without saying it loud as it stands, what it means. no say like good everyone to ok. so to be cheering into the microphone, sorry. check out the award winning talk. com. don't hold back. the re not to have a logic is waging a battle against authorities who do nothing in the face of an imminent environmental catastrophe. here at the sight of a former chemical and arguments, factory toxic water threatens to flow into poland to be still the river and destroyed the ecosystem for the activist. it's a grueling fight. what is that the cost is supposed to come, you'd pay a very high price for what i to go. so it means a lot of hassle, not just for my private life, but overall, you know,

she would cushion stuckey. but maybe there needs to be someone who points out that what's happening here is not right lucian. yeah. and you talked in the history of poland and also of the world. we have always been people who were pioneers, let each of them who were able to change every thing of our people to push as me know. the notion of was, is that the side of the former as often chemical plant, if it goes during the 2nd world war, germany produced explosives and gun powder here. then from 1948 on it was run by polish authorities. c later, the plant added chemical production,

the for decades, toxic substances steep unimpeded into the soil, contaminating the ground water. the reason is the this is one of those many areas on the side of the former plant. nearby was the pain department. today the social welfare office is just about 300 to 400 meters from here. hold them. my mothers with their children and many other residents go there. for you have a little of i read, i was one label. there is a very toxic substance. i'm going to show the photos of the labels to come as a business so they can determine what it is. so yes, let's open up of the next them. nobody does anything. it doesn't seem to matter to them. even the environmental agency ignores the needs of the saw him was

a company the size of a city it had 20 kilometers of roads, 70 kilometers of train tracks. even its own train station, the, there was a hospital stores canteens, a cinema. in 2015. everything was shut down, the renate of logic grew up nearby. as a child, she was constantly sick. her illnesses were likely triggered by industrial fuel. for 6 years now, she's been fighting to get this toxic waste land decontaminated. she writes letters

to politicians, dress petitions files complaints with the police, and spreads the word on facebook so far in vain. no one in a society has shown serious concerns. on the contrary, renada of logic has been harassed for drawing attention to the authorities, failures the. she's received death threats on facebook and her car was vandalized. the the 45 year old is a trained to gerontology test who could be taken care of elderly people. she previously taught nurses therapists and caregivers how to look after seniors or

ever since she started advocating for the environment. she's been unemployed, she says her job applications are rejected. she's regarded as a trouble maker. now the single mother of a teenage daughter makes ends meet by preserving and selling fruits and vegetables . the probably will be sure to be on the interest exactly. and the fruit season i make preserves as more uh, mazda is like, my mother used to use 90 percent of the preserving jars in the basement or from her mom's home. since i have no income and don't earn anything else from this is very good for us. to call to the community. yes, we have our own stocks and it's cheaper. a ranada of logic

lives in her parents house with her daughter, a dog, and cats in wing over a village right next to the former plant. the former premises obsession occupies a huge area. more than 7000 people worked here strictly separated from the outside world. the in recent years, logistics and distribution halls have been built next to dilapidated production buildings. new businesses have settled here the

june douglas. yeah, sure. most of them are the ones you are not sure if logic is meeting with former plant workers and you will only be able to play, you not want to give their names out of fear of repercussions when i village you work. i sell them for long or 30 years total at the plans. the teen at zach them directly came in for us for lunch. nice me, i'll send you 40 years. so just the last renate of was it wants to know about working conditions of the plan. how safe was it? the weather ever? any accidents on the job one of these men also worked with a dangerous chemical called on a lien at the plant. it impacted his health. never been one time i had to replace the gasket in one of the buildings and inhaled some on the line off to it. someone looked at me and said, go to the doctor immediately. my lips and in the said already 10 blue. i was

admitted to the hospital in state for 8 days. i wasn't allowed to leave the bad ones when i went to the toilet and scolded me my you are and was black and also is, are you still in contact with your colleagues from the unaligned department today? i don't know why there's these people on to in the as well so you can usually died. no, probably most days are looking for somebody nearby. but there's room and i'm lucky to have work best so long. you told me that goes on, did a lot of toxic chemicals get into the sort of thing there gives me about for, by the soil. and i don't show much any to know it does how there's a lot of, you know, it depended on the number of accidents. when there were accidents, everything went into the air into the ground, and we couldn't dispose of it fast enough. gas went into the air and liquid into the ground. now we're facing the consequences. nature absorbed it and now wants to

clean itself. we must tell that unless you can, i should get the to know how polluted the plant site is and they say that the soil should be replaced and the site decontaminated. so why is nothing being done? there's no money for this because in reality, no one's interested. sweep it under the rug, don't talk about it. that's how it works. take a look around because there's a lot of green array implants. everything's beautiful and what conclusions are drawn from that? and if it were really poison, nothing would grow the perception that these are feature that russian, but not the case. as my colleagues said, there's no will to change things and get us. the money is often spent on causes that could wait or less important. so people need to get involved and we shouldn't give up a to says on, gosh, i don't know, probably it's about what to say the,

this woman is willing to talk to us on the condition of anonymity. she also lives in wing. all right, next to the former factory site, she and her family are living with the effects of the pollution here does not to put them is the what i and way go, but i thought we suffer from cancer. and while you got that to go see your brother died as lung cancer found you, my father is bone and throat cancer. got it all is because uh some of our neighbors also have kids. he either to water cancer and breast cancer. oh, it does not just assume use at this point of view, i was recently diagnosed with a 5 right to march mom. not as you know, the smoke or not. and you know,

the more people small at the moment. but no one knows how it will develop. it's what come, i mean if i'm those, but i've not, i've, i've been at the same vision you've had the same. i have a daughter with a disability. she has genetic damage and yet no one knows why there's most of the successful cash. so that's, i'm fixing you. well, i also had a miscarriage of some bullet gloves this a bit. and you know, we often have headaches and burning eyes just on their travel. stopped on them, but as soon as we return, we get headaches. again, i see been there, i start to bury the russians like you some these are the some of the of the is was, is just because, i mean if i'm not positive ownership, it's effects of, you know, she, it's all just swept under the rock with gym everything is done to prevent this massive problem from coming to life talk is they're trying to keep it a secret and ensure people don't talk about it too much. i'm just back after school

just use the going from. it's the to say, think, i think we're going to, what's this my boat paper source that's the, you know, scientists, money your job and don't talk to the from the h e h university of science and technology and crack of our friends, a ranada of why the money is chuck has been researching environmental pollution, caused by chemical substances for more than a decade with because he's one of those published several scientific studies doesn't grow don't talk to you. i think it's from good gosh.

she wrote her dissertation on this topic. then the scientist had been appealing to politicians for years. we, we've made it clear that the site must be secured, but nothing's happened for years eve of pollutants are sleeping into the ground. it's sad that so much time passes between damage assessment and dispose of the whole thing. and so by the supervisor, the scientist is investigations showing urgent need for action because also stands 6 to the incentive just seems, you know, be the ceiling. all of these substances, especially paula, cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in organic flooring compounds are mutagenic, and carson a genic, they can either directly cause cancer or increase the likelihood of cancer. they can destroy genetic material which leads to congenital diseases. oh i guess so, but was about to go to the middle. don't money use chop fears that if nothing is

done, the contaminated water will seep into the ground water. and then into the vist, your palding's most important river lies just a few kilometers from the city of good gosh, right next to the former plant side. the i'm all of those days of this that goes, but of it is a pleasant assume you still farm, you know, one who says that, that under our feet there are huge quantities of chemical substances, oregon. you know know, danica endodontic focused and they all talk sick. so what i could even close come so it's kind of they also dangerous because they can move as a long distance. the other question beneath the surface safety, these toxic substances, the traveling several kilometer to, oh, my directly to the, to the good i need to is i q this. what is that? what's the, what's the bottom of the book with us? the only solution to address this would be to put a 6 are complicates over a different concept. so it was still up to the point of on those we propose the 7 years ago practice. they should then we'll have to demo. i'll cover everything with

the layer of the concrete, what i'm down to an impermeable layer in the bedrock and suddenly go for the was out for the people that didn't secure the whole thing kindly from above so that nothing can penetrate is still up to the go to the doctor, only give us thing if it were settled. there are water sampling points at various places on the former industrial side of the scientists can take samples of ground water from a depth of 14 meters. the water is black and foul smelling, the back of all the this water would burn all the plan. you obviously scalar seen that brought a bottle of coca cola for comparison. that's

. that's the fundamental, physical, heaviest, expedited shape them. usually some of the physical chemical parameters that we've measure today indicate that the concentration of thought into contamination. dis, bosa is 3 times higher than the default because the color, the color i'm smell indicates that it's um, safe, stable. there's no oxygen in its position or other organisms couldn't survive it. i couldn't but yes, so stand you from feeling that was stuck in violation of every school. most of the most or just the question is that he's allowed to get a case should you contact with this monitor can cause an allergic reaction or a skin rash. and sometimes it can irritate the skin. if you rub your eyes or it gets to the mucous membranes, it would not be healthy is that the water damage is the skin soft tissue for the eyes of no nimble, but those over right next to the water sampling point. an older man is collecting mushrooms, doesn't it bother him that they are growing uncontaminated land? now you have in your mouth. well,

there aren't any warning signs. if they were assigned that red thing just mind, no one will go to the sign your apology. yeah i am the item, my wife eats the my children to move key this idyllic pond can be found and were not of was ex hometown not far from the vist dealer river, but a few inches are deceptive. the water from the side of the former as often chemical and arguments factory has found its way to this place. some. so they're all good. you've got the key terminates of ground water is flowing into this pullman's to suggest that it's a rate and a slot to i'm the vis jeanette is right nearby the contaminated rules to penetrate some of the stuff is in this area. how much is it?

who is the scaling from the, of your scale, right? so the level of this, if you have this, the thing is that all of these, there are 2 possibilities. ends up in that 1st the decay of organic substances in the water, which leads to oxygen deficiency. and the fish suffocating things, or a chemical contamination leads to the death of a whole system. the ecosystem of much of $72.00 is the system of poland. most crucial waterway is largely unregulated. so far, the vigil river has been spared sockets, toxic legacy. but for how much longer the 3rd is a tributary of the fistula, and flows through nearby did ghost poland, 8 largest city is home to about 350000 residents. the fact that an environmental catastrophe is looming, nearby seems to be of little concern here. the

shape gosh quarter on overseas, the environmental agency in the gosh, he's well aware of the danger, but doesn't consider it an urgent matter that he believes that contaminated water will take a few years to reach the vista that was on the is us in the cause of a pomeranian province, so it was working and ex, but groups were phones, though they consider it's an important topic. now, let's just keep the good. i mean, i agree to mazda plan is needed as acronyms form assigned to the end. but suppose on the suppose on this was most, i will, most of today's mazda plan, or any general plan of action of the complex investigations and needed learned from

joe on my membership. and those haven't been carried down yet to this. yes. to you have it going on? no, he said his agency has no knowledge of cancer cases among residents of wing novel, which is directly adjacent to dot com. it'll be small. it's on that is a comfortable can i go to, we've conducted a health risk analysis for the residents, so with no valid loan and there's no increased risk that the in the area we started is put this on. this of course, is the city does not have enough money to conduct them all complex survey of the residents of the village uses a buzz that'll basically to would prove or disprove. on this, the cynthia, diesel is upsets, are stuck into zone. however, the city's health risk analysis states 90 percent of the residents studied have abnormal blood cell counts more than half reported cancer cases in their families. traces of previous chemical production are everywhere on the former grams of stuff

. and this extensive area is freely accessible. the funeral, a dangerous chemical and irritant, was produced in this building as a result of its toxicity. this part of the factory was already closed out in 1989. the who the valasics battle often feels futile. the cause of them shit balls. yeah, there's a chance for getting there. now they do everything they can to make my life more

difficult to. i keep hearing made up stories about being a former director who'd been fired from the environmental agency, forbade me from speaking out about the whole issue with that because of the one he took off the top of a job as a customer. when i asked her why, she said that something could happen, jace your case, you put them, got to go home over me as we spoke the. how much longer can the activist take it the, the new literally as a class doesn't put supper on the table for my child, yet though it won't get me a pension in the future. i'm unemployed and i know that soon i could become homeless full. so i believe in what i'm doing, but what do i get out of people congratulating me and putting me on the back? we need real support. if i don't get it, i'll give up is i know,

or you may not have wise x hometown of wing nozzle plots of land or up for sale. feeling a decline in market value. many here, one to avoid bad publicity about the neighboring factory side. the a few weeks ago, she found 2 of her kittens dead in the garden. the 1st family history is closely linked to this often chemical and arguments plan. her father worked there and she grew up very close to the factory. she felt the effects of that at an early age.

the, you're all digits go, hold on the pizza kind of moved as a child. i was often ill with lung infection. stobel stapo in childhood, in elementary school. i got sick a lot and you're poor the the jump. the goal was just to me, i need to go by the age of 10. i'd had pneumonia several times on a permanent respiratory problem. nicole gets committed to call your parents to me. um i had ulcers and boyles to show you. would you be in a room today? i know that this was probably caused by contact with chemical simple still just it . uh we oh, i am now 45 years old and have the body and illnesses of a pensioners vehicle so new old or, or not of why that relishes the rare occasions she gets to go to this cafe with her daughter. today they have something to celebrate. the 14 year old one a gold medal,

a polish youth championships. to the capital of them. i would be a bad mother if i didn't fight for a clean environment for my child. a uses, however, it is not easy, right? let's do the summit that every day i see how people around me are bribed or discouraged so that they stop actively fighting for a clean environment. shackleton's new, okay. in other words, look, fighting for the health and life. a lot of other people have so much emotion to your home show that he's got to be picking up is the easiest, but i have nothing that can be taken away from me. my need to go back except for my life me and the life of my daughter goes on moines, which is a can way would it's gonna be the

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