Americans, take a deep breath of clean air. This one time, we did not make the top 10
Yes the list is out. The Blacksmith Institute’s list of the worst places to breathe in
World’s Worst
Polluted Places 2007
- Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
- Linfen, China
- Tianying, China
- Sukinda, India
- Vapi, India
- La Oroya, Peru
- Dzerzhinsk, Russia
- Norilsk, Russia
- Chernobyl, Ukraine
- Kabwe, Zambia
First place - Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
most polluted place on earthWe may not be able to pronounce it, but it has the top spot of being “The most polluted place on the planet”,
Who needs air when they have synthetic rubber, chlorine, aluminium, detergents, and pesticides. While the factories remained fully operational, 70-120,000 tons of harmful emissions were released into the air annually. With the emphasis placed on maximum, low-cost production at the expense of environmental and occupational health and safety, industry has left the city heavily contaminated.
Their prize for such a “green” way of life is… A high percentage of babies are born premature, stillborn, and with genetic defects like downs syndrome, anencephaly, spina bifida, hydrocephalus, bone disease, and mutations such as club feet, cleft palate, and additional digits. Plus a 50% higher cancer rate yhen the norm.
way to go Sumgayit
In second place we have
Second Place - Linfen, China
where is is no such thing as a kid with a clean face due to the thier large coal usage
China, they take third place as well
Taking 4th and 5th place we have India
Where you two can get a clean sip of brownish water. And all this time I thought it was only Mexico we couldn’t drink the water in… silly me.
Number six La Oroya, Peru
The Andes are known for a few things blue skies and extreme lead content
most polluted places andes perubut, look at this.
The polluting mines are currently owned by the Missouri-based Doe Run Corporation, the plant has been largely responsible for the dangerously high lead levels found in children’s blood.
I guess the state of Missouri did not want the the shit in its back yard,
so… the American way is, to send our problems somewhere else!
Number Seven and Eight go to the same country Russia, The town names, no one can pronounce, Dzerzhinsk and Norilsk
Type of Pollutants: Chemicals and toxic byproducts, including Sarin, VX gas, etc. Also lead, phenols. Source of Pollution: Cold War-era chemical weapons manufacturing
where 300,000 tons of chemical waste were improperly disposed between 1930 and 1998 and 190 identified chemicals have been released into the groundwater. (I would drink lots of Vodka also with that type of water)
Guess they are still suffering the cold war effects over there in Dzerzhinsk and Norilsk
Coming in at number Nine, Chernobyl
the picture says is all
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nuclear disaster aftermath and pollutionNumber Ten Zambia
and yes, the name says it all… if you breathe, you may end up a zombie at that from all the lead.
So, one more time, Americans, take a breath of clean air and remember your country fights for a clean environment… mostly by shipping its pollution elsewhere, but hey… that is the American way!
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Godofredo Arauzo on October 25th, 2008 at 10:00 pm #
POLLUTION TO THE OROYA CITY PERÚ
The years 2006 and 2007 the Blacksmith Institute have accomplished a research about the cities more contaminated to the world and arrived to the conclusion that the Oroya City was between the 10 cities more polluted of the world and the environment, Graffiti 2008 is between more pollute too to the world and the 2008 Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland say that Oroya is between the most polluted of the world. This qualification are benevolents; according to my researchs to many years that I am publishing, the Oroya is the more polluted to Peru, Latin America and of the world and every day is being more polluted: lead in blood in children in the Ancient Oroya in average 53.7 ug/dl ( DIGESA 1999); pregnancies women 39.49 ig/dl ( UNES 2000), new borns children 19.06 ug/dl, puerperal 319 ug/100 grams/placenta ( Castro 2003) and workers 50 ig/dl ( Doe Run 2003). Top lead in blood accepted 10 ug/dl; present day is 0 ug/dl ( Pediatric of Academy to USA)
When the Oroya city was in hands to the CentroMin eliminated only by the upper chimney to 167.500 meters, in average by day in tons: sulfur dioxide 1000, lead 2500, arsenic 2500, cadmium, particulate matter 50 and so on, more 24,000 to toxis gas product to the incomplete combustion of the coal, without count it is eliminated by industrial incinerator y by the 97 smalls chimneys, it is estimated 15,000; overall 45,000 tons fot day (PAMA . El Complejo Metalúrgico de la Oroya, 1996); other research say that by this chimney only eliminate overall 119¨917,440 tons too every day to a velocity to 8.7 meters by second ( Chuquimantari C. Yauli-La Oroya Minería y Ciudades Empresas Pág. 57, 1992)
Doe Run envoy every three months the concentrations of the heavy metals to the Ministry to the Energy and Mines and with the sames datums Ceverstav have demostrated the pollution was increased; for example the sulfur dioxide it have increased in near to 300 %, by increment to the production (Cederstav. La Oroya no Espera 2002
The American Association to the Environment say that the environmental quality to the Oroya it is serious deteriorated since that Doe Run was owner and the same enterprise
declared that the concentrations of the heavy metals gas it is ncreased in the air: lead 1160 %, cadmium 1990 % and arsenic 6006 % (Portugal, et al. Los Humos de Doe Run 2003)
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