Toxic Linfen - China

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Linfen, located at the heart of the Shanxi Province, is one of the mining centres that have been central to China's rapid economic growth. It is an endless landscape of factories and smoking towers, which is constantly emptied by thousands of trucks, taking its coal to the rest of China's cities. Linfen, as Ailun Yang from Greenpeace China points out, is the dark side of China's economic miracle. "There's something fundamentally wrong with the economic model. That's why the more the economy grows, the more the environment starts to get worse." Not only is the air toxic, but the water is so polluted that many towns in the area have become so-called 'Cancer Towns'. "Many illnesses are common to this area: pesticide exposure, high blood pressure, heart disease, lung problems..." But for the 4 million inhabitants of Linfen, it was only 20 years ago that their city was nicknamed 'The fruit and flower town of Shanxi Province'.The environmental impact of coal exploitation has destroyed the environment and with no way back the people of Linfen are paying a high price for China's economic progress.

January 2012

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[Nairuulagch]

90% of all rivers in china are polluted that relates to yearly over 1 million cancer death there.

[cuijing1645]

i am living in linfen ,china .... sad about this video,this video is a little exaggerating but true.

[sitevicentealmeida]

O problema é terrivel ninguem deve respirar a China precisa urgentemente reduzir a polução, investir em fatores alternativos, senão em breve teremos mais uma raça extinta

[imjsutthatguy]

@ESAMMEX LOL your right either way you look at it China is a 2nd world country as in Communist and is now a 2nd world country as in Living conditions and economy etc. LOL people use that 1st world term to loosely anymore.

[TheBrolit]

@MsMHAP Ignoramus.

[ESAMMEX]

@MsMHAP I'm a white American.

[MsMHAP]

@ESAMMEX calling names? what a childish boy... Insult? where? Just showed evidence of Chinese foreign policy and a sad even in China about a Chinese toddler.. Why u so mad? truth hurts? :D Mr Chinese.

[ESAMMEX]

@MsMHAP You fucking dumbass, third world country isn't an insult. China has never been a third world country nor will it ever be. It doesn't have to do with being poor or a bad place to live, it's just part of how the world was split up into alliances during WWII. That's what it means, look up shit before saying stuff that makes you look like an idiot. Btw, Chinese people were just as horrified by that video of the girl as we Americans were. This sort of stuff happens everywhere.

[MsMHAP]

@GuanYu89 oh yeah Im not even American or European but oh US did it and Chinese can do it even worse? Grow up. :D

[MsMHAP]

@ESAMMEX China might be classified as a second world.. but the Chinese communist party and the average Chinese behaves like third world shit hole.. want ant example? SUPPORTING THE NORTH KOREAN ARMY WHILE MILLIONS OF NORTH KOREAN CHILDREN STARVE TO DEATH, SUPPORTING GENOCIDE IN SUDAN, NOT HELPING A DYING TODDLER WHO WAS RUN OVER 2 TRUCKS (YUE YUE). GO READ.