Taiwan also has a serious problem with pollution though. Especially here in Taoyuan I noticed raw sewage being emitted into the rivers. The Keelung river is also showing a lot of dead fish. So no need to be on the high horse my man.
@@andersgale9544 At least in Taiwan the press can actually cover this issue. Eventually, the problem will be addressed. Taiwan has freedom of speech and press. This video is most likely blocked in Mainland China.
Pretty soon neither will be an optional alternative. China is going to look like a post apocalyptic hellscape in the next few decades and will be a testament of the destructive capability of greed and corruption.
This is precisely why every country deserves freedom of press. It is to address problems such as this. I hope that one day China will be free from the corrupt CCP. Keep up the good work, China Insights!
@@mikeharrington5593 a hole or not banning him for false information. Well then why does 80% of the bull people say thats 100% rong what about them. Oh ya they can still post but trump can't because he doesn't sugar cote things.
@@Nah_Bohdi Twitter is a private company and can ban whoever they like. Lack of freedom of the press would be the opposite, like if the president banned twitter. Or tiktok lol
In my local rural area in Switzerland, a site where toxic waste had been deposited was dug out several meters deep to remove contaminated soil and protect the groundwater and ultimately the future of our local population. The project was incredibly expensive, time consuming and created political controversy, but now everything is tidied up so we won't need to worry about it anymore. We have made a big effort to preserve a life supporting environment for generations to come. No way that would have been done in China. They would've moved on and done the same thing elsewhere. Bribes get you a long way in China.
Yes, similar thing in the US in 1980. Thousands of historically polluted sites were prioritized and cleaned up at significant expense (the program was literally called the Superfund). I shudder to think of the size of the effort that would be required for China to clean up all its sites.
The Chinese government: our rivers are so healthy and the fish are thriving so well, that they want to thank us. That is the reason why they jump out of the rivers.
China is just embracing diversity... The water choices are: Yellow Rust. Patriotic Red, Plaster White, Greasy Black and Backside Brown... With an occasional Clumpy Purple, Iridescent Green and Politically Pink available for special occasions.
This is the epitome of just not caring about nothing or nobody. "Dumping this into the river will turn it an apocalypse red? No big deal" "Hey Bill, help me throw my old couch into the river"
I saw it in little rivers in the mountain. The ground in Zhejiang, for example, is red so the rivers here looks like dirty water but it is muddy water.
Same thing happening in India. Overindustrialisation with neligience to supervision and substainability. The developed countries export all these issues to 3rd world countries while consuming all the benefits and gains.
Seeing all those fish washed up on that beach and seeing those fish jump out of the water was very worrying. You know it must be bad when fish are trying to escape the water while many other fish die in the water. That polluted water then pollutes the soil, then pollutes anything grown on it and anything that eats what’s grown on it. Crazy situation.
@@StevenSiew2 especially if it is the communist chinese yuan or the worthless renminbi!!! heck, being made in communist china, even those won't produce flames hot or bright enough to be useful!!!
Not sure the quest for money per se created this problem. It is probably more the need to engage a large population and provide necessities along with indiscipline and insularity that put China where it is. That of course, is now driving expansionist policies in the South China Seas and other parts of the world where it even has fishing boats as far off as South America. War is therefore imminent.
not to mention that one belt one road are polluting those poor countries, since China have no intention to look after their own home, what make you think they'll concern the environment of other countries...
China was warned in the 1990s that a unregulated growth of industry with simultaneous lack of enviromental protection laws will result in a catastrophy of epic proportions. They replied that no lie will stop china from surpassing all other countries in the world. China's ressources are infinite, and so is the will of it's people. The Dunning-Kruger Effect working on a national scale...
I think I have a phobia and it is China-phobia. I don't want to touch the water, breathe the air, go near Tofu Dregg construction of bridges or tunnels, go into buildings, drive on the roads with bad drivers and badly built roads, be around when there is heavy rain, or eat or drink anything, etc. I know too much about China.
I do not buy any food product from China. However, my fear is that the processed food companies are buying their food from china and makes its way into other products unknowingly...
There are villages along the Yangtze and Yellow rivers that are known as "cancer villages", where cancer rates are significantly higher than in other parts of the country. It seems that the unrestrained and large dumping of untreated industrial toxic wastes into these waters is contaminating the water that poor people, who cannot afford bottled water, use for drinking, bathing and cooking. Because they are poor and lack clout within China's authoritarian society, their plight is largely ignored by the wealthy and political elites within that country. The government(CCP) purposely turns a blind eye to this blatant and egregious toxic dumping because of local party corruption(bribes from the companies) and unrestrained production quotas in the quest for greater profitability. I could see the possibility of these pollutants further spreading as they leach into the groundwater supplies of these regions and get established in the animal food chains. It seems that China has managed to blend the worst aspects of both Communism and Capitalism into a synthesis that is truly toxic to humanity.
Not to be that guy... These same regions have virtually no vanadium in the soil. It is a trace nutrient that regulates vitamin C use, among other things. Without it, many health problems will surface. Some of the cancer villages were 'cured' by fertilizing the fields with vanadium salts. This was discovered in the 1980's... As for dirty water? Yeah, that's still killing people by the thousands every month.
To be frank, I’m surprised China has any fish in its own rivers at all.. I heard how China has overfished its own seas and has been encroaching in other country’s waters. If they overfished their own oceans, I figured they’d have done the same to their own rivers long before
Made in china is appreciated, but knowing the long term results such as this due to greedy environmental policies. Makes me want to wing off the support of china goods, not to hurt them but help them focus on their change.
@stolenelection They both are and thats apart of how bad things are. These lead to more sicknesses and more cognitive decline. So imagine whats going to happen to future generations that are born in these conditions.
@@thephilosopher7173 why do you think China is so aggressive in its foreign debt land holdings. Also the fishing in protected waters etc. They are getting desperate ,and now the bubble has popped.
@@itsm3th3b33 It's a matter of time, the rapid change of humanity is recent and it's causing massive problems environmentally in China and Socially in the US as well as other parts of the world. We are all slowly going to shit
Water gets filtered and cleaned as it slowly passes through the sediment layers. To pump sewage directly into the underwater reservoir means that there's no natural way for it to get cleaned. The amount of damage these officials have done to the Chinese people could be quite extensive. Clean water will become one of the most important resources in the future.
@@christempleton6348 If that was a good idea they would just clean sewage water and use it as drinking water instead of spending all that money pumping up ground water.
@@megalonoobiacinc4863 yes can get water from Himalayan ice melt, but with global warming there will be less ice. Thus: less ice melt, less water, and it's back to the slow death that is inexorable now.
"When the Chinese government starts to address a problem" it is usually too late and has become very serious. The problem had festered under the brilliant leadership of the CCP and President Xi.
That usually happens to any governing body that has grown too corrupt and inept to take immediate action. They don't recognize the danger until after the damage is done.
@@B.B.Digital_Forest China does not have more practice, it literally lives in that darkness. I wouldn't laugh if someone said 100% of all Chinese officials are corrupt.
Its usually because they are stressed from something. You will especially see this when heavy metal ions become present in the water, most commonly copper.
I used to know a family that lived by the Mekong river (it runs from China past various countries towards the sea). You couldn't walk on the sand barefoot because your skin would get rashes from the residual chemicals. Nobody swam in the water.
@@-Keith- Aye, I'm fellow Thai too although I not live near the Mekong, it's so sad that some Thai still think that China not cause any environmental impact there, or justify it.
@@enigma6682 สวัสดีครับ :) I'm actually a farang, not Thai. I just knew the family from when I visited Thailand for a month on vacation. Very friendly people there! And it is sad that there's so much pollution in southeast Asia that comes from China, especially the smoke from the factories.
I'm so disappointed in the CCP. By now, the fish of China should have the proper level of political education to stay in the filthy water out of pride for the CCP!
Many of the problems china is having now, the west had in the 19th century. Rapid industrial development causes environmental degradation and many of the other problems china is now facing. Many of the same things happened in the uk, europe, and America but we forget about them now.
@@chuggermagic We did not become cleaner in our production, we just produce in poorer countries and let them deal with the pollution. China is looking to do the same thing.
Probably. China is killing or has killed it's own rivers ecosystem. Traditionally, civilization and cities rely heavily on rivers, and if you kill or destroy these waterways, you end up collapsing your civilization. Why authoritarian governments suck; perhaps China will collapse as a civilization soon?
Same thing is happening in india too but fortunately we have climate activist and many journalists exposing the dumping of chemical water in river, even though government implement the rules its still not sufficient I hope we don't become like china
Sadly India has beaten China with more polluted cities tho it’s an even match to a point, as far as India goss tho most people see it as a 3rd world undeveloped dump, the air is hardly clean enough to see anything it was clear as day during the Covid shut down…. Still went back to how it was tho along with everywhere else. Can also say Indonesians are much much MUCH more stubborn & entitled & not willing to work to fix certain things as well. Very much a society issue that also needs tackled to focus on stuff being fixed. More or less it’s a sad dump reality future that can only be seen for India verse anything else, with how China already is & India being even to worse yet still more underdeveloped how much could it truly be helped or even have a chance at being better 🤷♂️
@@mattweh I think it's an overpopulation problem. Both countries would benefit heavily if their populations were cut in at least half. There's no humane way to do that ofc but overtime as birthrates fall across the developed world we'll see a steady, natural decline.
You don't have to pity the Chinese people because they love the CCP Govt. And, no need to pray for them because they don't believe in God. Chinese people believe that they are the richest country in the world, they don't need your money or donations. Xi Thought is now a required curriculum in All school levels . And, all religious leaders are required to chant and/or recite the CCP slogan, 学党史，颂党恩，跟党走 Learn the history of the party, praise the party, follow the party. This is clear proof that the CCP is a cult. … The Truth is … all my Chinese friends are laughing at foreigners outside of China. So No need to pity the Chinese. They really love the CCP and Xi Xi Pooh
Collective greed, and collective power though. Individual greed is often held in check by other individuals in countries that respect individual rights.
@@Bit-while_going Lol, no it isn't and you fucking know it. As if "respecting individual rights" ever saved the poor from the greed of the wealthy. And wtf do you mean "collective greed" and "collective power"? as if anyone who isn't a part of the business or political class are somehow getting kick backs. All I see are a bunch of rich, entitled, well connected pricks doing what they do no matter what section of the earth you're looking at do; concentrate power amongst themselves at the expense of everyone else.
@@8thhousealchemist600 every country in the west has some form of the EPA around. We monitor pollution levels, avoid dumping, strict litter laws etc. Not saying it's perfect but it's better than what China has going on right now.
as someone who grew up her whole life in the country side with accesible rivers and forest, that almost made me threw up. i cant imagine getting near a river that is colored black and fish actively trying to kill themselves rather than swim in that water edit: apparently those are silver carps who do jump over water when they are threatened. are they threatened by the water? probably ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think if this happened in a Western country, the people would be up in arms and literally destroy the source of the pollution... In this case, the factories and mines, making them no longer functional or able to recover.
@@D-B-Cooper They are jumping out because the water is burning them, the "smack you in the face" = engine boat that is scaring the shit out of them... and have nothing to do with this situation.
@@Bialy_1 fish die from pollution, these are healthy vibrant fish otherwise they would be belly up. It would take something very instantaneous like an electrical shock to set them off. Not sure what this has to do with ground water but China has had record rains for more than six months now and a lot of things have been flooded, some toxin may be flowing bye that didn’t instantly kill the fish. There are plenty of vids of Asian carp here on yt.
Immense thanks for this video showing what is happening for the precious groundwater in China, which is a lesson for all countries in the world more so for India since polluting industries are injecting their pollutants underground through borewells in several parts of the world.
In the typical communist country, somebody once said: "if you will leave communists in the desert and the sand is a high value and they can sell it, soon there will be no sand and they will be starving". In my own country, the situation was the same (during the communist regime 1948 - 1989) a lot of ecological disasters usually water was toxic.
technically stupid decisions happen in all forms of government, there's no point accusing a mistake that can be made by either communist countries, capitalist countries, or whatever form its in.
@@yunhel Yeah, well I can compare communist regime and capitalist because I have a personal experience. So from my perspective, you do not know what you are talking about.
@@leonardgrant6876 but saying capitalist countries don't make environmental disasters/mistakes sounds just really irrational or outright brainwashed though, unless you can prove it, you don't know what you're talking about. and we all have experience and history to read from, knowledge is widespread.
@@yunhel No, when I was growing up in my communist country, the environment was bad, there was a lot of smog many groundwaters were contaminated and so forward. After the communist government was put down in 1989 the environment improved a lot. Dumping grounds were cleaned however not all of them. Like I said you do not know what you talking about.
China nearly completed a dam which will partially deplete the water of the Brahmaputra river in India which is the main water source of more than 50 million Indians. Once a legend said that the 3rd World War will be for water. I hope not!
Well Brahmaputras most of the water comes from small rivers of Arunachal Pradesh but still it will be affected because of those dams and don't forget about sudden water discharge it will flood many villages in india and Bangladesh causing huge economy loss and people livelihood
@@Seminolerick india has many Allies to back it up Pretty much the entire west will back up on India China messed up when it started bullying all It’s neighbors, China is turning asean into an anti China nato
If you were smart you would investigate every food product purchased to make sure its not from China. You also must make sure other food products from other countries have no Chinese ingredients like rice or wheat purchased from china
I avoid any food products coming from China when grocery shopping at the supermarket. There's one supermarket chain where I live that sells very cheap frozen crumbed fish and frozen vegetables from China. Also, their line of canned goods from China is huge.
@@TOMAS-lh4er Its generally just all the pollution seeping into groundwater as well. China has different water grades for different uses. As the video title states, it has gotten to the point its almost unsustainable.
Ground water isn't just a Chinese problem its a monstrous problem across the world. They have extracted so much from the Southern California aquifer that its starting to suck in salt water from the ocean. Wells closer to the ocean are already starting to turn brackish. In Australia we have been tapping the Great Artesian Basin for decades without any restraint. Now we have issues with coal seem gas affecting ground water. Try this list of stories on ground water -> th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=dw+news+ground+water
@@TOMAS-lh4er Its going to suddenly become a worldwide major issue. Its gonna be like that linebacker the tight end doesn't see as he goes across the middle. When the ground water issue hits its going to be massive. Crops will fail and it will be catastrophic. People can't eat iPhones, Teslas, solar panels or COAL. Crops don't grow in oil and NOTHING on this planet breathes methane except maybe some forms of extreme bacteria.
No it is not, the flooding was allways poluting the surface water... The whole thing with ancient Egypt and how they were waitig for floodings for crops is similar to the method used in other places where farmers are to this day spreading animal manure on fields. You do not want to dring water from flooding, homes after flooding are not only dirty but also stinks.
Growing and selling vegetables you wouldn't eat yourself, now, that's the root of the problem. "I'm making money, everything else is someone else's problem."
I’d be curious to know how China’s bottled water industry purifies their marketed water and just how clean and safe for consumption it is there since so many businesses/companies take short cuts to increase their profits…
You know how Nestle imports water from other countries, bottles them up even when the country is facing severe water shortages and branding them saying they're better than normal water? Yeah. it's with China, with their Belt Road Intiative.
Chinese bottled water company management: 'why bother with purification, that costs money. Even if people do drink this it won't kill them until AFTER they've paid for it.'
@@Lotsielots Your government don't have any import check/control of foodstuff safety into the country? Example, in Singapore, they have plenty of check/control of imported foodstuff safety and there are plenty & all kinds of China origin foodstuff on the shelves of supermarkets. So based on this channel's report, we can expect the majority of Singapore’s population to be decimated or get cancer or whatever very soon ?!
Ground water is known to be the second best fresh water for any country and most countries have prohibited of ground water usage because to reserve it in order if water shortage occurs so then could be used as emergency , but in china I don't see it happening
China has little concept of conservation. Historically, the country was considered so vast and so blessed with resources it was never thought to be a problem.
@@Sinyao yes they never thought about it that's the problem with the people and the country nothing is plenty to them once there's are finished they try to snatch things from others
They are pumping waste water down into aquifers to get rid of toxic waste, otherwise it would have taken thousands of years for the chemicals to reach 3000 feet deep.
There is a company in Maui that is taking water away from the locals and shipping it to Japan and China, as Hawaiian that is disparaging as us locals are suffering from water shortages from hotels and the rich people taking away the precious resources.
..people have to start reading labels more carefully and if they aren't detailed enough then you have to do a little yourself..for instance quinoa and chia come from contaminated areas..but are supposed to be superfoods..furthermore, we get lots of ingredients from contaminated areas..not as bad as china, but it's starting to creep its way into our lives. For instance, just about everything we ingest now is full of micro plastics..there's nothing we can do about that because it's so ubiquitous that it's even in the rain.. ..in fact, especially in southwest states, they get a lot of ,especially produce, from mexico..another country l Ike russia, that could care less, especially if exported, about levels of contamination..and you know all they care about is bottom line..the whole planets going too shit one way or another..whether its mining contamination, droughts, wildfires, flooding, heatwaves, supersstorms.. ..permafrost melting, sea levels . ..it's all one big viscious feedback loop and nothing we can or are even trying to stop, at this juncture.. ...these little campaigns are good pr boosters, but really mean nothing at all.. ..one thing u can do for yourself is not consume anything with labels from places like Indonesia, china, Brazil. Basically anywhere but usa and canada..even Europe has some pretty contaminated toxic areas..now lately their trying to clean up their image such as France and Germany..but just about the rest of Europe is contaminated unkess you want 5o pay an arm and a leg..besides most European food products are extremely expensive ..I eat a lot of oatmeal beans sweet potatoes yogurt and things grown here..onions apples bananas-mostly grown here..tomatoes... .. never anything outside of this continent and very skeptical of Mexican staples.. ..products made from chiba , but food never..and fish, that's an entirely different story..basically your eating half plastic...you'll see..by 2050 major atastrophic climate..very inhospitable to human life..it already is in India. Or places like india..Indonesia. china..
"In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference." - Rachel Carson
@@maalikserebryakov lol There will both be more and less of this religious nonsense coming in the next decades Fools, simpletons and intellectual cowards usually gravitate toward religion when times are tough
This is why I refuse to be anything made in China. I have become a label reader and if anything shows up as anything to do with China I do not buy it. Living in Thailand it makes it a little difficult but I survive. I will have a garden next year. I have 7 access to plant my crops in.
Don’t forget TH-cam’s feeding you multiple videos of the same type based on what you engage with. So it’s easy to think China is a complete shit hole because of that
@@richardtaylor3471 I'm strictly speaking about the government of China here, that and the massive size of its police state aparatus, the ongoing series of blunders and insane levels of corruption, the lies about the cultural genocide against the Uyghur minority etc etc, you know, the stuff that's reported everywhere regardless of bias. But yeah I'm sure there are nice parts of the country, not doubting that.
This video explains what would have happen to the US if in the 60s and 70s people hadn't protested and fought for the environment. Of course the politicians also listened somewhat. So now the Cuyahoga river doesn't catch on fire anymore, and other rivers and lakes are still safe for fishing or recreation.
Difference between disappearing for worthy protest.And actually able to help with positive change.But the world elites love quick easy money so China is never worried about doing what is right!!
@@jeffc2630 You're saying that because either you think the situation in the US is way worse than it really is or that the situation in China is way better than it really is.
I have seen the Thames when I visited London in 2016 in order to see the Queen. The pollution in the Thames appears more like mud or something along those lines. I drank the water straight from the tap and had no issues that I could notice. If it's good enough for the Queen to bathe in, it's good enough to drink! By the way, and this may be off topic, but why does the UK have a Prime Minister AND a Queen? Is the Prime Minister only in charge of England and the Queen is in charge of the UK as a whole? And when was the last time the Queen stated "Off with his head!"?
@@charleswomack2166 no the queen is only titular she has no power though her rubber stamp is required on every law and everything is done in her name she just sits there happy to be called queen
I remember when the river in my town used to be super contaminated and black... Then all the factories shut down and now the river is crystal clear in downtown... Love the Rock River ❤️ (USA)
And that's why you always need to be aware of politicians who complain about "big government and their damn regulations", it is 99/100 times just a complaint they can't grossly exploit human or earthly resources with no consideration to anything but profits.
This is one of many reasons why they are aggressive in claiming other territories which is under other countries. The pollution is too much in their country
the citizens of china are the only ones capable for changing their situation. There will be a change. If your front teeth grew so big that you cannot even eat any more, you will have to rip them out to stay alive. Chinese people have to stand up against their corrupt and destructive leadership
I heard about this 15 years ago when a geologist working in China told my friend that China was killing itself due to their refusal to initiate environmental changes to their industry. Huge problem because China has major rivers dammed that used to flow freely to other nations. Now those nations are having severe water shortages.
China's Global Peace Plan: 中国对外友好方策: 1. Geopolitical jousting with all of its neighbors. 2. The incursions in the South China Sea 3. The naval aggression in the Indo-Pacific 4. The border provocations in Ladakh, India. 5. The bullying acts against Taiwan. 6. The erasure of Tibetan identity 7. The repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. 8. The purging of political opponents. 9. The crack down on the rich and influential. 10. The suppression of Mongolian language and culture. 11. The suppression of Religion in China; Islam , Christianity, Fa Lun Gong, and even Tibetan Buddhism. 12. Arresting Human Rights lawyers. 13. Illegal Organ Harvesting of Prisoners and Dissent. 14. Using the Belt and Road Initiative as a tool to control other countries into submission using Debt Diplomacy. 15. Using the Belt and Road Initiative as a tool to plunder other countries' natural resources and to build military bases in the guise of airports and seaports. 16. CCP Distorting UN Resolutions . 17. Revoking of Licenses of Human rights Lawyers in China .
Welcome to modern day capitalism. No limits. No checks and balances. All in the name of greed and progress. It equals death in the end. Nature will always win in the end. When we get to the point when clean water becomes scarce, then modern society will collapse. Period. Nothing else matters when the most basic requirement of water is no longer available. It's the reason that past civilizations disappeared. Water. You should look up the MIT study that was done in the 70's that predicted complete societal collapse would happen around 2040. This forgotten prediction model was reexamined in 2020 to see how accurate it has been with the model throughout the years. Basically right on track. Maybe a little faster. Look it up. It has been covered more recently all over.
The cities are being sprayed with chemicals to destroy the wuhan virus and the runoff after a rain ends up in the rivers. I remember watching a video last year showing all the fish around many large cities trying to jump out of the water or washing up on shore dead. People were netting the jumping fish for food. I don't know what the cities are sprayed with, maybe bleach (sodium hypochlorite), but it is toxic for fish. Just a side note, during a flood people were "fishing" for pigs from a bridge while the flood waters were carrying away livestock. They were able to snag quite a few of them. A lot of people were eating barbeque that night.
Imagine your lungs are burning from breathing in air. I would imagine that's pretty much how it would feel for the fish having god only knows what flowing across their gills. Probably burns like hell so ANYTHING would be better, air included.
The water pollution removes oxygen from the water. Causing the fish to suffocate. So they start jumping out of the water just to breathe. To get some oxygen on their gills.
I saw the photos of the cities being sprayed and I think it’s horrific. The damage done by this act will most likely exceed the benefits garnered from it. They are most likely using small sized droplets in the spray to get as much coverage as possible. This will mean that any wind will carry away the chemical being sprayed to other locations. This will almost certainly cause it to gather in the water. It feels like it was almost designed to do as much damage as possible while giving the least benefit. It is also extremely inefficient as the amounts used will be very high in concentration.
When I lived in China, I would still see people fishing in that polluted water. My buddy, who also liked to fish, said he'd go fishing and next to him, some dude was just pouring in paint in the river.
From the looks of things and the state of China, the gearing up for war and such is to get more resources and land because the land it has is dying. Floods, locusts, air pollution and now water pollution. It might be trying to expand outwards to stop itself from dying.
only thing is that a majority of their army (funding) is being used to beat down their own people and suppress those black swans wandering around tiannamin.
If humans used composting toilets with urine collectors there would be no more industrial pollution required to make chemical fertilizer. There was a time before industrialization when night soil was collected in cities and towns in China to take to the farms for natural fertilizer. Composted waste is safer. We have a homestead in the US where we compost human waste, goat manure, and chicken poop. It takes two years to compost safely then it is worked into the garden soil in late fall with ground cover to prepare the garden beds for spring planting.
@@GeckoHiker I know what you mean, using it as much as possible is great and natural and been apart of the process, but these days there is way too much and too many people making waste we simply couldnt use it all. And theres no way in hell farms would want the urine and poo from people living in the cities due to the heavy lifestyles people have ( fatty fatty foods, lots of additives and colouring and preservatives e numbers and the likes going into the composting system. You want good clean human waste from healthy lifestyles. It's like horse manure. There are grades
@@TheFreshSpam I agree with you. What they did in ancient times wouldn't work so well today. It would still be a very good idea to compost poo and divert urine from human habitation and livestock operations. Current waste handling measures use too much water and contaminate it. We are looking at methane capture on our property and gasification technology for replacing oil based vehicle fuels. This is the direction we could take globally to get past fossil fuel reliance and global warming. In India they are using backyard methane capture for cooking and heating. Solar ovens are interesting to use. We want to build one into a south facing wall. Good building design could change everything for the better.
Those of us blessed with intelligence are doing our best to carve out sustainable homesteads in rural areas. We haven't felt like it was safe to eat fresh-water fish in the US for over 70 years now, due to agricultural and industrial pollution of rivers, lakes, streams, and creeks. Modern agriculture is killing us, so we produce our own food, collect and treat rainwater, practice zero-waste in every area of our lives, and refrain from buying anything without checking the provenance. Even if one doesn't have a little land to grow most of one's food, we can grow something. In our house we have two very inexpensive "greenhouses" where we grow onions, scallions, celery, kale, spinach,collard greens, cabbage, and all the herbs. We grow carrots and turnips through the winter in a small space covered with leaves and straw. The rest of the year we grow potatoes, sunchokes, sunflowers, beans, squash, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, and all the other vegetables. And then there is the backyard flock of chickens. I've kept chickens in the center of a big city. Anything is possible if it's important enough!
Sounds a lot like early industrial revolution in the US. anybody remember the Love Canal in NY? the difference is, the US finally had to admit it and fix it unlike the chicoms likely course of action.
Yeah, the thing is that the us is polluting just as much as china, but no one wants to know about it.China and the us are the main countries that are destroying the environment. and slowly killing us.
The problem is.......the republicans have been killing off environmental protections in the USA for many years. Just look at all the damage tRump did in just four years.
Correction: 2:54 "Northern" and "Southern" are flipped on the map.
Lol I was just coming to the comments to ask if China had a weird naming scheme.
Bruh
CCP do ecological & environmental disasters.... To CCP Nature is an enemy. Well nature can be a damn bitch.....
@@Mac_Omegaly me too lol 😂🤣
Was about to comment and be like 'Has china been upside down on the map this whole time?' 🤣
China doesn't have to look outside for a enemy, it is fully capable to destroy itself from within...
Chinese history in a nutshell
just like 90% of the world
@@AIfpv truth
the ccp has that covered
They'll still blame the West for it.
West Taiwan is not doing as good as Taiwan, probably due to the lack of Taiwanese government in West Taiwan.
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Taiwan needs to liberate West-Taiwan.
Taiwan also has a serious problem with pollution though. Especially here in Taoyuan I noticed raw sewage being emitted into the rivers. The Keelung river is also showing a lot of dead fish. So no need to be on the high horse my man.
Or democracy too.
@@andersgale9544 At least in Taiwan the press can actually cover this issue. Eventually, the problem will be addressed. Taiwan has freedom of speech and press. This video is most likely blocked in Mainland China.
Imagine air being so harsh when we breath that we jump into the ocean to survive a little longer. This is so outrageous.
Not just to breathe, but on your skin. So the water is a temporary relief.
Pretty soon neither will be an optional alternative. China is going to look like a post apocalyptic hellscape in the next few decades and will be a testament of the destructive capability of greed and corruption.
This is precisely why every country deserves freedom of press. It is to address problems such as this. I hope that one day China will be free from the corrupt CCP. Keep up the good work, China Insights!
The US doesn't even have freedom of press. Our president gets blocked on Twitter, scientific facts get banned, corporations lie.
Mirror mirror....
We are heading in that same direction. It is necessary for control.
@@Nah_Bohdi Trump was blocked because he is a pathological liar, a threat to National Security, and an a- hole
@@mikeharrington5593 a hole or not banning him for false information.
Well then why does 80% of the bull people say thats 100% rong what about them.
Oh ya they can still post but trump can't because he doesn't sugar cote things.
@@Nah_Bohdi Twitter is a private company and can ban whoever they like. Lack of freedom of the press would be the opposite, like if the president banned twitter. Or tiktok lol
all that water ends up in the ocean too. Thanks China.
Thanks Obama
But all country do that thanks world
@@alvindms4660 sure but it's not this bad
@@alvindms4660 Not the countries that care about their coastal land value.
shame on twitter for censor democracy
In my local rural area in Switzerland, a site where toxic waste had been deposited was dug out several meters deep to remove contaminated soil and protect the groundwater and ultimately the future of our local population. The project was incredibly expensive, time consuming and created political controversy, but now everything is tidied up so we won't need to worry about it anymore. We have made a big effort to preserve a life supporting environment for generations to come. No way that would have been done in China. They would've moved on and done the same thing elsewhere. Bribes get you a long way in China.
Yes, similar thing in the US in 1980. Thousands of historically polluted sites were prioritized and cleaned up at significant expense (the program was literally called the Superfund). I shudder to think of the size of the effort that would be required for China to clean up all its sites.
The Chinese government: our rivers are so healthy and the fish are thriving so well, that they want to thank us. That is the reason why they jump out of the rivers.
yes, the fish is bursting with positive energy - ccp
this joke is getting pretty old， most of China Insight's reports came from the Chinese government itself.
Lol
That looks like that species of Asian carp that is an invasive species in the US. It jumps like that in American rivers too. Not a great example imo.
xD
China is just embracing diversity... The water choices are: Yellow Rust. Patriotic Red, Plaster White, Greasy Black and Backside Brown... With an occasional Clumpy Purple, Iridescent Green and Politically Pink available for special occasions.
Ahhh. Let's leave the Greasy black and Backside Brown out of this. Last thing we need is to integrate in China 😂😂😂. The rest can diversify China.
@@burntbronze.9082 youuuuuuu chiky man 13/50 coming to china too
@@guachingman naaa. We got enough problems in America 😅😅😭. Last thing we need is a one horse town.
Water diversity is our strength - Xi
@@madjoe8622 😭
This is the epitome of just not caring about nothing or nobody.
"Dumping this into the river will turn it an apocalypse red? No big deal"
"Hey Bill, help me throw my old couch into the river"
I have been traveling back and forth to China for 20 years and I can't remember EVER seeing a clear body of water or river.
I saw it in little rivers in the mountain.
The ground in Zhejiang, for example, is red so the rivers here looks like dirty water but it is muddy water.
in 1986 there was none !
I passed by a stream of rivulet coming from Dongguan and the stench was unbearable
Same last time I visited Beijing during winter the snows are black and dirty
You nailed it well. What more to expect from China, the Greatest Polluter of the World!
China isn't far from being a uninhabitable country...
No wonder they need Taiwan.
Need their water ect
Guess where they all go after their country becomes useless?
The CCP behaves like a cancer. Or some might say... like a virus...
Same thing happening in India. Overindustrialisation with neligience to supervision and substainability. The developed countries export all these issues to 3rd world countries while consuming all the benefits and gains.
That's why they want Taiwan and other countries in the South China seas along with some of the former Russian republics.
Seeing all those fish washed up on that beach and seeing those fish jump out of the water was very worrying. You know it must be bad when fish are trying to escape the water while many other fish die in the water. That polluted water then pollutes the soil, then pollutes anything grown on it and anything that eats what’s grown on it. Crazy situation.
Yet people were laughing at it in the second clip! I think I would be shocked and scared
"Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money."
But you can burn money! And you can use money as toilet paper.
@@StevenSiew2 especially if it is the communist chinese yuan or the worthless renminbi!!! heck, being made in communist china, even those won't produce flames hot or bright enough to be useful!!!
The Lorax in real life...
The rich will just flee to another country and let everyoene starve to death
Not sure the quest for money per se created this problem. It is probably more the need to engage a large population and provide necessities along with indiscipline and insularity that put China where it is. That of course, is now driving expansionist policies in the South China Seas and other parts of the world where it even has fishing boats as far off as South America. War is therefore imminent.
not to mention that one belt one road are polluting those poor countries, since China have no intention to look after their own home, what make you think they'll concern the environment of other countries...
Considering they're aiming their sights at Africa I'm not to keen on how well they're going to do with China's, "help"
I agree
Exactly.
sure, their dams and pollutions will screw those place, and some turds still endorse those projects (not even include debt trap).
The way chinesr are polluting Africa in zny area they are allowed to mine is astonishing.
China was warned in the 1990s that a unregulated growth of industry with simultaneous lack of enviromental protection laws will result in a catastrophy of epic proportions. They replied that no lie will stop china from surpassing all other countries in the world. China's ressources are infinite, and so is the will of it's people.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect working on a national scale...
This is what happens when you only produce and produce and forget about the impact it would have on your lands.
Not so much "forget" but ignore. The people doing this are rich enough to never use anything made in China lol
This is what happens when you're exploited by Americans.
@@violetviolet888 start taking responsabilities and not blaming others for your mistakes
@@violetviolet888 America must be super strong to exploit a superpower country, the same as America lmao.
@@alastoro6663 That makes no sense in this context.
I think I have a phobia and it is China-phobia. I don't want to touch the water, breathe the air, go near Tofu Dregg construction of bridges or tunnels, go into buildings, drive on the roads with bad drivers and badly built roads, be around when there is heavy rain, or eat or drink anything, etc. I know too much about China.
Me too. Watched too many of those vids
sinophobia lol
Yes but imagine there are people that have to live it and how hard it must be for them
@@kringle399 eh it’s not rly irrational tho, it makes perfect sense
I'm starting to make sure any Asian food I get is not from China.
I do not buy any food product from China. However, my fear is that the processed food companies are buying their food from china and makes its way into other products unknowingly...
There are villages along the Yangtze and Yellow rivers that are known as "cancer villages", where cancer rates are significantly higher than in other parts of the country. It seems that the unrestrained and large dumping of untreated industrial toxic wastes into these waters is contaminating the water that poor people, who cannot afford bottled water, use for drinking, bathing and cooking.
Because they are poor and lack clout within China's authoritarian society, their plight is largely ignored by the wealthy and political elites within that country. The government(CCP) purposely turns a blind eye to this blatant and egregious toxic dumping because of local party corruption(bribes from the companies) and unrestrained production quotas in the quest for greater profitability. I could see the possibility of these pollutants further spreading as they leach into the groundwater supplies of these regions and get established in the animal food chains.
It seems that China has managed to blend the worst aspects of both Communism and Capitalism into a synthesis that is truly toxic to humanity.
This is so hard to see...just painful.
The combination of the worst aspects of communism and capitalism is truly disgusting. 🤢🤮
Well spoken!
We don't even need to wait for it to reach the ground water because there literally pumping it down.
Not to be that guy...
These same regions have virtually no vanadium in the soil.
It is a trace nutrient that regulates vitamin C use, among other things.
Without it, many health problems will surface.
Some of the cancer villages were 'cured' by fertilizing the fields with vanadium salts.
This was discovered in the 1980's...
As for dirty water?
Yeah, that's still killing people by the thousands every month.
To be frank, I’m surprised China has any fish in its own rivers at all.. I heard how China has overfished its own seas and has been encroaching in other country’s waters. If they overfished their own oceans, I figured they’d have done the same to their own rivers long before
China destoryed more than half of their rivers and polluted most death. Water Per Captial is as bad as Desert nations.
They love Alaska. Coast guard has to Boot them out if those waters.
they are over fishing the worlds oceans they take 50% of the worlds food google it an stock up on canned tuna maybe
There is, but its inedible... then again would not shock me some factory would be harvesting them and processing them to say farm animal food...
Exactly, the Chinese would think this was a blessing,
Made in china is appreciated, but knowing the long term results such as this due to greedy environmental policies. Makes me want to wing off the support of china goods, not to hurt them but help them focus on their change.
Imagine if the air is so polluted that people rush to stick their head into the nearest body of water to drown. That's happening to the fish.
Wow. What a nightmare thought. Those poor fish
@stolenelection They both are and thats apart of how bad things are. These lead to more sicknesses and more cognitive decline. So imagine whats going to happen to future generations that are born in these conditions.
india.
@@thephilosopher7173 why do you think China is so aggressive in its foreign debt land holdings. Also the fishing in protected waters etc. They are getting desperate ,and now the bubble has popped.
That’s why some smart asses started selling “fresh oxygen” in a can a while back for fat profit $$$
This makes you wonder how they still alive at this point.
Look in YT vids for Chinas gutter grease...😳
well they survived many brutal emperors and the regime of The Dung Mao,
Chinese people seem quite resilient
@@Grubiantoll
Or this video is over dramatizing the truth
@@itsm3th3b33 It's a matter of time, the rapid change of humanity is recent and it's causing massive problems environmentally in China and Socially in the US as well as other parts of the world. We are all slowly going to shit
@@Thejeanio
But this video is about how bad it's in China, not the rest of the world.
to me these are not people. erase them from the good EARTH or she will erase all of us
Water gets filtered and cleaned as it slowly passes through the sediment layers. To pump sewage directly into the underwater reservoir means that there's no natural way for it to get cleaned. The amount of damage these officials have done to the Chinese people could be quite extensive. Clean water will become one of the most important resources in the future.
Leaving the soils polluted easier to clean water than soil
@@christempleton6348 If that was a good idea they would just clean sewage water and use it as drinking water instead of spending all that money pumping up ground water.
guess they will get all their future water from the Himalayas then?
Lucky that at least the countries with large resources of clean drinkable water are hard to invade.
@@megalonoobiacinc4863 yes can get water from Himalayan ice melt, but with global warming there will be less ice. Thus: less ice melt, less water, and it's back to the slow death that is inexorable now.
The scary thing is that when they finally completely ruin their own lands they will need to swarm out to survive. A very worrying thought.
I think they have their eyes on Africa.
It will turn into ww3 more than likely. I'm am very worried about the near future.
nestlis is already drawing the west coast so don't worry it's already
Absolutely right......the yellow locust plague
Was thinking the same thing
I am never buying any food grown in China.
"When the Chinese government starts to address a problem" it is usually too late and has become very serious. The problem had festered under the brilliant leadership of the CCP and President Xi.
That usually happens to any governing body that has grown too corrupt and inept to take immediate action. They don't recognize the danger until after the damage is done.
@@B.B.Digital_Forest Yea, sure. Lets normalize the CCP by comparing them to other more legitimate governments. Thanks bud 👍
@@arekekar7362 Corruption and ineptitude creeps into any government if its safeguards aren't strong enough. China just has more practice with it.
sorry mate but you misstyped winnie the flu.
@@B.B.Digital_Forest China does not have more practice, it literally lives in that darkness. I wouldn't laugh if someone said 100% of all Chinese officials are corrupt.
Saving this to look back on in 10-20 years. The degree of potential future devastation is terrifying.
It's all the fault of the USA and the U.S. Army, of course! Or, maybe the Italians. Or, how about the Australians? 🙄
@@johnc2438 No, it is the Indians actually.
@@johnc2438 that is actually funnily false… but possibly still true. The C.I.A and our governments could be long thinkers
@@johnc2438 Hey, leave us out of it. We were feeding them, but x i would rather starve them.
It's the fault of greed and nothing less.
Chinese arrogance and complete lack of morel fibre is coming back ti haunt it.
Fish jumping out of water like that would be like seeing choking humans jump in water as if it would save them.
A big indicator of how BAD it is
@@13MAM13 he really said that? Wow
I think they are just trying to end their tortured lives.
@@13MAM13 A clean water therapy would probably do the trick indeed.
Its usually because they are stressed from something. You will especially see this when heavy metal ions become present in the water, most commonly copper.
Chinese fish farms sell Tilapia, Catfish, and Dace to the USA. Is that fish polluted?
I used to know a family that lived by the Mekong river (it runs from China past various countries towards the sea). You couldn't walk on the sand barefoot because your skin would get rashes from the residual chemicals. Nobody swam in the water.
which country the family live? it's interesting.
@@enigma6682 Northeast Thailand, not far from Vientiane in Laos.
@@-Keith- Aye, I'm fellow Thai too although I not live near the Mekong, it's so sad that some Thai still think that China not cause any environmental impact there, or justify it.
@@enigma6682 สวัสดีครับ :) I'm actually a farang, not Thai. I just knew the family from when I visited Thailand for a month on vacation. Very friendly people there! And it is sad that there's so much pollution in southeast Asia that comes from China, especially the smoke from the factories.
Fish farming occurs using river water. Does this mean farmed fish is polluted (from China and Thailand along the Mekong River)?
I'm so disappointed in the CCP. By now, the fish of China should have the proper level of political education to stay in the filthy water out of pride for the CCP!
This is why fresh water is still the most important thing on the planet and should be protected and treated like gold and jewels are now.
Maybe that was why manufacturers moved their businesses overseas to China where has no EPA. You can’t put a price on human health vs jobs.
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This is why Canada needs to invest in military defense
Many of the problems china is having now, the west had in the 19th century. Rapid industrial development causes environmental degradation and many of the other problems china is now facing. Many of the same things happened in the uk, europe, and America but we forget about them now.
@@chuggermagic We did not become cleaner in our production, we just produce in poorer countries and let them deal with the pollution. China is looking to do the same thing.
The fish's skin and gills must be burning because of the chemical pollution in water. They jump out to stop the burning and suffocate.😞
That's what I was thinking
😪😪😪 poor creatures. What did they do wrong???
Probably. China is killing or has killed it's own rivers ecosystem. Traditionally, civilization and cities rely heavily on rivers, and if you kill or destroy these waterways, you end up collapsing your civilization. Why authoritarian governments suck; perhaps China will collapse as a civilization soon?
The fish equivalent of jumping from a burning building.
Indeed and the ppl laugh at this.. poor ppl
Maybe they should clean it up, and maybe feed the people real food not dogs ,cats ,rats and rotten pork
I know it’s very difficult, but I make very concerted efforts not to buy stuff made in China.
It's not as hard as you think....just takes a bit of searching but many products are made in less evil countries.
I find lots of things made in Vietnam, Philippines, India, Mexico... I buy American as much as possible.
Me too, particularly food, I don't want to die in 10 years just because some of the food came from China
Same thing is happening in india too but fortunately we have climate activist and many journalists exposing the dumping of chemical water in river, even though government implement the rules its still not sufficient I hope we don't become like china
Fun fact
The most polluted river in India is the one they call sacred
While the cleanest one is because they consider it cursed
You must not become like China. Stop them before they go too far.
Sadly India has beaten China with more polluted cities tho it’s an even match to a point, as far as India goss tho most people see it as a 3rd world undeveloped dump, the air is hardly clean enough to see anything it was clear as day during the Covid shut down…. Still went back to how it was tho along with everywhere else.
Can also say Indonesians are much much MUCH more stubborn & entitled & not willing to work to fix certain things as well. Very much a society issue that also needs tackled to focus on stuff being fixed.
More or less it’s a sad dump reality future that can only be seen for India verse anything else, with how China already is & India being even to worse yet still more underdeveloped how much could it truly be helped or even have a chance at being better 🤷♂️
@@mattweh I think it's an overpopulation problem. Both countries would benefit heavily if their populations were cut in at least half. There's no humane way to do that ofc but overtime as birthrates fall across the developed world we'll see a steady, natural decline.
The Ship breaking yards will make things like this happen really fast.
Note to self: Consume nothing using Chinese ingredients.
Note to self: Spend 23 hrs a day tracking down companies that don't use Chinese ingredients.
they export food?
This craziness has to come to an end
You don't have to pity the Chinese people because they love the CCP Govt. And, no need to pray for them because they don't believe in God. Chinese people believe that they are the richest country in the world, they don't need your money or donations.
Xi Thought is now a required curriculum in All school levels .
And, all religious leaders are required to chant and/or recite the CCP slogan,
学党史，颂党恩，跟党走
Learn the history of the party, praise the party, follow the party.
This is clear proof that the CCP is a cult.
…
The Truth is …
all my Chinese friends are laughing at foreigners outside of China.
So No need to pity the Chinese.
They really love the CCP
and Xi Xi Pooh
@@dongshengdi773 even the religion is controlled 😮, wow ccp is truly diabolical.
Never interrupt when your enemies make mistakes
@@kadahshajay84 If you think that's bad, look up Chinese Uyghurs. They're Muslim Chinese people with Turkish background.
@@lakojake4215 yep, that's some ww2 level shit.
Sad that greed and power caused China to ignore all the lessons industrialized countries learned decades ago when dealing with the environment.
We may be better but we have along ways to go. Monitoring agencies need to be funded without political pressure so as to get real answers.
Collective greed, and collective power though. Individual greed is often held in check by other individuals in countries that respect individual rights.
@@Bit-while_going Lol, no it isn't and you fucking know it. As if "respecting individual rights" ever saved the poor from the greed of the wealthy.
And wtf do you mean "collective greed" and "collective power"? as if anyone who isn't a part of the business or political class are somehow getting kick backs. All I see are a bunch of rich, entitled, well connected pricks doing what they do no matter what section of the earth you're looking at do; concentrate power amongst themselves at the expense of everyone else.
@@8thhousealchemist600 Not to fish species living in polluted rivers for instance.There's many local regulations about it.
@@8thhousealchemist600 every country in the west has some form of the EPA around. We monitor pollution levels, avoid dumping, strict litter laws etc. Not saying it's perfect but it's better than what China has going on right now.
And look who the democrats are partnering with
"When the Chinese government starts to address a problem," it's usually too little too late.
That's what you get with a dumbade dictator and conflicting opinions are cancelled or killed
as someone who grew up her whole life in the country side with accesible rivers and forest, that almost made me threw up. i cant imagine getting near a river that is colored black and fish actively trying to kill themselves rather than swim in that water
edit: apparently those are silver carps who do jump over water when they are threatened. are they threatened by the water? probably ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think if this happened in a Western country, the people would be up in arms and literally destroy the source of the pollution... In this case, the factories and mines, making them no longer functional or able to recover.
Asian carp do that here. You have to be careful they don’t smack you in the face while motoring through them.
@@D-B-Cooper They are jumping out because the water is burning them, the "smack you in the face" = engine boat that is scaring the shit out of them... and have nothing to do with this situation.
@@Bialy_1 fish die from pollution, these are healthy vibrant fish otherwise they would be belly up. It would take something very instantaneous like an electrical shock to set them off. Not sure what this has to do with ground water but China has had record rains for more than six months now and a lot of things have been flooded, some toxin may be flowing bye that didn’t instantly kill the fish. There are plenty of vids of Asian carp here on yt.
@@D-B-Cooper ten cent army servicemember detected
Immense thanks for this video showing what is happening for the precious groundwater in China, which is a lesson for all countries in the world more so for India since polluting industries are injecting their pollutants underground through borewells in several parts of the world.
What's so insane is that china absolutely had the power and authority to protect their environmental resources. They just didnt
Communism
@@karga9014 Corruption
@@karga9014 China is not a communist country.
@@MisterLumpkin it is a great nation and ancient civilization that is destroyed by the filth called communism
@@MisterLumpkin the ruling party in china literally has communist in its name as in ccp. Come on
In the typical communist country, somebody once said: "if you will leave communists in the desert and the sand is a high value and they can sell it, soon there will be no sand and they will be starving". In my own country, the situation was the same (during the communist regime 1948 - 1989) a lot of ecological disasters usually water was toxic.
Didn't the Soviets during Stalin's era pretty much destroyed the Aral sea? Wasn't it like the one of the world's top 5 biggest lake?
technically stupid decisions happen in all forms of government, there's no point accusing a mistake that can be made by either communist countries, capitalist countries, or whatever form its in.
@@yunhel Yeah, well I can compare communist regime and capitalist because I have a personal experience. So from my perspective, you do not know what you are talking about.
@@leonardgrant6876 but saying capitalist countries don't make environmental disasters/mistakes sounds just really irrational or outright brainwashed though, unless you can prove it, you don't know what you're talking about.
and we all have experience and history to read from, knowledge is widespread.
@@yunhel No, when I was growing up in my communist country, the environment was bad, there was a lot of smog many groundwaters were contaminated and so forward. After the communist government was put down in 1989 the environment improved a lot. Dumping grounds were cleaned however not all of them. Like I said you do not know what you talking about.
Those fish at the beginning where trying to evolve into frogs real quick lmao😂
China nearly completed a dam which will partially deplete the water of the Brahmaputra river in India which is the main water source of more than 50 million Indians.
Once a legend said that the 3rd World War will be for water. I hope not!
There are many such “legends” … I predicted it 30 years ago… its just “common sense”…
Well Brahmaputras most of the water comes from small rivers of Arunachal Pradesh but still it will be affected because of those dams and don't forget about sudden water discharge it will flood many villages in india and Bangladesh causing huge economy loss and people livelihood
@@Seminolerick india has many Allies to back it up
Pretty much the entire west will back up on India
China messed up when it started bullying all
It’s neighbors, China is turning asean into an anti China nato
China will start a war soon enough, they just need to get more desperate
28,000 rivers have disappeared? That's wild!!
damn.. those chinese stole that rivers
Who would thought that not protecting the environment could turn out to be a problem.
Maybe they should stop making weapons and spend money on cleaner energy and filtration systems but, it looks like they will learn the hard way...
Despots don’t learn… they just tech their poisons of every kind…
Or they gave up on their land and know they must move so conquest is their only recourse.
@@Imissnormal
Belt & road seems likely the plan.
If you were smart you would investigate every food product purchased to make sure its not from China. You also must make sure other food products from other countries have no Chinese ingredients like rice or wheat purchased from china
I avoid any food products coming from China when grocery shopping at the supermarket.
There's one supermarket chain where I live that sells very cheap frozen crumbed fish and frozen vegetables from China. Also, their line of canned goods from China is huge.
Polymatter did a great video about their water problem as well.
There must be something in the water that the fish are trying to get away from , a poison ??
@@TOMAS-lh4er Its generally just all the pollution seeping into groundwater as well. China has different water grades for different uses. As the video title states, it has gotten to the point its almost unsustainable.
Ground water isn't just a Chinese problem its a monstrous problem across the world.
They have extracted so much from the Southern California aquifer that its starting to suck in salt water from the ocean. Wells closer to the ocean are already starting to turn brackish. In Australia we have been tapping the Great Artesian Basin for decades without any restraint. Now we have issues with coal seem gas affecting ground water.
Try this list of stories on ground water -> th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=dw+news+ground+water
@@tonywilson4713 Im Southern Arizona the same ,large areas of farmland was bought just to pump out the ground water !1
@@TOMAS-lh4er Its going to suddenly become a worldwide major issue.
Its gonna be like that linebacker the tight end doesn't see as he goes across the middle. When the ground water issue hits its going to be massive. Crops will fail and it will be catastrophic.
People can't eat iPhones, Teslas, solar panels or COAL. Crops don't grow in oil and NOTHING on this planet breathes methane except maybe some forms of extreme bacteria.
Always seems odd when you have a country suffering from flooding and water shortage.
No it is not, the flooding was allways poluting the surface water...
The whole thing with ancient Egypt and how they were waitig for floodings for crops is similar to the method used in other places where farmers are to this day spreading animal manure on fields. You do not want to dring water from flooding, homes after flooding are not only dirty but also stinks.
it's also clicmate channge that causes flooding and water shortages at the same time.
Meh, it's just ground water. It's not like it's a natural resource necessary to sustain life.
Growing and selling vegetables you wouldn't eat yourself, now, that's the root of the problem. "I'm making money, everything else is someone else's problem."
He was a poor man trying to make ends meet - the CCCP probably will beat him up or harvest his organs if he protests
That's why I don't feel bad about the Chinese citizens. They're no different than their government.
I’d be curious to know how China’s bottled water industry purifies their marketed water and just how clean and safe for consumption it is there since so many businesses/companies take short cuts to increase their profits…
@@geor664 honestly, with the disdain of Westerners the CCP has perpetuated, it's very likely they are watching you on a tv laughing.
it's probably just tap water from another country, to them it's good enough it tastes purified
Drink distilled. Can’t trust anything else.
You know how Nestle imports water from other countries, bottles them up even when the country is facing severe water shortages and branding them saying they're better than normal water? Yeah. it's with China, with their Belt Road Intiative.
Chinese bottled water company management: 'why bother with purification, that costs money. Even if people do drink this it won't kill them until AFTER they've paid for it.'
Good. Couldn't happen to nicer people. It's just a shame that wildlife has to suffer. Hopefully this will denude China of its population.
Wow he grows vegetables to sell, but he won’t eat them himself.
If it's any comfort the vegetables he buys to eat at the market are probably grown with the same shitty water
At least he isn't doing fish farms to sell frozen fish to the western supermarkets.
Yes it's worrying...I am just thinking in the UK we have garlic from either China or Spain....definitely sticking with Spanish garlic now.
@@Lotsielots Your government don't have any import check/control of foodstuff safety into the country? Example, in Singapore, they have plenty of check/control of imported foodstuff safety and there are plenty & all kinds of China origin foodstuff on the shelves of supermarkets. So based on this channel's report, we can expect the majority of Singapore’s population to be decimated or get cancer or whatever very soon ?!
@@FloatingOer 😂
Ground water is known to be the second best fresh water for any country and most countries have prohibited of ground water usage because to reserve it in order if water shortage occurs so then could be used as emergency , but in china I don't see it happening
China has little concept of conservation. Historically, the country was considered so vast and so blessed with resources it was never thought to be a problem.
@@Sinyao yes they never thought about it that's the problem with the people and the country nothing is plenty to them once there's are finished they try to snatch things from others
@@vladimirmakarov2661 Snatching things that don't belong to them, eh? Reminds me of something the Russians are doing in Ukraine right now...
They are pumping waste water down into aquifers to get rid of toxic waste, otherwise it would have taken thousands of years for the chemicals to reach 3000 feet deep.
@@Sinyao I can't believe what I see about it is even real and that people actually live there is still filthy and dirty and toxic
To a chinese propaghandist, those fish are jumping for joy to be in china.
There is a company in Maui that is taking water away from the locals and shipping it to Japan and China, as Hawaiian that is disparaging as us locals are suffering from water shortages from hotels and the rich people taking away the precious resources.
If it's any consolation, a few bottles of spring water isn't going to save the CCP when half the rivers are filled with waste.
Sue your politicians
Get Dawg The Bounty Hunter on it. Brudduh.
@@thefix2573 He not for Hawaiian People he for himself, selfish...
@@rockymun I thought he helped in situations that were being ignored. I don't know if he's even there still but get Oprah then.
So that's why chinese is fishing for fish in other countries
..people have to start reading labels more carefully and if they aren't detailed enough then you have to do a little yourself..for instance quinoa and chia come from contaminated areas..but are supposed to be superfoods..furthermore, we get lots of ingredients from contaminated areas..not as bad as china, but it's starting to creep its way into our lives. For instance, just about everything we ingest now is full of micro plastics..there's nothing we can do about that because it's so ubiquitous that it's even in the rain..
..in fact, especially in southwest states, they get a lot of ,especially produce, from mexico..another country l Ike russia, that could care less, especially if exported, about levels of contamination..and you know all they care about is bottom line..the whole planets going too shit one way or another..whether its mining contamination, droughts, wildfires, flooding, heatwaves, supersstorms..
..permafrost melting, sea levels .
..it's all one big viscious feedback loop and nothing we can or are even trying to stop, at this juncture..
...these little campaigns are good pr boosters, but really mean nothing at all..
..one thing u can do for yourself is not consume anything with labels from places like Indonesia, china, Brazil. Basically anywhere but usa and canada..even Europe has some pretty contaminated toxic areas..now lately their trying to clean up their image such as France and Germany..but just about the rest of Europe is contaminated unkess you want 5o pay an arm and a leg..besides most European food products are extremely expensive
..I eat a lot of oatmeal beans sweet potatoes yogurt and things grown here..onions apples bananas-mostly grown here..tomatoes...
.. never anything outside of this continent and very skeptical of Mexican staples..
..products made from chiba , but food never..and fish, that's an entirely different story..basically your eating half plastic...you'll see..by 2050 major atastrophic climate..very inhospitable to human life..it already is in India. Or places like india..Indonesia. china..
"In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference." - Rachel Carson
"Destroy the source of life, you destroy life itself." -unknown
Wow.
I have read this several times and each time I understood more.
That is some deep insight Rachel Carson had.
@@joeblow1688 the origins of man is the creation from the LORD
@@maalikserebryakov lol There will both be more and less of this religious nonsense coming in the next decades
Fools, simpletons and intellectual cowards usually gravitate toward religion when times are tough
This is why I refuse to be anything made in China. I have become a label reader and if anything shows up as anything to do with China I do not buy it. Living in Thailand it makes it a little difficult but I survive. I will have a garden next year. I have 7 access to plant my crops in.
I am Chinese, thanks for making this informative video.
When I hear the insane list of issues China has I think to myself that the government there must be on the verge of falling apart all the time.
Yeah same. I wonder what the next recession will do
Don’t forget TH-cam’s feeding you multiple videos of the same type based on what you engage with. So it’s easy to think China is a complete shit hole because of that
@@richardtaylor3471 I'm strictly speaking about the government of China here, that and the massive size of its police state aparatus, the ongoing series of blunders and insane levels of corruption, the lies about the cultural genocide against the Uyghur minority etc etc, you know, the stuff that's reported everywhere regardless of bias. But yeah I'm sure there are nice parts of the country, not doubting that.
This video explains what would have happen to the US if in the 60s and 70s people hadn't protested and fought for the environment. Of course the politicians also listened somewhat. So now the Cuyahoga river doesn't catch on fire anymore, and other rivers and lakes are still safe for fishing or recreation.
Difference between disappearing for worthy protest.And actually able to help with positive change.But the world elites love quick easy money so China is never worried about doing what is right!!
Still over use of water.
This is happening to America now as politicians sell our country out from under us while we are distracted with our phones.
We're just as bad as China!
@@jeffc2630 You're saying that because either you think the situation in the US is way worse than it really is or that the situation in China is way better than it really is.
They can’t be surprised look at how bad the smog is there
In my opinion, its no wonder we get all kinds of mutative organisms from a polluted region of the world.
Holy crap, it's worse than Thames.
The Thames is the least polluted river in Europe.
I have seen the Thames when I visited London in 2016 in order to see the Queen. The pollution in the Thames appears more like mud or something along those lines. I drank the water straight from the tap and had no issues that I could notice. If it's good enough for the Queen to bathe in, it's good enough to drink!
By the way, and this may be off topic, but why does the UK have a Prime Minister AND a Queen? Is the Prime Minister only in charge of England and the Queen is in charge of the UK as a whole? And when was the last time the Queen stated "Off with his head!"?
@@charleswomack2166 no the queen is only titular she has no power though her rubber stamp is required on every law and everything is done in her name she just sits there happy to be called queen
@@charleswomack2166 although in the past the monarchy held power, nowadays they are only figureheads and have no real political power
You are poorly informed. There are 125 species of fish living in the River Thames. Try that anywhere in China !!
What you get when you divert so much water to making deserts green areas
I remember when the river in my town used to be super contaminated and black... Then all the factories shut down and now the river is crystal clear in downtown... Love the Rock River ❤️ (USA)
Probably the factories Produce in China now
And that's why you always need to be aware of politicians who complain about "big government and their damn regulations", it is 99/100 times just a complaint they can't grossly exploit human or earthly resources with no consideration to anything but profits.
This is one of many reasons why they are aggressive in claiming other territories which is under other countries. The pollution is too much in their country
FACTS
They lack resources to feed their people that's why they want all of South China sea for themselves.
So they can pollute other regions as well and end humanity as a whole.
My heart goes out for the ppl of China 🙏🏼
the citizens of china are the only ones capable for changing their situation. There will be a change.
If your front teeth grew so big that you cannot even eat any more, you will have to rip them out to stay alive. Chinese people have to stand up against their corrupt and destructive leadership
I heard about this 15 years ago when a geologist working in China told my friend that China was killing itself due to their refusal to initiate environmental changes to their industry. Huge problem because China has major rivers dammed that used to flow freely to other nations. Now those nations are having severe water shortages.
They send ships loaded with sewerage to dump in Philippines waters every day
Those fish are dying and people are just laughing.
Contamination runs deep in China in many areas.
Alot of countries r also poĺluted.
China's Global Peace Plan:
中国对外友好方策:
1. Geopolitical jousting with all of its neighbors.
2. The incursions in the South China Sea
3. The naval aggression in the Indo-Pacific
4. The border provocations in Ladakh, India.
5. The bullying acts against Taiwan.
6. The erasure of Tibetan identity
7. The repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
8. The purging of political opponents.
9. The crack down on the rich and influential.
10. The suppression of Mongolian language and culture.
11. The suppression of Religion in China; Islam , Christianity, Fa Lun Gong, and even Tibetan Buddhism.
12. Arresting Human Rights lawyers.
13. Illegal Organ Harvesting of Prisoners and Dissent.
14. Using the Belt and Road Initiative as a tool to control other countries into submission using Debt Diplomacy.
15. Using the Belt and Road Initiative as a tool to plunder other countries' natural resources and to build military bases in the guise of airports and seaports.
16. CCP Distorting UN Resolutions .
17. Revoking of Licenses of Human rights Lawyers in China .
It’s self destruction and that’s what they are doing
Tragedy of the commons. Everyone takes as much as they can before someone else does.
And in the other direction you have feudalism and homelessness when all the land is owned by a few.
Economic growth without environmental protection is very dangerous.
Rapid Industrialization without knowing limit leads to the destruction of man and nature. Literally
Welcome to modern day capitalism. No limits. No checks and balances. All in the name of greed and progress.
It equals death in the end. Nature will always win in the end.
When we get to the point when clean water becomes scarce, then modern society will collapse. Period. Nothing else matters when the most basic requirement of water is no longer available. It's the reason that past civilizations disappeared. Water.
You should look up the MIT study that was done in the 70's that predicted complete societal collapse would happen around 2040. This forgotten prediction model was reexamined in 2020 to see how accurate it has been with the model throughout the years.
Basically right on track. Maybe a little faster. Look it up. It has been covered more recently all over.
They don't even have economic growth its mostly just fakery
Bible says there will be sortage of food and resources I guess it is happening 🙏
I wonder what the fish are experiencing to act like "fuck this water, its gotta be better WHERE I CANT BREATHE"
The cities are being sprayed with chemicals to destroy the wuhan virus and the runoff after a rain ends up in the rivers. I remember watching a video last year showing all the fish around many large cities trying to jump out of the water or washing up on shore dead. People were netting the jumping fish for food. I don't know what the cities are sprayed with, maybe bleach (sodium hypochlorite), but it is toxic for fish. Just a side note, during a flood people were "fishing" for pigs from a bridge while the flood waters were carrying away livestock. They were able to snag quite a few of them. A lot of people were eating barbeque that night.
Imagine your lungs are burning from breathing in air. I would imagine that's pretty much how it would feel for the fish having god only knows what flowing across their gills. Probably burns like hell so ANYTHING would be better, air included.
The water pollution removes oxygen from the water. Causing the fish to suffocate. So they start jumping out of the water just to breathe. To get some oxygen on their gills.
I saw the photos of the cities being sprayed and I think it’s horrific. The damage done by this act will most likely exceed the benefits garnered from it. They are most likely using small sized droplets in the spray to get as much coverage as possible. This will mean that any wind will carry away the chemical being sprayed to other locations. This will almost certainly cause it to gather in the water. It feels like it was almost designed to do as much damage as possible while giving the least benefit. It is also extremely inefficient as the amounts used will be very high in concentration.
This is literally one of the most depressing thing I've ever watched :'(
I hope the locals understand that they are jumping because they can’t survive in the water supplies in which they live.
When I lived in China, I would still see people fishing in that polluted water. My buddy, who also liked to fish, said he'd go fishing and next to him, some dude was just pouring in paint in the river.
Well you gotta use a good primer coat on.. Fish?
From the looks of things and the state of China, the gearing up for war and such is to get more resources and land because the land it has is dying. Floods, locusts, air pollution and now water pollution. It might be trying to expand outwards to stop itself from dying.
Yes, that's what I'm afraid of…
only thing is that a majority of their army (funding) is being used to beat down their own people and suppress those black swans wandering around tiannamin.
@SING CHUNG LEE not so much a cancer as a rabid dog
That's communism from dying.
Oh you mean lebensraum
Thank you for covering this
Let's consider 1 billion people all using the toilet twice a day.....
Then add garbage....oils....chemicals
Too many people. Humans are worse than rats cockriaches or any vermin
If humans used composting toilets with urine collectors there would be no more industrial pollution required to make chemical fertilizer.
There was a time before industrialization when night soil was collected in cities and towns in China to take to the farms for natural fertilizer. Composted waste is safer. We have a homestead in the US where we compost human waste, goat manure, and chicken poop. It takes two years to compost safely then it is worked into the garden soil in late fall with ground cover to prepare the garden beds for spring planting.
@@GeckoHiker I know what you mean, using it as much as possible is great and natural and been apart of the process, but these days there is way too much and too many people making waste we simply couldnt use it all. And theres no way in hell farms would want the urine and poo from people living in the cities due to the heavy lifestyles people have ( fatty fatty foods, lots of additives and colouring and preservatives e numbers and the likes going into the composting system.
You want good clean human waste from healthy lifestyles. It's like horse manure. There are grades
@@TheFreshSpam I agree with you. What they did in ancient times wouldn't work so well today. It would still be a very good idea to compost poo and divert urine from human habitation and livestock operations. Current waste handling measures use too much water and contaminate it. We are looking at methane capture on our property and gasification technology for replacing oil based vehicle fuels. This is the direction we could take globally to get past fossil fuel reliance and global warming. In India they are using backyard methane capture for cooking and heating. Solar ovens are interesting to use. We want to build one into a south facing wall. Good building design could change everything for the better.
Too many humans are depraved. May God help the few good ones get through this life.
Those of us blessed with intelligence are doing our best to carve out sustainable homesteads in rural areas. We haven't felt like it was safe to eat fresh-water fish in the US for over 70 years now, due to agricultural and industrial pollution of rivers, lakes, streams, and creeks. Modern agriculture is killing us, so we produce our own food, collect and treat rainwater, practice zero-waste in every area of our lives, and refrain from buying anything without checking the provenance.
Even if one doesn't have a little land to grow most of one's food, we can grow something. In our house we have two very inexpensive "greenhouses" where we grow onions, scallions, celery, kale, spinach,collard greens, cabbage, and all the herbs. We grow carrots and turnips through the winter in a small space covered with leaves and straw. The rest of the year we grow potatoes, sunchokes, sunflowers, beans, squash, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, and all the other vegetables. And then there is the backyard flock of chickens. I've kept chickens in the center of a big city. Anything is possible if it's important enough!
Fish suffocating in the water, they flapping about as though they were out of water
Sounds a lot like early industrial revolution in the US. anybody remember the Love Canal in NY? the difference is, the US finally had to admit it and fix it unlike the chicoms likely course of action.
Yeah, the thing is that the us is polluting just as much as china, but no one wants to know about it.China and the us are the main countries that are destroying the environment. and slowly killing us.
The problem is.......the republicans have been killing off environmental protections in the USA for many years. Just look at all the damage tRump did in just four years.
@@dougmartin7129 ???
The scale of Chinese pollution is greater than the west by far..
@@ovid4 the us is known for air pollution and china for water pollution.Both are the worst on the planet.
Good luck to the people of china.
Luck is irrelevant to criminal negligence.
Desalination plants on China's coastline.!!!!¡
Shortage of ground water and yet unprecedented floods for the last 2 years.