Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China
October 21st, 2009 by Key | Posted in News | 1,501 Comments »[QQ] October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”
Lu Guang (卢广), freelancer photographer, started as an amateur photographer in 1980. He was a factory worker, later started his own photo studio and advertising agency. August of 1993 he returned to post-graduate studies at the Central Arts and Design Academy in Beijing (now is the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University). During graduate school, he studied, traveled all over the country and carved out a career, became the “dark horse” of the photographer circle in Beijing. Skilled at social documentary photography, his insightful, creative and artistic work often focused on “social phenomena and people living at the bottom of society”, attracted the attentions of the national photography circle and the media. Many of his award winning works focused on social issues like, “gold rush in the west”, “drug girl”, “small coal pit”, “HIV village”, “the Grand Canal”, “development of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway” and so on.
1. “At the junction of Ningxia province and Inner Mongolia province, I saw a tall chimney puffing out golden smoke covering the blue sky, large tracts of the grassland have become industrial waste dumps; unbearable foul smell made people want to cough; Surging industrial sewage flowed into the Yellow River…”
- Lu Guang
2. Chemical waste from Jiangsu Taixing Chemical Industrial District (江苏泰兴化工园区) dumped on top of the Yangtze River bank. May 15, 2009
3. Fan Jai Zhuang in Anyang City, Henan province, (河南安阳市范家庄) there is only one wall separating this village from the steelmaking furnaces. The villagers live in this heavily polluted environment where the village is under the iron rain every day. March 24, 2008
4. Industrial sewage of Zhejiang Xiaoshan Industrial District (浙江萧山化工园区) eventually flowed into Qiantang River. April 24, 2009
5. Henan Anyang iron and steel plant’s (河南安阳钢铁厂) sewage flowed into Anyang River. March 25, 2008
6. Guiyu, Guangdong province, (广东省贵屿镇) rivers and reservoirs have been contaminated, the villager is washing in a seriously polluted pond. November 25, 2005
7. Shizuishan Industrial district in Ningxia province (宁夏石嘴山湖滨工业园区), the tall chimneys spitted out smoke and dust. Residents took preventive measure for the falling dust from the sky when going outside. April 22, 2006
8. In the Yellow Sea coastline, countless sewage pipes buried in the beach and even extending into the deep sea. April 28, 2008
9. In Ma’anshan, Anhui province (安徽马鞍山), along the Yangtze River there are many small-scaled Iron selection factories and plastic processing plants. Large amounts of sewage discharged into the Yangtze River June 18, 2009
10. In Inner Mongolia there were 2 “black dragons” from the Lasengmiao Power Plant (内蒙古拉僧庙发电厂) covering the nearby villages. July 26, 2005
11. Jiangsu province Changshu City Fluorine Chemical industry land sewage treatment plant (江苏省常熟市氟化学工业园污水处理厂) was responsible for collection and processing of the industrial sewage. However they did not, the sewage pipe was extended 1500 meters under the Yangtze River and releasing the sewage there. 2009 June 11
12. Soil by Yangtze River, was polluted by Anhui Province Ma’anshan Chemical Industrial District (安徽省马鞍山化工园区). June 26, 2009
13. Large amount of the industrial wastewater flowed to Yellow River from Inner Mongolia Lasengmiao Industrial District (内蒙古拉僧庙工业园区) every day. July 26, 2005
14. A Large amount of the chemical wastewater discharged into Yangtze River from Zhenjiang Titanium mill (镇江市钛粉厂) every day. Less than 1,000 meters away downstream is where the water department of Danyang City gets its water from. June 10, 2009
15. In Haimen city, Jiangsu province Chemical Industrial District sewage treatment Plant (江苏省海门市化工园区污水处理厂) discharged wastewater into Yangtze River. June 5, 2009
16. Hebei Province Shexian Tianjin Iron and steel plant (河北省涉县天津钢铁厂) is a heavily polluting company. Company scale is still growing, seriously affecting the lives of local residents. March 18, 2008
17. Longmen town in Hanchen city, Shaanxi Province (陕西省韩城市龙门镇) has large-scaled industrial development. Environment is very seriously polluted there. April 8, 2008
18. There are over 100 chemical plants in Jiangsu province coastal industry district. (江苏滨海头罾沿海化工园区) Some of them discharge wastewater into the ocean; some heavily contaminated sewage is stored in 5 “Sewage Temporary Pools”. During the 2 high tides in every month, the sewage then gets discharged into the ocean with the tides. June 20, 2008
19. Jiangxi Province Hu Ko County Chemical Industry district (江西省胡口县化工园区) is by the Yangtze River. Chemical factory landfill the Yangtze River bank to expand the scale of the factory without authorization.
20. Anhui Province Cihu Chemical Industry District (安徽省慈湖化工园区) built a underground pipe to discharge wastewater into the Yangtze River. The wastewater sometimes is black, gray, dark red, or yellow, wastewater from different chemical factories has different colors. June 18, 2009
21. Shanxi Province is the most polluted areas of China. It is also the province with the highest rate of birth defects. This loving farmer couple adopted 17 disabled children. April 15, 2009
“In Some areas of China people’s lives were threatened because of the environmental pollution. Residents suffering from all kinds of obscured diseases, the cancer villages, increase of deformed babies, these were the results of sacrificing environment and blindly seeking economical gain.”
- Lu Guang
22. Elder shepherd by the Yellow River cannot stand the smell. April 23, 2006
23. 15-year-old boy from Tianshui, Gansu Province (甘肃天水), dropped out of the school after 2nd grade, followed his parents to Heilonggui (黑龙贵) Industrial District. He earns 16 yuan a day. April 8, 2005
24. Inner Mongolia province Heilonggui (黑龙贵) Industrial District, the couple who worked at the Plaster Kiln and just got home. March 22, 2007
25. Villagers from Kang village in Linfen City, Shanxi Province (山西省临汾市下康村) due to long-term consumption of the polluted water contaminated by industrial waste, there were 50 people who have cancer and cerebral thrombosis. 64-year-old Wang Baosheng got ill since 2003, he has fester all over his body so he cannot go to bed and lying face down on the edge of the bed each day. July 10, 2005
26. Breathing in large amount of dust into the lungs, people gets sick after working there for 1-2 years. Most of these migrant workers come from area of poverty. April 10, 2005
27. Zhangqiao village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan Province (河南省舞钢市洪河边的张桥村), a 45-year-old woman Sun Xiaojun (孙晓军) could not move her feet and hands since 4 years ago. The numerous hospital treatments were not effective. April 7, 2009
28. Zhaozhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province (河南省舞钢市洪河边的赵庄村), 66-year-old Zhao Bingkun suffering from esophageal cancer since 2004, after the second surgery, treatment cost already have reached over 200,000 yuan. His condition is in late stage, he is having fever everyday, waiting for death. April 7, 2009
29. Zhaozhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province (洪河边的河南省西平县张于庄村), Gao Wanshun’s (高万顺) wife died of cancer. Now he lives in poverty. April 3, 2009
30. Linfen City in Shanxi province (山西临汾市) is seriously polluted area. Farmers after working in the cotton fields for 2 hours are filled with coal ashes. September 24 2007
31. Salt factory worker in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province (江苏连云港) said angrily, “when the wind blowing towards our side, the foul smell from the chemical factories is unbearable. There is even more poison gas at night.” July 19, 2008
32. People form Fanjiazhuang (范家庄) are ready to submit a complain filled with their fingerprints, to seek compensation for pollution damages. March 19, 2008
33. In Shanxi Province there are a lot of charitable nursing homes, to help disabled infants abandoned by their parents. April 14, 2009
34. Liujiawan village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province (河南省舞钢市洪河边的刘家湾村), 13 year old Yang Xiao in November 2008 was ill with obscure disease. She was saved by the donation of the villagers. When the grandmother saw the old village chief came to visit his granddaughter, she kneeled on the ground holding granddaughter’s hand. April 19, 2009
35. The oldest is 9, not going to school. The youngest is less than 2 years old. They lived in severely polluted area. They hands and faces were always dirty. April 10, 2005
36. Mazhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province, (河南省舞钢市洪河边的马庄村) 58-year-old Ma Haipeng (马海朋) was suffering from stomach cancer since 2006 and could not work in the field. He must take medicine every day, otherwise it is too painful. April 6, 2009
37. Every year, a lot of deficiency babies in Shanxi Province were abandoned. Kong Zhenlan (孔贞兰) in Qi town (祁县) who was making a living by recycling trash adopted 25 abandoned children. April 14, 2009
38. Xuanwei (宣威) in Yunnan province is a cancer village. Every year there are more than 20 people die of cancer. 11-year-old student Xu Li (徐丽) is suffering from bone cancer. May 8, 2007
39. In Shexian Village, Hebei Province, (河北省涉县固新村) the existing cancer patients are more than 50 people and more than 20 cancer patients die each year. March 18, 2008
40. Zhangyuzhuan village by the Hong River in Xiping county, Henan province, (河南省西平县洪河边的张于庄村) 22-year-old Zhu Xiaoyan (朱小燕) had a tumor in her stomach in 2007. She died after number of hospital treatments on July 2008. 4-year-old girl with her grandfather came to mother’s tomb. April 2009 2
original source: Fengniao
Followup: Interview with Lu Guang, the photographer of “Pollution in China”
Tags: Art, Lu Guang, Photos, Pollution, Pollution in China
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안타까운 중국의 현실 A miserable condition of China….
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Apocalyptic reality !
Hope that will wakes up awareness of anyone , particularly those who has the
power of decision, to look much closer into this reality !
Great shots of Great Photographer !
OMG!!! That make me sick. I feel grive ,so that is the reason we should take care of everything on the earth. In China it’s only a part of the fact of the world’s present that display to you all were known, there are a lot of thing which hidden at the back of the scene………….. it awares everyone who look at your Photograh to wake up now.
GREAT SHOTS.
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In a way it is true that other countries help cause pollution in China, but this is mainly because the West refuses to help China avoid this. We hypocritically exempt China from the Kyoto Treaty and in our diplomatic relations with that country, refuse to demand that they clean their environment. Yet, recently, the US, the EU and Mexico lodged a formal complaint before the WTO demanding that China send them more of the raw materials, such as aluminum, coke and fluorspar, that cause this pollution in China !
Kyoto was all about cutting c02(not a pollutant) emissions wasn’t it? not stopping polluting factories.
The way to improve life on the planet is to assist it to prosper, and for each country to allow its citizens influence its government. The wealthier nations have less pollution because they can afford to clean up the environment & develope new technologies.
Buy chinese goods so they can become wealthier. Help them understand democracy and assist them to work towards it. Co2 is not pollution – its plant food and will make plants grow quicker. Kyoto & Climate change agreements are useless. Climate change is natural and cyclical. Visit China & consume its goods is part of the solution
You’re crazy. China REFUSES to change. Communist countries ALWAYS pollute to the max. They don’t give a damn about the peasants, just the money! Ignoramous, don’t you remember the vast pollution discovered in Poland, Romania, East Germany and the Soviet Union on the collapse of the Soviet Empire?
What a clown you are.
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The pictures are dokumentation on at chinese industrial “development” which not is based on traditional chinese thinking ” I Ching ” book of changes, Kungfutse and Tao.
China has not learned from the capitalistic western countries bad experiences from appriximately 1850 to 1945.
Therefore we need a green economy and produktion with co2 netral emission and no polition, based on solar,wind and sea erngy etc. not on coal,oil and gas.
We all have to take care of the planet. Mother earth.
This is model of capitalism system. Is very, very good.
The same thing happened in the USSR under socialism. It is greed, which is a human trait.
China is a Communist country…
…that has adapted to capitalistic economic system.
Capitalism is by definition economic freedom under the impartial application of universal law. China does not have it.
This is what happens to human beings when they are owned by the state. Get ready America…Model of Capitalism? What a idiot! The citizens of the US have judicial recourse, they can sue industries and governments that do these things to the environment and to people. These poor souls do not have that option under communism. I would challenge anyone to compare the environments of western nations to that of China, the old Soviet Union, North Korea and any other communist country and compare the differences, the results are obvious.
This is totally apalling! The Chinese government is pathetic, to allow such gross violation of human rights.
A large number of companies must have international investors which would never dream of doing such atroceties in their countries.
Absolutely shameful what is happening to the people and the environment.
The Chinese government is outrageous, and a joke to the rest of the world.
Simply impose a 50% tax on all Chinese products untill the Chinese government respects
environmental standards.
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Holy Shit!!!
Chinese are very strange people, I had a few experience living out there with them, really crazy mind, super pollution in every area, every sector.. no more comments..
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Yep! And the English are sending their rubbish to China because they issued laws which prohibit to burn it in England not to pollute the air! This is not only sick but hypocritical as hell!!! Responsibility begins at home!!! So let´s not judge the Chinese, let´s help them and ourselves! The 1st step is to consume less and press the producers not to create a lot of packaging!
You consume less Alex. Not me.
I am all about consumption to the max. Emissions reduction, responsible employers, and health care provision are a responsibility of the Chinese government and the businesses they support via taxes. Mao would have made short work of these folks. Simply turn them into fertilizer. Our & their corrupt practices of waste(including gas steams) mangement are to blame. Not consumption. That is a privilage. So you go eat rice my friend. Reduce responsibly and pray for war. R/bildousa
Seriously? How does England send it to China? Where did you see this?
STFU Crabbait you anti-american POS
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Fuckin government. If the people of China can’t do anything to defend themselves for the government then someone has to help them not through war but through a boycott of the services China sells that cause all that pollution. Only the invisible hand of economics can decide what stays and what goes and we the people have the power to influence that invisible hand not the government.
The only way to make a statement is to stop buying Chinese made product, even though a lot of items are made in China. There are products that are locally made no matter where you are in the world, we just have to find it. I have an office chair factory in Canada and I purchase everything in Canada that I can. My competitors spend most of their money in China, which isn’t as good quality wise, but the costs are incredibly less!
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The Requisite Posion Toy Scare…
Of course it’s the Zhu Zhu "pets"….
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You ass hole don’t use photo shop can’t you ?
I would like to invite Lu Guang to present his fotoseries on my website, but I don’t have an email-adress from him; if someone has the Mail-Adress from Lu Guang please mail it to me : info@fotogemeinschaft.de
Thanks Ralf
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No problem lets simply put big tarrifs on all chinese products until they clean up their act.
this is fascism and capitalism unitet in one country
China is a Communist country.
yeah with a capitalist economy you retard
Capitalist economies are concerned about the efficiency of their production methods. While China may have embraced SOME of the concepts of capitalism, this kind of waste and destruction of the environment is a result of the mindlessness of communist insistence on quotas.
That is a retarded statement. Quotas?
Most of those Polluted business who are so greedy
to make profits and they bribe the local officials so
they can break the environmental lawas and still
make huge PROFITS.
Learn some history. there was NO industrial pollution
when China was communist. The pollution didn’t come
until China adopt market economy and foreign investment!
Learn some history yourself. When did China give up communism? They only adopted some capialist models when Hong Kong reverted bck to mainland Chinese control.
China’s economy is run by their government. No matter how many mental gymnastics you perform, it is not a capitalist economy–it’s the same communist dictatorship that slaughtered 64 million of its own civilians in the Great Leap Forward.
Retard.
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this is really sad.
this is really sad……one way we are destroying our mother earth through terrorism and the other silent way is this poluution…..its wake up call for us…..start caring from today onwards….
this is really sad……one way we are destroying our mother earth through terrorism and the other silent way is this poluution…..its wake up call for us…..start caring from today onwards..
And these idiot asshole alarmists in Copenhagen want the Western nations to reduce thier economies to combat pollution??? Go fuck yourselves, you hypocrites.
umm how is terrorism destorying the earth ??? petrol companies ect are doing it worss bye not letting water or power run cars alowd cos thay will ose to much $$$ from not selling enuff oil… thay are the terriousts in a way. usa is the most disonist conturie in the world… make up shit and control the media ect… thies big groops who control the main nasisites eg oil ect… should be shut down and others let be do wot thay want to do eg water run cars ect….. china is grose and i hope a plage or some think wipes them out to stop all the crap thay are doing. eg thies pix ^^^^…. i thinks we need to wipe out a large number of the populashion. wot would in return slow the poluting shit happening. blah blah blah,,,, better off working to gether rather than compeating against each other.. be a lot better world. get rid of thies big farmasuacal companys and big oil pepole goverments ect who are corrupt, eg usa uk ect….. need to do some think pepole are to $ greedy $ is not needed as much as the banks have made it …. need to be free from this fucked up world how its run bye a cople of retards who are to fucking greedy and power full… kill them all i say.. especliy that gorgebush cunt hes the bigest bull shitter ever… blow ur own contrie up and blam it on some one els then go to war to steal there oil wtf… who the fuck dose that… bit fucking rude …. in a way the west is the colprits of the world… god save us … if there is one lol
You my friend are what was referred to as useless eater 60 years ago. Find solutions. Not ignorance. God exsists for sure. But he can not hear you. Be reverant and prosper.
Hey bildo, go easy on him… he can’t be any more than 10 years old…. but he’s going to be quite the asshole when he grows up unles he sorts himself out…
oh year money is det…… u get taxed to earn a dollar, u get taxed to spend a dollar.. next purson gets taxd when thay get it and so on. its a neva ending bull shit cycle what needs to be changed… who gave the banks power thay control us all, as long as we need money to live wot we dont … barta/ grow ur own food, hunt ur own meat. catch ur own fish… but no we are to lazy, who let this happen ???? money/ the banks / goverment.. to control us like fish in a tank…. nice one world … i reckon we need to stand and fight thies goverment and run things how it should be run, eg no money / some sort of system to help each other not ripe each other off …
what are wars ova ??? power $$$ relidgens.. all fucking pointless crap what should be avoided…. who needs billions of dollars ???? fucking stupied how thies cutns have set the system up/ we are fucked … new world order is going to happen and we can not stop it.. comon astorid wipe us out so we dont fuck this rear planet more than we need to be for its to late to save it due to some greedy mother fucking retards who dont give afucking shit about the rest of us who we all have the same responceabillatie to look afta each other and the land we live on.. hope some think fucked up happens to the super powers of this world…. to greedy …. gl hf all….. we just fucking it for the rest of the pepole to come afta us cos we are to greedy .. .$$$ is the evil….. :E hahahaha rant from hell lol.
Please label this art work “Breathing Taking, Literally”
breathtaking, literally
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Anithing is permited for the progress of a few… gush this is horrible, worst then dantestic.
I knew that China had very serious pollution problems but this pictures have left me stoned and hardly without words.
I can’t figure what should be the real difference between a genocide and the people who tolerates, supports and finances those industries, even part of the foult should fall over us, that we buy consumer goods like nuts without even thinking about the consequences it has som thousand miles from our home. This is as bad as what we have seen in Rwanda, Congo, and many parts of the world, probably even worst because no one will ever know how many people will die thanks to the long exposure to these polluted areas. A death that takes years to take place, that destroys animal and human flesh from the inside out, And wat’s worst, this genocide my last for generations since pollution penetrates the soil, the see’s, the air, and all the living beings, lasting there for centuries.
As a fellow photographer I have to say that the pictures are magnificent and hope that they will serve for giving some conciousness to this blind world.
Best regards,
Mikel
There’s free-trade for ya… China’s nothing but a butch of mistrusting pigs!!!
We gave all our jobs and the future of country for that. THANKS HILLARY AND
BILL. Or should we call Hillary, Miss 6 year Walmart board of director Hilly.
I hope the whole country turns into a toxic waste dump!!!!
While I share your anger, remember the Chinese people are the ones suffering under these dicksnots. No need to wish destruction on them for simply being slaves.
Idiot…
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Amazing, yet heart-wrenching photos. It goes to show what is happening behind China’s recent global market surge. Hopefully photo-essays such as Lu Guang’s “Pollution in China” will promote debate, discussion, and sanctions on nations that put the lives of its inhabitants and their environment in peril in the name of progress.
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i’m so glad i wasn’t born there…
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If I went looking, would I be able to take similar pictures in North America? Europe? We should all be more respectful of our environment and consider where the products we buy come from.
No. You would not find photo opportunities like this in the USA or Europe, because you will find countries here, not communist dictatorships.
Merci beaucoup !!
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Blame it on the rich and powerful, colonialism and exploitation… and now the forces of globalisation and consumerism. Realities ( of communism) have shown us that equality and shared poverty doesn’t help, neither the ‘borrowed & unreal’ power of the “You’re either with us or against us” doctrine. Human nature as it has always been, born good but selfish and some bad, will continue being so. When long suppressed/deprived nations find themselves able to rise to claim their share hitherto enjoyed only by the mighty and rich, it’s not easy to do so in a way that satifies all. Can someone truly point to a better way for China? It must be right, in China, to “let some get rich first”. I expect China will also contribute more, relatively, than the developed West, towards the cause of the Copenhagen Summit. Thanks to the timely photos. But don’t take China as they represent. Doing so would not be fair.
Well folks this is what a communist/socialist government does…..when the US guvmint takes over the oil and nat. gas industries they will drill in your backyard and you won’t say sh!t about it….It’s amazing how left wing lunatics can try to blame China’s pollution on the US citizens…LOLOL…..I’ve come to one conclusion, if you are a left winger you are either a socialist/communist with full knowledge of the outcome of this form of guvmint or you are a blithering idiot…either way you are danderous to yourself and all of mankind….please get a clue before it’s too late…..
[...] vi också gjort är att flytta den smutsiga produktionen till Asien, vilket i många fall orsakat enorm miljöförstöring. Istället ”producerar” vi administration och service. Inte heller detta kan växa utan [...]
De que adianta levar os detritos para serem queimados em outro pais……..o planeta é um só, tanto faz queimar aqui ou acolá…. como vai parar esta miséria toda? Será que ainda tem volta? Eu já não acredito. Em Copenhagen continuam brigando para ver quem vai pagar a conta…… Os paises emergentes querem o direito de continuar poluindo, já que os paises desenvolvidos já tiveram esse direito,,,,quanta estupidez! A China exporta tanta porcaria sem qualidade, não deveriamos comprar… o fim do planeta, ou o fim do mundo está próximo.
Vamos rezar…
Это абсолютно чудовищно! Настоящая преисподня на нашей Земле. Кто-то в этом мире рожден для того, чтобы страдать, чтобы мы здесь были счастливы. Прекратите рожать!
I must say we need to spread the word only this is what we can do sitting infront of our computers.
Its terrible
it seems the end of this world
but wait a minute….i changed my lightbulbs and drive a prius ! you mean to tell me that that won’t ’save the planet’ ?? //
Nope. Especially not driving a Prius. Each Prius needs a kilo of neodymium and 10 kilos of Lanthanium. If you want to see how we get that stuff, check the photos again.
[...] Pollution in China [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7uONz0oU2Y
Environmentalists = enemy of humanity an earth.
Yep, Im gonna run out and buy a smart car just like AL GORE said. YA RIGHT!!
[...] Lu Guang (卢广), freelancer photographer Jump to Comments Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China. [...]
[...] http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/ [...]
it’s funny to read all the hypocritical comments from the Americans here. Especially since most of the goods from China end up in the US. So demanding the cheapest goods for purchase in Walmart (the seventh largest trading entity for China, ahead of many nations on this planet) the US is directly linked to this mess. It’s like US slavery. The idea that “I didn’t know” the goods were made by slaves doesn’t cut it.
Additionally the hypocrisy of the US on pollution is documented. They are a non signatory to the Kyoto Agreement.
(Australia ratified the Kyoto Protocol on 3 December 2007, which came into effect at the end of March 2008. The most notable non-party to the (Kyoto) Protocol is the United States, which is a party to UNFCCC and was responsible for 36.1% of the 1990 emission levels of Annex I countries.)
If the US can’t sign Kyoto, what about the contamination from copper mines in Montana or the endless fires and acidification of rivers by coal mines in PA or Appalacia? Three Mile Island nuclear disaster and contamination.. the list goes on. Ignorant country.
It’s not just Walmart… Have a look at the labels on the things you buy… A few years ago, I attempted a personal boycott of all Chinese goods. I found it to be an extremely expensive venture, and I learned a lot about just how much stuff we get from China.
And it’s not just US. The whole developed world, including Europe, has big responsibilities. It seems those who have the power don’t have sons, or they simply don’t care about this disaster.
Nevertheless if they will not manage to agree on a strong new protocol then they will have to live in the same polluted world we all live.
We are a non-signatory to the Kyoto Agreement because the Kyoto Agreement is absolute crap that will do no good and plenty of harm.
–what about the contamination from copper mines in Montana or the endless fires and acidification of rivers by coal mines in PA or Appalacia? Three Mile Island nuclear disaster and contamination.. the list goes on.–
And, like the items you quoted, most of the items in this list are completely fictional. If you’re actually trying to equate the USA’s environmental record with that of communist China, your hatred has fully replaced any capacity for reason you might have had.
Good constructive comments Jan, Steve and Daniel. No comment “The Redneck”.
The western world is the demand that keeps this overwhelming situation occurring and increasing.
To try and put it simply, if we are the demand, then we can demand better conditions if we are committed to what “sacrifices” that journey entails. Personally, i don’t see modifying how we live as a sacrifice, i see it as being aware/mindful/responsible for how we live (which makes me happy) but unfortunately a lot of people will and do see it as an unfair sacrifice.
It’s time the success of a civilisation was measured not by economic growth, but how they balance the economy, the environment and the social community.
[...] countries have been berating the U.S. for its energy consumption and emissions. Anyone seen this photodocumentary of pollution in China? Why has the table turned to us bribing them to not be as bad as we are? Wasn’t China [...]
But think of all the money we save each year buying made in China products at Walmart.
This needs to stop.
[...] migh wanna look how china is going down… EPIC FAIL [...]
[...] wereldwijd verantwoordelijk zijn voor de productie van afval en de uitstoot van levensbedreigende rotzooi, en dat daar iets aan moet veranderen, snapt iedereen. Dat die problematiek geannexeerd is door [...]
[...] elites run the country, the barbarism inflicted on the population or the deaths caused by the headlong dash for industrialisation. [Warning, the pictures are rather [...]
[...] http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/ [...]
[...] to this site to view other pictures of the devastating pollution in China; and the worst part you cannot really [...]
I can not stand these,It is really make people sad and also let us think about something,just like “world”"peace”
[...] A set of photos from a photojournalist in China showing the extent and effects of pollution there. This is partly [...]
They are eugenicists of course they will poison people.
I truly is complete and utter insanity the way we treat our world and those who inhabit it. We desperately need to move towards alternative, cleaner forms of energy production and spend appropriate funds on ‘best-practice’ disposal – that which minimises at all costs environmental harm. It’s obscene that this pollution is not dealt with in better ways because it reduces bottom-line profit. It’s a world which – at present and at this rate – is due to die – it’s completely unsustainable. If one believes in Mother Earth – ‘Gaia’ – as an entity – she’s sick from a cancer such as many of those unfortunate souls in these photos – although not just in China – but all around the world.
I share your realistic understanding and views but am not as pessimistic of the future.
[...] carbonica sostanza pericolosa. Le condizioni produttive in Cina sono spaventevoli, come ha documentato recentemente il fotografo Lu Guang con il suo reportage da Linfen, e la combinazione di corruzione e repressione che caratterizzano [...]
Yep and they have the gall to do that with the climate change.
China doesn’t plan for the future at all, they just rape the mean term for all it’s worth with absolutely no thought of what the consequences maybe or the final outcome.
Consequence is not a word that translates to Chinese.
Disgusting.