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my name is daniel lomborg i'm a filmmaker and he's as being my most challenging personal film really thinks that if there is it's going to be because that affects both ways not just us best off a stump in india and possibly even south asia. the story of ordinary people fighting a global industry that's been getting away with mass murder i mean this 3 protected by powerful politicians and a doll starts my small village in belgium. i had a wonderful childhood disagreeing paradise just opposite my home there's a big company. at. takes

a turn it. thousands of people who work there. my father worked there too as a union man. i worked in the factory during the holidays so i could buy my 1st camera. it takes at the need for houses food and my studies it brought a lot of prosperity to families in the region this was the unquestioned reality of my you'd. one day more than 50 years later an indian lawyer comes to my village. errantly at the exhibits are neat as a dark and hidden history buried in india. you run a factory in another country and you don't tell these people that it's unsafe you don't provide any of the safety equipment you dump asbestos like this and then you

leave. as a huge rise in the use of asbestos in india in around 10982008 increases a lot softly and that's because between 1980 and around 2004 i think as best as became found and in europe. it takes its own needs is a company that made us bestest brother us as best as is a mineral that can be mined like coal and young and specialise is made of 5 or one fiber of its best it's actually contains millions of small fibers which cannot be seen with a naked eye not even through an ordinary microscope only was caught. in the early fifty's as best as fiber mixed with cement was considered a miracle product that was meant to last for eternity. in the home front we are fortune. that in our industry in that it's best us and cement constitute what i

call a perfect match i think. this miracle brother was used in the houses schools public buildings. even the european commission building in brussels was a bag full of as best as products it became a booming business making the owners of at the expense of meat the ems and family one of the richest in belgium. in 1964 scientific research by american dr selek off proved that as best as was lethal. as a union met my father knew about the scientific proof he did his best to warn the workers but many of his galaxies became sick. inhaling as best as fibers can cause us bestows his lung cancer and ms a tell your mom. breathing in these fibers for even short periods of time can cause

cancer the symptoms of this cancer can take many years to develop 15 years sometimes 30 to 40 years and there is no known cure. why didn't my father warn me about the dangers. why did he allow me to work in these deadly dust. just before he died even told me to leave the matter all on for him as best us was a thing of the past. i decided to ignore his last wish and proof that the company he worked for is part of a worldwide industry that's causing death and destruction to this day. according to the world health organization officially more than 300000 citizens are

expected to die from as a tell your much by 2030 in the e.u. . eric is an activist who founded a big an organization for victims of us best of us. by my dad was a technical engineer he started working at hatter net in 1953 he developed mesothelioma which was diagnosed in brussels and he died 6 months later in 1970 i mean it's sort of what i said. but i had drug bust him ho. 31 of my sons told me that then the doctor had told him that morning that evening he told me mom you have the same illness as dad. and i meant my god you could. but i couldn't believe it it was incredible. to have quite a few weeks after deceit interview francoise boss the way. she left behind 5 sons

eric is the eldest. mary can his family lived in the shadow of the factory and so i was in the 5 brothers all the exposed because of as best as in the environment. for them it was your house far from the company. you know just across the road from the factory entrance was 50 metres away . your back to the beds then loaded came in 100 metres away for we would take the kids to watch nice little. not only their experience but 2 of his brothers died of us best us. so the shock for that moment to time we were just getting over our latest loss and bam more bad news hit us again so christmas is no longer the family gathering that it used to be. good for me good on the very. unfortunate died

was refused compensation. and courageous lee started the lawsuit against a texas internet. vulgarly youngcare a family claims ethernet knew that his best is dangerous and harmful to health but the company's lawyer says it and it did not know and was not at fault. if they did with the knowledge they had at that time a term that acted as could be expected from any normal industrial company in similar circumstances so they are not at fault here. i think that in its policy has always been to minimise the dangers of as best us know what you can eat our lungs were created by god to breathe in fresh air from the our dead it from the sea side but they weren't created to breathe and dust bin but i mean it's you know when you've got a special dose of that you get dust forming and that is definitely not a good thing because of how ever the research we are. pat down at the university of

leviathan proves that even at the moment of sawing hardly any as best does is released into the air and therefore the danger is almost 0. manager from the rest died of an as best as related to z's. in 1976 from the wrist became the president of the air i a. and lobbied hard to promote as best us. as best as in the environment is classified as an extremely low risk just like taking one beer per day. at the exit or net flourished and soon became a multinational company with factories in the netherlands france being italy all over europe. many international as best as corporations who went bankrupt because of us best us victims lawsuits at exeter need to call for factories from troubled

competitors and so they became a dominant world player. in 1981 in a meeting at 6 at an it had a new opportunity to benefit from. fiber demand in developing countries is expected to continue to rise over the long term. i think the internet soon acquires as best as factories in developing countries in africa south america and asia and india it takes internet had 5 factories. one of these factories in kind more is well known to the indian lawyer to prove mukherjee. the factories have been opened up in india to take advantage of blacks lol so so go why why are you here so we're trying to bring a case here in belgium we've been trying to see the options but you know ortiz a clear case him against it's order and court case against. e-text the parent

company saying that you knew very well when you were operating these factories that such best also was a costly jen and yet you operate at these factories negligent well over a court case we were able to prove done since 963 did you so no way they can say when they were doing that in the ninety's until 2002 they cannot say that now they've no look at it it's everywhere. what's happened is nothing less than corporate homicide. if you made a decision that has cost the lives of people then you should be held accountable for him in a criminal court. i wanted to see more of myself but i was hesitating. i've been exposed to his business my whole life like most of my village years my

lungs are affected. and i think my father would have warned me. not to go to india . welcome to the everything is great times with with the home all the night texas is very nice and vice in the course of. the factory was built in the thirty's by an english company ethics at or near the baltic company in 89 and named it everest. when his business was banned in belgium in 98 at the exit or need kept as best as production going until 2002. then they sold

their business to an indian family. the current indian owners did not want us to film in the factory. so we can see better from the top. but local people took me into blue today rooftop. of the mud up on. the fed does one go about the cyclone and india. this brings also back memories you know the odds are very similar even the roof of the factory is very similar. so many people work in the factory now now all it is a. 250 people. and it runs 24 hours here create every day shifts night 3 i read a 7 of 7. clearly see the sheets over there being piled up and now being taken himself and his factories for the north so should be for sold anywhere in the north .

it's best to think that all back to the finest man sheets. which are the ones to use in india. he sells everything from soaked through toothpaste and sweets so he selling asbestos sheets with sweets. so what we know is that if i was a man and shapes off the sometimes off the degrading we can even see it's already in these new seats yeah at the edge of it it's already started degrading and and then the fibers will come out from not. if you go anywhere in the air you will see 5 as many thing advertised as being a kind of strong building material that lasts for a long time that will protect you from the sun it'll take you from the rain. start to my ma you go cheney and get sick you see hundreds and hundreds of tons of asbestos. seized 997 when companies closed in the west the

consumption of us bestest products on drupal in india. you to see it on a bird flu. shot while i was walking and the effect of it didn't get us down all that often not where double alters reward. i have done the. last billiards on this bag is one thing about this vegas from what i saw this work is from santa cruz which. my father said sometimes it made me bother snowballs and yeah yeah yeah you do that this is being used in your kinds. are you really think any are inside they are not the behind. the curtain and then us home scratching their heads you know that. this is my wife. there's a lot never met another man in my life and i see me here let me direct that is

going to run ok you keep the minions my live in the shadow of the factories. the houses built by the factory for the workers are entirely constructed from us the best the sheets. the area they live on is known as the as best as compound. how you feel about living in this house and become highly cheating yourself i. wonder what it is but just a wired up the little bit there you have. such as a d.j. i was very happy. i used to do you need a small children and then they can go on i used to enjoy and they don't they're in the classroom and on the other side of the fence there is waste weren't you worried about them this quarter of only it is a separate and beside that they don't know the guy as whom is quite separate from

them. as uk which anita and are not afraid of because i never knew of owned a home of those their status baddies and i'm insane and the children didn't know either non-doing no one in the rich even that much less even on when i denied they were not. going to. care i'm ready. i think. obesity asbestosis crisis in the soil growth scrawling does business. this is the everest industry school over the. 400 students with a tween. a can 14 her school we did. as best this roof next to it i go.

to see the fibers for these 2 styles breaking down. not even any more but i'm saying no to the coming and going oh warnings that will begin it's just go to let you know. when did this start 1998. $9298.00 so that's at 6 epic start yeah. for the chase indulgence i got in touch with the canadian scientists and i guess having they found that there was anything 100000 square meters that. as best as waste 6 terry under 600000 i was like yeah. not just asbestos spacetime in india and possibly even south asia. 600000 square meters is the equivalent of one on there $1020.00 football fields. people for the flag and understandably i was just before did i dozed off to the

ground with older people living on the streets. or going to the polls one of them named the you can see here this if i were you i'd never burst before. i got a job just to get some to go i don't go meaning of even to go i was good to him again all over the you know when you give me a medal at the mean there's a border look what i did in little under you when you're young you are going to live and especially hard this is a close call let me let you know as little response you know close yeah you know the narco nothing like the going to have anyone but i'm not going to run the heart and heart of the monster so you know you'll notice the quality i was told it was just this why are you unwilling to make. you know only the point is that these are all cool people yeah and they give they give what this land and you know they're

not told about the waste and as a consequence of building i don't know how now they are aware of this before making this building they were aware of this fact. here's but as an international activist eric has come to crime or to a to go with his legal case against it takes internet to be. ok. i need to see how bad it has been reproduced your bill at the picket it looks like

they did such a good job. when i said that for these absurd truth without the fucking morons in time all in calcutta and in climates a lot on the korean modern shutdown and they opened another one and not taken 9595 . you are telling me that even though they knew dad's as business well these dangers and they were going to stop you know forced to stop in belgium in 983 years before that deadline they opened up a new one the one i got they believe anything without a thick skin they thought that they could continue manufacturing asbestos knowing what they knew about the circumstances of a special spray can diseases in europe this is what what makes me mad and what

makes me travel the world with the stuff. you have hospice stores use how many percent isn't going to lunch on monday and i know i'm suffering more but it is already national destroying dubai's and because i can refill my duty. when i walk i go from the ultra to the temple. and become reduced. i know i got. a lot. in a bit of the time that. he should have 2.8 that's 2 liters point it should be true

but here we go to 1.69 vs doing these tactics i would give any man disability or their deepest 30 minutes 1516 when you did these physics you seem to. be also read his hands in rot as a business and going to end up and put in a machine in the situation of working with a rock as a basis change when it gets paid or was it's the same. thing whatever they provided us with helmets to protect our heads in the winter it's only ok to do this in the arctic the herds do not protect their garden loves to protect their lungs they get good habits. and a document of ethics internet of 81 we can read it was important that the relevant homebase standards should be applied to subsidiaries.

yet we discover that the standards were never applied and the reason why they were never applied is also to be found in the same document is best as in health issue in most developing countries is not yet acute. but what i do about it. inspired by his father who organize similar makeshift medical centers to blue started working in india as a volunteer but looking at the length of time that they were exposed to asbestos they only exposed to asbestos if you don't have but it's close but no moderate. then we need to find out when they were married to see when they were exposed. to help the people of crime or in the surrounding area with their medical documents and yes. from i was sorry it's strange to see this logo here in

india if you leave off the everest and it's as if i'm back home to the us the. doctor combust out dr come back. next. year. i'm a surgeon i when i was an associate professor with a lecture in a department i don't need money for the occupation medicine you can only earn money if you work for the company but if you work for the company you cannot diagnose. occupational business so the only way you can do it if you do while in police work . well i'm suffering but i don't speak up in these otherwise i'll lose my job i mean you know i have young daughters and a son who is studying if i don't work of maine how will we survive kind of gaza and

. they're going to know what i'm going in the one that i'm sort of ingrained in their lane even if they don't work every day and there was never that i mean it's like i used to live with them or i'm in their work in their work and they don't know what they were like media because they don't know money. so you go to the disability bus and they don't 60 person 6 year old. to see their voice loss of weight loss of every day in order to eat going to grain probably has got a lot of guns and it has business he lives on the bubble of the mountain there and he needs some proper treatment by stating actually for a medical doctor not to be able to leave him completely and. utterly and.

it was made clear to me you know my wife is also something. i'll not have. i want her to live with me for a. quarter of their lives you have to face it. everybody has to die i mean basically not only did i do the philosophy of life everyone has done this is what i would look like this is why i like. father joseph you have been increased here for all of this you already did if you burials players even this only one boy you dismiss 39 years old from the 911 and.

just died yet of course we are there's been problem. the fact is that that was i think youth thing but they did not probably had a problem medical facility even when a daily pick up and the person who is going to a vet is how dense it is to do is that only often leptin is that. and again there are no official scientific statistics in india. conservative estimates are that under 1000 people are affected by asbestos related diseases in india if yeah every mayor every year but go in and record it it's already globally the largest. occupational disease asbestos these globally and this is going to be replicated in this country it's going to be going to be the sun they are not some nonsense they're involved in that it's not some. other play whatever but it has only ups and.

the 600 people visited the makeshift medical center. the number of people diagnosed with those distortions is 125. for his lawsuit against ethics entered it to ride on all of their testimonies. but on most papers i can see the name it's a neat say my 6 yeah for that period. there's no conversation right about there is no there's no compensation. they're not there. we would like to thank you for welcoming us you have open your doors so we could talk with your we could meet your faces my mother

she was 66 years old. these bleak and she was mad. we trust the indonesians they say they didn't do us no danger of us but we realised that they lied. we hope that the polluters we'll be taken to justice and we'll pay for the cleanup there is nothing we can do for the people who passed away but we must be thinking about the future generation it's starting down the it is compensation that naturalness has got to pay yes if. i'm going to find out i don't. i don't i'm a little lady said you know i'm going to thank you. don't take it in things that d.s. not man see and the levy on us.

i mean i really long for you on my t.v. i mean i do need to be really no mondesire we obviously aren't among. them and you would know i didn't i mean kongregate i do you need to give we're doing normal adama days but it's just. real. after 16 long years in the case of from swazi own kid to versus at 6 at an it the family's lawyer is finally handwritten official verdict it's tough if it gets difficult would look at the court recognizes it turn its responsibility and states . that ethernet you as a multinational and world player knew or should have known that exposure to asbestos can cause mesothelioma and that they should have known this since the mid sixty's since we did on the system it isn't beechwood off it's like david against

goliath we have this meeting goliath it takes more time when the means are unequal hopes. that both. were told me today france was young carer has won her battle for me and said the m. sons family you have written one of the darkest pages in belgium industrial history . to argue manufacture roofs but you prefer to stay in the shadow we were able to prove to the court that they knew they knew. already. also us from suarez who passed away confident rest in peace next to pierre para paulo and stuff. is there fun we don't view we miss you.

it's true i mustn't remain silent is it true i will cry out to him and i must bear up until this is all. this is a live satisfying. time is short you see. eric's victory has opened the doors for other claimants all over the world. i joined to go in on them to discuss whether he saw an opportunity for the numerous victims of crime or to go had some unsettling news he asked me what my precise connection was to british filmmaker probably more. after a while he started emailing and phoning and giving numbers of other people at a certain point he came to my village he's a very nice guy. i was wrong to reveal that rob moore was

a corporate sponsor. rockmore now claims to have been a double agent but the fact remains that he infiltrated numerous anti as best as movements throughout the world is spying gathered information of activists from india thailand indonesia and vietnam. information that could be used to in their day work and their claims against the as best as industry activists can now be tracked and killed. one of the things that makes me angry is it has the names and identities and photographs and voice recordings of all of these people without their permission. there are photographs in these files of him sitting with people are dying from aids or he i mean vietnam so he is sitting with me as if he am a victims and using them as a cover. to spy for the rest of his trees that really is

something that makes me angry. as business is still being mined in brazil china and in russia and it's on gold as best. it is still exported to countries like india it's a $1000000000.00 business. turns out hope more spying was funded by the biggest as best as mining company in kazakhstan it proves how far they are willing to go to stop the banning of us best us as their mother. was there are you now as you have been saying i want a lady i really need me yeah i'm here. i'm here. for the 1st time in her life never traveled by plane it's a big day she's invited to speak in geneva in front of united nations at the

business and human rights forum. leave my law partner here milosevic on behalf of the victims in india a good passes but in a way it is all the victims of asbestos who will speak out today you know to another mother you know and you know from there to keep other mothers speaking out a mother who sees her children losing their health holding. to despair do you hope to meet someone from a text here to see circuit. she can see her lawyer my whole top management or the c.e.o. will be here but i don't think they're going to come from boss by measurable spot cool but i bet they'll send someone who's got a big ear because only. it takes ethernet declined to participate in our film because not all conditions are sufficiently yet in order to respond both differently to your request.

you are here to fight for the rights of the people of how you have nervous look at our last word are we going to know that many people from all over the world come to listen to. our door made me know rosa there are already. high fence i made my last ever come from india in my eve. i have seen school many good. living up here in full live born to the laws of the day. whatever it is when happy but now why do you need a bone dumb generation this will not survive one day's. work then i

do opinion i meant hope they may have did so i headed talks. i was told was that he does this just this this should be he did immediately. turn it has got to pay the 2nd thing some compensation should be given to the victims and the 13 now does this is should be bad and good. am i right. don't do thing in this group. see i think we all have to come but yet. we have hands. and we have the ball landed only. large blue wall of their money. we should be. what we need only.

this is all everybody let's see it was today but only one thing is left. you know. best to lead lives is not the look to. didn't you know we gave. at a. price a time as best as is still not on the list of banned products. during the assembly of the rotterdam convention countries take decisions on which hazardous chemicals will be banned convention meets the consensus of all the member states major producing countries have blocked it since 2006 kid against on kazakhstan russia zimbabwe and india. we have committed ourselves a boarding house and put on packages for

a couple of more years few 1000000000 by 2 boy along with this chemical and it english is created man made has ill effects the only difference is that quantity and exquisite isn't it you sound like a real specialist i hope one day your country will manage also to bend as best as books and. it looks like it's going to take some time but in the end time means let me tell you back to today it's natural that. i wasn't under the impression that this best this would die a natural death. and meanwhile more and more people died. during the convention i tried to talk to representatives of the russian as best as in the street. no sir you speak english. in the us you only see the russian. can i talk to you about this situation. next on the russia well we're not. we

really are for open discussion certainly want to be in. your users are going to be like humans when we understand that the prohibition of its use will lead to the loss of $100000.00 jobs which country here is willing to lose that many jobs which extra 186 percent of lung cancer gives advice don't back book various kind of its uses there is no start of sticks of out of will any of our international convicted doesn't want to live on skies of doesn't just want to go out of the us a kind of business a logger i am still glitchy in your present eula b.s. that we consider that the adding of chrysotile us bestest in agendum 3 would have serious negative consequences for the economy the end all our citizens economy the things that. are required consensus is not reached i propose that we simply fall back to the issue for the next call to the consideration for the next call the decision to ban as best as is once again why postponed. reading.

the internet. under a new rule by the environmental protection agency it's best this is now legally allowed back in u.s. manufacturing. a russian mining company puts drums face on it says business products too many people have died continue dying and will die because of his pistols. one can only admire the courage and determination of ordinary people take action and make a difference. and it looks like the fight for justice will continue well into the 21st century. my father and i had our differences. but i think you would agree that if we allow companies to keep putting profit over

people. as vicious circle of greed who continue for eternity. africa. in the morning sees a student in the afternoon a reporter. tara is taking their camera workshops. to her free time she goes out and reports on ecological issues in among countries south africa it makes many people aware and it makes them want to take initiative and join us on eco africa.

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