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Pollution to Protest



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China’s rapid economic growth has stunned the world, making it a global power in a short span of years. It has also produced a staggering amount of environmental damage, which the world is also beginning to note. But it has also done something else—spurred ordinary Chinese citizens to start organizing, sometimes in defiance of the government. In the process, they’ve created the beginnings of a civil society that could bring greater freedom overall inside the world’s largest dictatorship.
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23 responses // Pollution to Protest

  • It's good to see Zhang Jingjing getting more coverage, how old is the footage from Liangqiao?
    quattro
  • such a fresh perspective on the environmental situation in china! where do you get funding to complete projects such as this one?
    moelac
  • Excellent as usual - well done. China is where Britain was 150 years ago and we are still cleaning up the scars. Ironically the site of the 2012 Olympics in London is an old industrial site that is having to be detoxed before building can start.
    I am taking an old PC to the waste recycling site this week - I wonder where it will end up. It might be safer in a landfill!
    renardargent
  • Thank you so much for doing this. It was excellent in showing the environmental devastation of China which was so shocking to see even though I have been reading about this for the past few years. It is good to see people standing up for environmental justice. It may just be what leads China to Democracy.
    JanforGore
  • Great documentary! Thanks you Two and Production Crew!
    stopnoise
  • Very good documentary. It's just sad that China's progress is at the expense of polluting it's own country and it's people. I hope this documentary will open the eyes of the Chinese government and take some initiative and not from outside pressure to fix the problem.
    MrBigShot21
  • Wow, this is a really done piece. It is a very responsible documentary.
    Aligirl
  • I walk by Green Citizen every day on my way to work. They collect and pick up e-waste in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley, then recycle all they can and safely dispose of the rest. I'm sure are other resources like them around the U.S. and the world. Organizations like this help to keep our tech toys out of developing countries where it does more harm than good.

    http://greencitizen.com/
    ajcowley
  • Ajcowley, Thanks for the link, Good Info!
    stopnoise
  • There's something exciting (yeah? nah?) in seeing problems like this coming up in a place that's very much still laying down foundations for what is still a totally modifiable infrastructure, and all at a time when such enormous advances are being made every day all over the world in eco-friendly processes that would do so much to turn China's pollution problems around.

    There's so much we know how to do, and there's so much here that needs to be done, and so much that *can* be done! Let's do it let's do it let's do it! While these economic, etc. systems are in this stage of such quick growth, while so many things are still at the ground level-- what a perfect time to set it up to be done right.

    And the best way to have it done right? Just like in the vid-- the people have the power to bring the change. If you have other countries poking around in your business, trying to tell you what to do-- even if they're right, it's easy to resist because it's an outside force. But when the local populace is who's pushing for the change-- that's awesome! That's perfect! And the fact that the Chinese media is talking more openly about this right now is so encouraging.

    I'm definitely embedding this video in my blog-- fantastic footage, great coverage of what's going on. Very even-handed, forward thinking and positive in a responsible, well-informed way. This is awesome, Ms. Ling. Thank you to you and everyone else who put this video together. Very informative. Great stuff.
    behnnie
  • It seams that with China it is the proverbial one step forward and two steps back in relation to the industrial progress and safety.
    UWAZell
  • This is a great news story to watch just in time for the Olympics.
    tecohen
  • Great doco.
    Paul_Flynn
  • You are one brave lady, Laura. Thanks for this eye opening documentary and others.
    tomofnorthcal
  • Great job and quite risky, keep it up!
    mundosanto
  • hard to see such mutual destruction, they need access to information to change .
    gentjim
  • I don't know how to feel about the pollution situation in China. They are going through their Industrial Revolution just like America did. Is it wrong for us to stop their country's development? The same development that ultimately lead to us having a stronger economy, power in the world, a higher living standard and other great benefits? It just seems like they're repeating American history. I'm waiting for the unions to start emerging. It would've been great if they did it on clean energy.
    Black329
  • eveyone should see this pod
    teddy14
  • The level of paranoia in China, born of fear, must be staggering.
    The "NGO's" represented in Part Three were a real mindblower.
    Brave work, you two.
    huntre
  • I really enjoyed watching this so it got the point across. Great style and soundtrack.
    MakaiOhana
  • Great work, well done. You don't see this kind of reporting on the main TV stations.
    Very impressive and important!
    danballuff
  • Great job
    pigmonkey
  • Excellent documentary, good job! thank you very much for this information, people needs to be aware of whats going on in our world that is affecting everyone of us.
    lialex22

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