A moving picture set detailing some of the pollution in China thanks to rapid growth and massive scale industrialisation.
Shepard by the yellow river can't stand the pollution smell.
Villager in Guangdong province washes in polluted water.
Wroking in heavy dust, migrant workers invariably start to have health problems after 1-2 years.
See here for some explanations of the pictures, original source is from here.
Some other equally scary pictures from China (originally from here):
Man collecting dead fish in Guanqiao Lake in central China's Hubei province.
Migrant workers sort through industrial and household waste in Beijing.
I’ve posted in the past about the idea that China may solve global warming (kinda) because of the pressures such massive growth puts on it, but as I mentioned (at length): it is paying a hell of a price currently. Let’s hope with that comes the ability to clean-up the vast unliveable areas (and soon!).
Some truly disturbing images. I’m not sure where you found those but below is a link to some more shocking images of China’s pollution and the health problems it’s causing some children.
http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/
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wow…. these pictures are moving. I want to say everything is going to be ok and that things are going to work but after seeing all of these i realised that things aren;t going to woek out unless we help them.
it is so heart breaking to see these people living like this. If anyone has any ideas or ways to help please let me know and I will do my best to get in touch with you and try as much as I can to help