were really polluted just like current China, but they cleaned up their manufacturing plants and outsourced over time... Currently, it is rare to find anything MADE IN THE USA. These days you will mostly find label on the things you buy that will say Made in Taiwan, China, India, Mexico, etc. It is not a surprise that these countries have severe pollution problems. If it was only the United States that outsourced most of the manufacturing processes overseas, pollution may not be as bad as current pollution problem for these countries, but most of European countries also outsource their manufacturing...
+TDMThaya you work for China Goverment
+Noobs Gaming I don't work for any government to be frank with you. If I did, I would be set for life and wouldn't even care for TH-cam or even the Internet.
+TDMThaya ...china is a socialist utopia ....
+frankie goes to hollywood Wrong. It's a Communist hellhole. NOT the same thing!
VenomStryker
....a Communist is just a socialist in a hurry
This is what we have ChinaUncensored for.
Finally pt t2 :)
Jakarta used to be like this. However Jakarta has improved a lot, and I was amazed to see on my latest visit that there is the absence of the usual trash around the street and the air was a bit cleaner and easier to see further than 5km (now rated at about 8km via aviation meteorology reports)
Also about the sunset, that's also partially due to light defraction
I love chinese products its the only stuff that i can afford
***** So hard and deep?
Ariminua yes and in a fursuit! yiff yiff yiff! furries!
You see, its a false price though. Because a 50 dollar product you can get in the usa was generated using strict eco rules and regulations. The 5 dollar identical product in china does not represent its TRUE PRICE. To the earth. to the rest of the humans. In terms of damage done you are paying 1000% more by buying Chinese products vs a product created in say.. the UK, or USA.
CriticoolHit
Actually, products in general are a ripoff. Get this: it takes less than $50 to make a &700 iPad.
I love how this guy says they will be away from coal in 30 years.... by then, the oceans will be empty of fish and there will have been a world war 3 for free water... Better get your guns out people. Shit is gonna hit the fan soon enough
gg very informative and serious, like your way to make videos
01:13 it says:” Do not dump trash here, or else your entire family will be dead” on the abandoned factory wall.
Keep It Rolling, Rick ;)
Mongolia: Our capital city is one of the most heavily polluted smoking by burning coals.
China: Hold my Beer!
8:50 - well that escalated quickly!
I'm a bit fascinated by the fact that they don't have a bunch of train lines going out of Linfen. It seems like that would be much more efficient.
Ailun Yang with Green Peace is awsome for taking a stand. Vice is really pulling through lately.
As a kid growing up in Australia in the 60s and 70s i was only thinking the other day about the Chinese products that were exported to us..
Children sheet metal toys , battery powered torches, wind up alarm clocks with wonderful radioactive glowing hands and numbers, fireworks, art work ect...cheaply made but we payed a premium price as these products weren't available in quantity to us at the time..
Remember most products carrying a logo of a Dimond brand...
Thank god those days are gone !
i love vice documentaries but there always so short
8:52 Best PSA ever
Wait... Relaxation Performance center?! YOU RELAX LIKE A TIGER!
Yeah, straight to the point.
they usually do, it normally says 'original air date:20xx' in the video description.
How did I not know any of this?
Sounds like my moms fam in Brooklyn 40 years ago. 1 time my grandma who was a very decent lady dumped all the neibors trashcans out because they never put the lids on and it would blow every were.
Interesting perspective.
Worse part is that even though its that thick and such there, the winds bring that stuff all over the place. Even all the way to the U.S. east coast. Love your series documentaries have always been my favorite form of video since you see everything as it is.
One of my former schoolmates told me that the electricity in many areas are also not stable. If you look up Power Quality on Wikipedia. the sine wave is full of unstable waves.
I saw this video a year or so ago, also on youtube but without vice involvement, or at least not that i remember.
I can vouch for that..I use to live off Fordham in the Bronx. I live in Detroit now :)
it also looks a bit like after war, with all the broken houses and people going through it serching for usable things
At 1:13 on the wall it translates "Don't put rubbish here or your family will die".
Ricksang you have earned my respect
Exactly my point!
I was born in Tianjin and had lived there for 18 years. Now its air pollution is as bad as Beijing, especially during the winter time.
props to you
Ha! Good one! I needed a good laugh today, thanks bud!
Where is Part 1/2?
I can only imaginer how bad it is now
Interesting choice for music.
I guess you have been everywhere then, amazing achievment
London went through this in the early 1900s, New York did in the 60s and now it’s Chinas turn
8:52 "If you dump trash here your entire family will die" lol
that's awesome man. i lived in Wenxi, just outside of Yuncheng for a year. Used to hit up Yuncheng a few times a month. Ever go to Paulo's? Rad Italian dude who opened a pizza place in the city.
I do NOT agree that we are the worst polluters per capita. We have a problem with buying goods from polluting countries. Too much consumer addiction.
I agree
"if you dump trash here, your entire family will die"
that's EXACTLY what my neighbor said to me about a year ago when I used to throw my trash bags down from my balcony to his backyard.
At 1.45 you guys subbed wrong, it's 1987 what the Chinese fellow said. Not 1978. No discredit to the video, it's pretty excellent what it's disclosing.
It doesn't look like they can put up some solar panels.
anyone notice the mutalisk sound effect before the show in the credits?
How i wish vice could reach the place where i live and take documentaries
it's people like you that are single-handedly holding back the evolution of mankind as a whole. Please evolve.
It seems this was shot years ago, and only edited recently- Around the 10 minute mark, she is talking about the Beijing Olympic Games.. that was in 2008.
The sarcasm is Chinese cities recently showing advertisements about how other neighboring countries specially Indian cities are polluted to its citizens so that they can take action against the pollution growing in their county.
I cannot deny the growing pollution in India but If I compare the pollution I have seen in this video they are nothing. Specially the government is not so ignorant about the situation.
I have lived in many places including cities and villages in India and the water is not so much polluted. The water they use for agriculture is very good ground water. Though many of the major rivers are facing the problem of dumping the industrial wastes in it also persists.
Conclusion is both developed and developing countries are polluting the natural resources, but at-least most of us have google through which we can watch such videos and get self aware. Chinese govt. has put ban on worldwide search engines hence their youth are not even connected to the problems their country is facing.
VICE should consider time stamping these videos for perspective.
i lost it @ 8:53 "if you dump trash here you entire family will die" , btw that coal factory speakperson seems very intelligent and realistic
The ending made me lol
I'm 18 and I agree with hat you have said.
Is it that hard to put link to part 1 in description?
How does this video not have more views