HomerSimpson-Man
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Yeah, you could, but thousands of rotting pigs in a river near a city of 23 million won't be one of them.
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China's water pollution in pictures.
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Yeah, you could, but thousands of rotting pigs in a river near a city of 23 million won't be one of them.
Lonewolf_92
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Feel free, couldn't hurt to see what it's like elsewhere.
Adam Blade
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China is already taking steps to correct this. They have passed laws here and there recently and surely are trying better.
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pants
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Flotation devices? Why? He could probably just walk on this water
Rentahamster
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The polluted waters kill a lot of fish, which make American fish look much more delicious. I had a thread about it here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=466983
You can see more terrible pics of polluted Chinese water at the Atlantic link in the OP.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=466983
You can see more terrible pics of polluted Chinese water at the Atlantic link in the OP.
Yeah, some of those pictures are actually kinda beautiful with the colors.
whatsinaname
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Everytime I see these pictures, it makes me feel a little bit guilty. I know that we as consumers are a part of this exploitation. We have exported pollution from one corner of the globe to another.
Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that China is a polluted mess. Going out in Beijing during the summer was disgusting when I went there. The smog and pollution was suffocating, and the contrast between a normal day versus what it was like after rain was alarming (also knowing all that shit just rained down on you didn't help). The US isn't perfect, but it's a huge difference in terms of environmental regulations.
pants
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FO-totality
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I would probably vomit in the river and it would probably get cleaner
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Who the fuck enjoys just chilling in a monster blob of algae.
NaughtyCalibur
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If I ever had any interest in going to China, it has completely diminished now.
Holy fuck on a pogo stick.
Holy fuck on a pogo stick.
pants
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Rentahamster
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Those are just the worst cases, though. The entire country isn't a sludge wasteland.
fizzelopeguss
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And i thought blackpool was a dump...
NekoFever
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Yes. The Thames used to be so bad that they couldn't hold Parliament next to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught on fire in the 60s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River#Environmental_concerns
You can pogo on one of their rivers.
SiteSeer
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i've seen worse off the shoulder on an interstate. trash like that is everywhere not just china.
"We have no other source of water and no voice with which to change government policy, so we either do this or die anyway"?
I went to Guangdong last year and every time I was close to some river, I was nearly vomitting. The smell was just so horrible, quite similar to the smell of water treatment plants. The colour was brownish/greenish.
I was a bit shocked by the lack of awareness on pollution/cleanliness anyway. I mean, it's normal to spit on the ground both inside and outside apparently. Still, the waiting room in the Shenzhen train station was one of the most dirty places I've seen. People just leave their rubbish wherever they want to, not caring about others or nature.
I was a bit shocked by the lack of awareness on pollution/cleanliness anyway. I mean, it's normal to spit on the ground both inside and outside apparently. Still, the waiting room in the Shenzhen train station was one of the most dirty places I've seen. People just leave their rubbish wherever they want to, not caring about others or nature.
grandjedi6
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uh, no. Our stuff is no way near as bad anymore. And most of our pollution issues are invisible to the eye nowadays (which is its own set of problems)
Depends on who you refer to. The owners, the workers, the people who live nearby, the various levels of government probably all think very differently about the situation.
More Fun To Compute
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Worse. I live in an industrial region in England and there was so much pollution that people rarely saw the sun. Rickets and stunted growth were common. Many people were deaf or had hearing problems due to constant noise. Waste and chemicals were dumped in the open. Still new building works are relatively dangerous because of the danger of subsidence due to centuries of mine works across the region.
Do you consider lake Erie setting fire from chemicals in the water bad?
The amount of rotting pigs found in China's rivers has now reached 16,000:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/29/dead-pigs-china-water-supply
I feel sorry for the people who has that as their water source.
It is the water supply for Shanghai :/
They also found dead ducks bagged and chucked in a river in Sichuan province
Also, here is a series of photos where the Yangtze River turns red in Chongqing, China. I found this a while back.
Dubbedinenglish
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It took a few to wrap my head around that. Holy shit.
RukusProvider
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Would not be shocked to see a super virus or bacteria to come out of there that would wipe out billions.
Dragoon En Regalia
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This is some fucking Kurosawa-style pollution-paint shit going on here. Stop ChinaI wanna get off!
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