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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...:'(
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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.
I think the CEO's of the companies responsible for this pollution should the ones in the muck cleaning!
They are primarily state owned enterprises, probably also explains the crackdown on Chinese environmentalists who speak out about pollution.
I live on the St. Croix River, Minnesota and I wig out if I see as much as a cig butt or a can on the shore. Those poor children.
We are a virus that infects nature,antidote genocide problem solved
What the fuck is wrong with us? We're destroing our planet, ourselves ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm87aIuNTL8
The planet will recover, once we have killed enough plants and animals and die ourselves.
OMG!!! Shame on China! Posted with iPhone Lol
Absolutely horrible!!! Stay away from "made in China"
How lucky we are to live in Australia. What can we do to help them?
Don't buy from China until they change their environmental regulations.
You are kidding me! Australia has the dirtiest power generation in the world. It's just that Aussie is so big that you don't notice!
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Buy American!!!
Well that's not very environmentally friendly.
I think this website has a bad name
This is pretty racist. I think I could find some equally damning photos of other countries.
we, must help. but there has to be some part of china, that is not this bad
I try to NOT purchase articles made in China! It is difficult, but it can be done.BUY AMERICAN!
this is horrilble that child swimming that nasty water china really needs to do something about that
I've been in Beijing 18 days on last October, The air was blue and some days it was impossible to breathe. It was a nightmare to me
Massive consumption. Don't buy what u don't need. That's how you can help the world. Sorry if I don't speek my mind. Not enough characters.
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I think it is a total disaster, a hopeless situation and thanks to communism boys and girls. But stay away from there.
I wanted to go to china one day .... NEVER
Just go to your nearest Walmart or most supermarkets and see where the majority, if not all of the fish sold at that store are from. I use to like fish but I refuse to purchase it anymore. Even Walmart labels will read Wild Caught in USA, but the next line will Product of China, Processed in China. I can't imagine China people fishing in USA waters. Also pass on any garlic products unless they are labeled grown, packed and distributed from California. If not, your garlic was planted in contaminated ground and spiced with human waste. This is just 2 of the many contaminated foods sold in the USA. 0112171320...302a2d.jpg
Actually I could,n give a f.. about Chinas pollution problem. The are killing any animal species for making so called medicines. They are one of the most cruelest nations in the world towards animals. Maybe if all those abusers would choke to death we would be better off. Unfortunalty we are stuck with these subhumans because everything is made there. Pollution ... they donèt care , 90% of their foods are laden with heavy metals. And their corrupt government does not give a SHIT about its population. There are absolutlty no norms for the evironment just like India. Big nations of producers but bigger destroyers.I will never visit there country even if they have a f...n wall thats 1 million years old.
The system there is complicated and incredibly corrupt. It would take a God-given natural disaster to change everything and it's getting worse and worse. There are articles available if one chooses to read them on understanding their incredibly complicated communist (so called free) government system. They are on the verge of collapse in a few years and we are not free of the impact of that.
That is how our world will become if we don't do something about it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8joNjIJzcQ&list=UUJZF9xiNZG_jkk5S6Q4dQsw =;.=[;=[;
All Chinese anywhere in this world would stand on a table and with the snap of a finger by their president to jump, the earth will shake.
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The main fault lies with the Chinese government. They want to build at all cost, even the cost of destruction.
That must be one of the most depressing images I have seen in a while. What a way to enliven a Saturday night.
I think,they are World Criminals..making money,by killing our common Home - Earth..I do boycott all products,made in China..
It's like this almost everywhere. Google pollution photos from all over the world. You will find them.
pena, asco y vergüenza
This is terrible. This must be stopped now.The fault isn't only of citizens, but of corruption and government ( who wants only money).
*polluting but one giant firm can pay xxxxx$ and wont even feel it missing from their budget.
http://www.jiesworld.com/international_corporations_in_china.htm
Imo, China just lost control over this many (and more) factories, when pollution is done you cant retrieve it, i guess they have law against
http://www.jiesworld.com/international_corporations_in_china.htm
What's wrong with these people!?! Why are they tolerating such filth? Can't they see this crap, and realize that it's not good for them?
All of us are responsible for this. Everything is mass produced and cheap. Stop buying made in china read your labels and understand them.
Newly elected Republican leadership want to rid America of the EPA. Not long ago that USA walked same path as China. Beware the CORPORATION!
Newly elected Republican leadership want to rid America of the EPA. Not long ago USA walked same path as China. Beware the CORPORATION!
I lived in Beijing in 1979/80. There was no pollution to speak of - air or water. I travelled a lot. It is sad to see what they have done.
Now it's time to manufacture products from these wastes.
Just beautiful.
Absolutely appalling, the result of a drive for economic improvement in a country whose govt is unaccountable and wholly undemocratic .....
well china is bigger thn the entire europe so i presume that this is a low price to pay for the services that provide to the WW economy...
hey china is fucked....but we can steel buy a lot of good things i don't see any problem here
Sigh.
We also give people here incentives to have multiple children and people are the reason for pollution
We should stop trading with China & manufacture here at home instead we celebrate that China agrees to cap omissions by 2030 & make trade de
The Chinese are disgusting! This is why we need to stop them from moving and taking over other parts of the world and doing the same thing!
nope, I'll stay in America, thank you. Even though I am Chinese.
I'm sorry but if the people cared they would clean up after them self's. We didn't go to the country and this the trash every where.
This is not okay. But of course no one cares enough to regulate and do what they need to, to make this stop.
NorthAmerica & China are geographic neighbors with juxtaposing air pressure climates if you look at the way the earth rotates.
I can't believe what we are doing to our own homes and environment this proves how stupid we actually are. It's sad.
Half life 3é
My parents live in Korea... very near China.... OMG....
Just shows how effective Communism is at cleaning up the planet and making peoples lives better
We don't deserve to live on this planet!
I'm not talking about the industrial pollution, because it's the responsability of higher authorities, but being tidy doesn't need money.
China is allowed (by Kyoto) to burn all those waste and turn it into energy. Regardless to the huge industrial demand, they could use bins.
hmm..maybe thats why theyre desperately claiming other countries' territory :/
I have been thinking the benefit of my country not having those factories - from philippines
A whole re-education system needs to take place in China regarding re-cycling & looking after the environment.
Corporate Greed is the main reason.
Time to do like movie" I robot" to save the world
It make me sick how people survived this pollution place. Wow I'm very fortunate to live in America.
Diffucult tog ett money. https://m.facebook.com/groups/253945969895?view=info&ref=m_notif¬if_t=group_activity
Fu*c chiness, they are so self-centered
fu*c chinedd, they are so selfish
It´s a sad and terrifying state. The Chinese Authorities must take action without delay to purify the environment and modernize industry.
Its the cost of consumer culture. Buying cheap china made products is to blame, essentiallu american made pollution in china.
Now instead of standing around pointing fingers at each other . . . let's get in and fix it aye?!?!?!?
So quick to blame someone else. If China had half a brain they would have provided for this issue a long time ago. Now look! Chinas fault!
China should have accomodated for the huge impact that would be bought about by consumer demand instead of just worrying about profits. wtf!
What can we do to protect this world to be good place to live for our next generations?
Yes! What can we do to help this world? What can we do to preserve good place to live for our next generations?
i feel sad
So sad. Why, why why? Where are the leaders?
Sad
Didn't ur parents teach yous 2 clean up before u leave th house. U march right back & clean that mess! Then mayb u can stay at m8s place!
We are a deadly vrus for nature,antidote is genocide proble solved
And how lucky we are to live in Sloven