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45 Shocking Photos Showing How Bad Pollution In China Has Become
China has some stunningly beautiful natural landscapes, but they may not count for much when, in other parts of the country, pollution runs totally unchecked. These shocking photos show what severe pollution people have to deal with in some parts of China.
Beijing and other parts of China have already become notorious for their incessant clouds of smog, which present very real health risks to anyone not wearing dust masks. Unregulated dumping in various rivers throughout China is fairly common, as many of the photos in this series help illustrate.
Chinese leaders have vowed to get serious on air pollution, but change will be difficult in a country whose industry has expanded so rapidly. If you have any photos illustrating these difficulties, please add them to this list.
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Fake Hong Kong Skyline For Tourists
Fishermen Row A Boat In The Algae-filled Chaohu Lake In Hefei, Anhui Province
Girl Walks Through Smog In Beijing, Where Small-Particle Pollution Is 40 Times Over International Safety Standard
Child Drinks Water From Stream In Fuyuan County, Yunnan Province
Boy Swims In Algae-filled Water, Qingdao, Shandong
No, but polluting stuff as nitrate helps algae bloom, which uses the oxygen in the water, which kills the fish
Journalist Takes A Sample Of Red Polluted Water From The Jianhe River
Dye from a local plant changes the colour frequently. http://www.ibtimes.com/chinas-river-blood-jian-turns-red-after-chemical-dump-photos-70
Worker Cleans Away Dead Fish At A Lake In Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province
Labourer Tries To Clean Up Oil From Water, Dalian, Liaoning
Workers Try To Drain Sewage Water From Leaking Sewage Tank, Shanghang, Fujian
Boy Tries To Avoid Scattered Rubbish Floating On A Flooded Street In Shantou, Guangdong Province
This is the aftermath of a natural disaster that killed hundreds. Rather shameful to have this posted here.
Pollution From A Factory In Yutian, 100km East Of Beijing
Workers Clean Up Floating Garbage On The Yangtze Rive
Dead Fish In Water Filled With Blueish Algae, East Lake, Wuhan
Woman Collects Plastic Bottles Near River Polluted By Reddish Dye
probably all of our christmas decorations... http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2014/dec/19/santas-real-worksh
Man Walks By Pipe Discharging Waste Water Into Yangtze River
Great Wall Of China, Shame.
Ow, wow! At first I thought "Hmm, looks like some of the ruins in my country..." but then I saw this pile of bottles.... Shame...
Heavily Polluted River In Jiaxing, Zhejiang
Child Jumps Over Trash At A Village, Jiaxing
Gruselige Fotos - sicher ein Ergebnis der boomenden Wirtschaft und billigen Preise in China :(
Fisherman Fills His Palms With Water From The Algae-filled Chaohu Lake In Hefei
Fisherman Covered In Algae, Chaohu Lake
Woman Walks On Bridge Over Polluted River, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province
our debt as well, because of the stupid unreasonable consumer behavior of all industrial countries, and there people have to suffer
Girl And Her Father Collect Water From Puddle At Dried-up Reservoir, Baofeng County
Fishermen Collecting Fish In A Polluted Canal, Beijing
These photos of China pollution is very shocking & very sad indeed!! We are traveling for the first time to China in June. will take masks!!
Workers Collect Dead Fish At A Park In Shenzhen, Guangdong Province
A Street Dog Naps Amoungst The Garbage - Northern China.
Over 3000 Dead Pigs Fished Out Of Huangpu River
The Price Of Rapid Industrialization - Western China's Xinjiang Province
Workers Clean Up Leaked Oil After An Oil Pipeline Explosion, Qingdao, Shandong
Fishermen Clean Up Oil At Oil Spill Near Dalian Port, Liaoning Province
Smog In Beijing
https://www.inkstonenews.com/china/new-study-puts-annual-cost-chinas-air-pollution-38-million-and-11-million-deaths/article/2166591 A million deaths: the annual price of China’s dirty air
Fishermen Brave Heavy Smog Over A Natural Beauty Spot - Jixian, Tianjin.
Great Wall Of China, Call It "great"?
Smog Particles Mix With Fog And Settle At Ground Level In An Early Morning Freeze - Tianjin.
Heavily Polluted River
Pollution In Beijing From The Seventeenth Floor
If you feel strongly about it perhaps look at where the things you buy were made. Dollar stores may be cheap, but at the cost of our planet.
Exactly!!!! Just because China is on the opposite side of the world, doesn't mean we haven't contributed to this in some way shape or form!
Are you serious? Open your eyes, these pictures are of China! America is not perfect but 1000 times cleaner!
Are you kidding me? Pictures of China polluting, nothing this bad in the USA. I think you must be brainwashed to hate America!
Are you kidding me? Stop blaming America for the rest of the worlds stupid mistakes. You are brainwashed by the America haters!
Earth is gonna be fine, it is our lives that are at stake because of this. If this continues, WE are gonna be the cause of our own demise.
Us and millions of innocent species. Second hand smoke...
Literally everything I buy now has a 'Made in China' label on it. I try to buy local but apart from food produce it's damn near impossible...
They should have regulations about spills and polluting...afterall china is economically strong enough to create jobs to clean and take care of the environment. That or stop the greed and stop producing so much trash
It's not just dollar stores. It's every store. It's every consumer decision you make. Seriously, educate yourself. Look at the label on everything you buy. Where is it from? YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. I AM THE PROBLEM. WE ARE THE PROBLEM.
Nobody force them to produce things like pigs. It is their own choice to take over economy by using slavery, and cheap processes.
Luck? Lucky? We're part of the problem. We buy 'Made in China' but do nothing to help with the cleanup the products produce!!
Noone can help China exept the Chinese, you know. What keeps 'em from cleaning their own wastes?
What keeps your own country from cleaning up the waste? Why are the Appalachian Mountains blown apart? Why are Gulf Coast towns dying of cancer from the BP oil spill? Why are people being poisoned by their water near fracking wells? Why are agricultural workers and farmers dying from tumors linked to pesticides? Why do poor, disenfranchised towns get run-off from livestock farms and chemical plants? What exactly are YOU doing to stop them? What are ANY OF YOU doing to stop it? Go to Target today? Buy your birthday dress at Forever 21? Shop at Wal-mart? Eat meat? Fill-up your gas tank? Live in the suburbs? Buy bottled water? Your contributions are endless to the degradation of the planet and human civilization. We are committing collective suicide and no one can see it out of blind ignorance, arrogance, greed, lust, pride, and sloth. For a Christian nation, no empire has ever been so self-serving, indulgent, and Godless.
Why does the rest of the world need to put regulations on China? Why can't they do that themselves like almost all other countries have?
Is your username intended to be ironic?
why the west dose not want to sell the hight environmental technology to china, in fact , the Chinese want to buy for decades .
They are now a super rich economy, and they should clean up this mess. We in the west can't fix everyones elses problems, we can't even fix
the WEST BUILD THEIR FACTORIES IN CHINA where raw materials a& labor is cheap & then the WEST sells it to the world HIGH PRICED, ex:iphone
you are so smart
they are. the government is working really really hard to minimise the pollution. it's the factories' fault.
Why would we help with the cleanup? We bought the products BECAUSE they produced them cheaply, otherwise we would have kept the jobs at home
Oh Earth, what have they done to you...:'(
we*
absolutely we. all of us.
why we? it depends, I never throw litter because I already know the results to be obtained later
You have also harmed our planet. All of us have!
Not as much as China!
Earth is 4.5 billion. We are just a mere parentheses in it's story. We are doing this to ourselves.
If you feel strongly about it perhaps look at where the things you buy were made. Dollar stores may be cheap, but at the cost of our planet.
Exactly!!!! Just because China is on the opposite side of the world, doesn't mean we haven't contributed to this in some way shape or form!
Are you serious? Open your eyes, these pictures are of China! America is not perfect but 1000 times cleaner!
Are you kidding me? Pictures of China polluting, nothing this bad in the USA. I think you must be brainwashed to hate America!
Are you kidding me? Stop blaming America for the rest of the worlds stupid mistakes. You are brainwashed by the America haters!
Earth is gonna be fine, it is our lives that are at stake because of this. If this continues, WE are gonna be the cause of our own demise.
Us and millions of innocent species. Second hand smoke...