Smog city

VBS.TV have just released another in their video documentary series "toxic". Their latest is "Toxic Linfen: China, the worlds most polluted city." While discussions of the at times an almost non existent blue sky over parts of China, as it's residents inhale ridiculous levels of Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Dioxide, etc, are nothing new, the world's media has been reporting on this for some time now. Toxic Linfen, approaches the issue in it's own way, offering an in-depth study, a somewhat bleak look at one Chinese city, one of the top twenty most polluted cities in the world (Linfen) and the effect it's reliance on coal is having on it's residents and the surrounding environment. Also explored in Toxic Linfen is the health of the Chinese nationalized coal industry and China's efforts on Beijing.

Ah Crap

What we're doing to the planet, it became all the more apparent and alarming watching Four Corners last night. If there's a vodcast, video I strongly suggest you watch it. Don't come at me with it's all part of a natural cycle b/s. Predictions spoken on here include no Arctic ice by 2030, the extinction of Polar Bears, horrendous levels of previously contained greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere, more severe storms, earthquakes, droughts, cyclones, tornadoes, fighting each other for the worlds resources. Future looks great, huh?

Excuses are easy. Talking is easy. Doing something is much harder.

Toxic: Garbage Island - Part 1

VBS.TV accompanied the crew of a research vessel on a mission to check out the extent of damage that a patch of garbage (equivalent to the size of Texas), floating around for years in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (nicknamed, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch), has caused to the surrounding environment.

This is part one of their findings.