China is planting Fields of Stones stuck to Metal Bars - No, Really

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[dwight]

And Canada still sends China close to 200 million a year so they can “ go green”, that’s a lot of green paint we’re paying for

[owenpancoast]

If China put half as much effort into covering up the destruction of their environment into finding actual solutions, the possibilities would be endless

[adrianjapan]

I live in a public apartment complex in Tokyo where the residents are responsible for taking care of the basics of the landscape and environment (we call them 団地 "Danchi") and we had problems with a chinese family in the past because everyone wanted to take turns to keep the green grass low and nice to see, while all the chinese kept b*tching it was much easier and efficient to just uproot everything and spray herbicide, making our beautiful public garden a mars wasteland so we won't have to "waste time" maintaning it. Gross!

[helenrushful]

I remember travelling through rural China in the early 2000's the road was lined with dense forest. The driver turned off and showed me that the forest only extended 100 m either side of the road, after which there was essentially desert. They had basically taken a massive grant from the world heritage fund to replant a large area of deforested land, millions of square km (or something like that), pocketed most of it and just planted the roadsides so they could drive the representatives around to see the results. Thats china folks.

[Nyerguds]

This is Alice in wonderlands levels of insanity.
We're painting the wasteland green
We're painting the wasteland green
We know it's dead
and full of lead
but nicer to be seen.

[iRoamYouTube]

" Go Green "
" Boss, we need more green paint "

[shrimpchips]

It’s heartbreaking how the documentary owner got “disappeared”. It’s even worse that I EXPECTED it.

[floridasoldat]

People painting desolate patches of barren rock green so they’ll look bright and healthy from a distance is the most poignant metaphor I can imagine for China itself 😂

[SuperReasonable]

I lived in China when the Olympic Committee were inspecting Beijing as a potential city to hold the Games. They painted all the roadsides green to give the impression that the verges were grass, not dirt! They also covered up the market places in view from the Chong an Avenue making them look like quality living accommodation. They also turned off all the factories for 2 weeks sending the workers home and we saw blue sky and mountains in the distance for the first time ever!
As soon as the Committee inspectors left, it was back to normal within a day or two!

[Unknownfriendx]

I recall hearing how, in order to increase the profit margin of simple rice, they would add small plastic beads that looked like rice grains to the actual food stuff. The disregard for even such a basic staple as rice is astonishing and disturbing.

[trob_]

painting the dirt green is actual insanity.

[ct]

This is a good example of why I warn all my family about buying anything on Amazon, specifically when it comes to makeup or any kind of product you would put on your body. You have no idea where it's come from, there are no standards, there are no rules, there are no checks on the contents. That $5 bargain you think you got could be full of arsenic or mercury and you would have no idea. My sis bought some garbage nail polish last year and her fingers swelled up. It's insane to me that our governments just allow this dangerous garbage to flood our markets.

[nevek]

A few years ago, there was a Chinese news clip about how the US was finding toys made in China contained excessive amounts of cadmium. The toy maker was questioned about the cadmium in his toys. His reply was that it wasn’t an issue because those toys were destined for the domestic market and not for export to the US. As a Chinese person, I have never been so sad.

[adrian_mordecai]

I remember in 2018 I was traveling to Southeast Asia and had to do a 5hrs lay over in Beijing and I was shocked to see the amount of air pollution even inside the airport it was like foggy inside the building and was impossible to see the other end of the terminal, after a couple of hours I started coughing and my throat was irritated and outside the visibility was 0, I don't know how planes were able to fly in those conditions. Also when I was in Laos I was in a tour and we took the slow boat through the Mekong river and there were a crazy amount of garbage bags floating around and our tour guide told us that they are a "gift" from china, it was really sad to see villagers and kids swimming in the river surrounded by garbage bags.

[dontsupportrats]

To be clear: Here in the US, there are state programs that do hydroseeding along the roads to prevent erosion. There is zero prep work and it looks just like that. They just drive along spraying.

[HLLSNGL]

Next story I'm waiting to hear is that this green paint was toxic to the environment and has made every area they sprayed into a true toxic wasteland.

[Awol]

It is not really to fool inspectors, it is to give the inspector a plausible reason to accept the bribe. "I looked, it looked okay to me".

[derekomiles]

This is scary. Why is the world falling over itself to purchase their crap?

[sleepmusic]

I love what you are doing and the risk is high but you are one of the few people in the youtube community that is 100% true, good luck man u need it.

[michaelmartin]

Specifically, the rocks on rebar is most likely trying to make it look like the location is cultivating cotton. I have lived near cotton fields in both California and Alabama, and from a distance that is exactly what it looks like. And China is claiming to be the second largest producer of cotton in the world. This just makes me wonder how much of that production is real, and how much is fake.