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tv   Polluted and Poisoned  Deutsche Welle  July 30, 2023 5:30am-6:01am CEST

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for sustainability but also for horsepower the, it's time for the full bio revolution. 60 d w was thing for the winning offer is available world wide and for every language level, learning german has never been simpler german to go. the result of the logic is waging
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a battle against authorities could do nothing in the face of an imminent environmental catastrophe. here at the sight of a former chemical and arguments factory toxic waters threatens to flow into poland, vist dealer river, and destroyed the ecosystem for the activist. it's a grueling fight what the cost is supposed to come. you. i pay a very high price for what i do go. so it means a lot of hassle. not just for my private life, but overall because you particular stocky. but maybe there needs to be someone who points out that what's happening here is not right. listen to utah and 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 because of our people too much as me know. the,
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the the notion of was, is that the side of the former as dr and 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 seat unimpeded into the soil, contaminating the ground water. the reason the this is one of many areas on the side of the former plant. nearby was the pain department. today the social welfare office is just about 300
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to 400 meters from here. hold them. and my mothers with their children and many other residents go there. oh yeah, they live, i rid of 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, i looked up enough of the next to me. nobody does anything. it doesn't seem to matter to them. even the environmental agency ignores that. so going to be the, the saw him with a company the size of a city. it had 20 kilometers of roads, 70 kilometers of train tracks. even its own train station, a. there was a hospital stores, canteens, a cinema. in 2015, everything was shut down. the
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renate of logic grew up nearby. as a child, she was constantly sick for illnesses were likely triggered by industrial fumes. 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 story has shown serious concern. on the contrary, renada of logic has been harassed for drawing attention to the authorities, failures the. she's received death threats on
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facebook and her car was vandalized. the the 45 year old is a trained gerontology test who could be taken care of elderly people. she previously taught nurses therapists and caregivers how to look after seniors, but ever since she started advocating for the environment, she's been unemployed. she says her job applications are rejected. she's regarded as a troublemaker. now the single mother of a teenage daughter makes ends meet by preserving and selling fruits and vegetables . this
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is, i probably will be sure that you're going to be on the interest exactly what i'm the for the 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, is 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
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building. 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 need them 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 you know
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to, 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 and 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 this well switch if you can usually died. no,
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probably most days are looking for somebody nearby. but there's, i'm, and i'm lucky to have what the 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 a tro much you need to know it does or 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. so now we're facing the consequences. nature absorbed it and now wants to clean itself. we must tell that i know shaq and i should get to know how polluted the plant site is and they say that the soil should be replaced and the side 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
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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, oh my god, that they're not profiting. 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
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put them is the what i way go, but i thought we suffer from cancer. and while you got that to close to your brother died as lung cancer, i 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, the music display of you i was recently diagnosed with aside right to march mom. not as you know, the smoke or not, and you let the people small at the moment, but no one knows how it will develop. it took them, 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, this sort of obstruction. you want, i also had a miscarriage of some bullet glove this a bit and you all, we often have headaches and burning eyes just on the travel photo stop them. but as soon as we return, we get headaches again i, she been there,
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i start to birth because she's like, you some, these are the, some of the of the, this 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 jim, 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 say, think,
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i think we're going to love this my both paper source. that's the g o scientist for many years chopping and don't talk to the from the h e h university of science and technology and crack of our friends, a ranada of logic. so, you know, somebody who's chuck has been researching environmental pollution, caused by chemical substances for more than a decade. they would just use one of those published several scientific studies. grove, auto talked to carrie is from bid. gosh, she wrote her dissertation on this topic. and the scientists had been appealing to politicians for years and really made it clear that the site must be secured. but nothing's happened. for years eve of those pollutants are sleeping into the ground . it's sad that so much time passes between damage assessments and dispos a whole thing. and so by the supervisor, the scientist is investigations showing urgent need for action.
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let's just get those things done 6 to the is and this just seems a little bit of seo and 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, okay, so, but what about the money use? try to use that. if nothing is done, the contaminated water will seep into the ground water and then into the vist your pullman's most important river life. just a few kilometers from the city of good gosh, right next to the former plant side. i'm all of those days will be a single split of it is upon us and you still farm, you know, one who uses that under our feet. there are huge quantities of chemical substances, oregon, you know, comic and the comic books and they all talk sick. so would i leave them close?
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come so you send that. they also dangerous because they can move as long distances out of that. they'll go like washing beneath the surface safety, these toxic stuff happens as a traveling several kilometers and the 20 my directly to the vista that i need to is like, is this. what is that? what's the, what's by the use 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 the it was we propose the 7 years ago practice. they should then we'll have to then we'll cover everything with the layer of the concrete, with them down to an impermeable layer in the bedrock. and strongly coupled was out for the people didn't secure the whole thing kindly from above so that nothing can penetrate your store. on to go to the doctor, always revise thing if it were settled. a there are water sampling points at various places. on the former industrial side,
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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 of this water would burn all the plans. do you have you ever seen that brought a bottle of coca cola for comparison that are stupid. i meant to physical have used expedited shape. i'm using this man. this is a cool kind of cool parameters that we've measure today, indicate that the concentration of thought into contamination. dis, bosa is 3 times higher than the voltage. colorado. the color i'm smell indicates that it's on the safe stable. there's no oxygen in it. there's other organisms couldn't survive, i couldn't, but you're still standing from here and i was stuck in boston should other be school. most of the dyslexia of watching is that he's allowed to get up to you
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should you contact with this monitor can cause an allergic reaction or a skin rash. and sometimes that can irritate the skin. if you rub your eyes or it gets to the mucous membranes, it would not be healthy. it means that the water damage is the skin soft tissue for the eyes of long and go over those over right next to the water sampling point. an older man is collecting mushrooms, doesn't it bother him that they are growing on contaminated land? now you have in your mouth, well, there aren't any warning signs. if they were assigned that red thing, just mines, no one will go to the sign your apology. amazon my item, my wife eats the my children to move key of the this idyllic pond can be found and were not to have was ex hometown not far from
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the vist dealer river, but a few inches or deceptive water from the site of the former's ahem! 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 to suggest that it's a rate and a slot to i'm the vis jeanette is right nearby. the contaminated russo penetrates into the surface is in this area. how much is it? who is the scale of, of the, of your skills, right? so the level of this beautiful thought is that all of these, there are 2 possibilities. ends up in that 1st the decay of organic substances and the water which leads to oxygen deficiency and the fish suffocating things for a chemical contamination leads to the death of the whole system, the ecosystem of much more $72.00 of the system of systems. the poland most crucial waterway, is largely unregulated. so far,
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the vist jeweler river has been spared sockets, toxic legacy. but for how much longer the dog 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 good gosh. he's well aware of the danger, but doesn't consider it an urgent matter that he believes the contaminated water
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will take a few years to reach the vista. one that was on the, as us, in the cri, you all have a pomeranian province was working and x, 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 1st on this was most likely, most stuff in this mazda plan, or any general plan of action or the complex investigations, and needed the plumb joe on my machine. and those haven't been kyra down yet. students? yes, to musical. no, no, he said his agency has no knowledge of cancer cases among residents of wing normal, which is directly adjacent to them. they'll be small, it's another zip codes, middleton i go to. we've conducted a health risk analysis for the residents. so with no val fedloan and there's no increased risk that the in the area we started is put this on this. of course,
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here is the city does not have enough money to conduct them all complex survey of the residence of the villain uses a buzz that'll basically to would prove or disprove. on this, the cynthia diesel is upset or so it's a king size. all however, the cities, health risk analysis states 90 percent of the residents study to have abnormal blood cell counts more than half reported cancer cases in their families. traces of previous chemical production are everywhere on the former grandsons. awesome. 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
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rinaldo boys, ex 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. 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. well, the 20 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 that on google more for me as we spoke, the how much longer can be
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active is to take it the, the new literally as a class doesn't put supper on the table for my child though it won't get me a pen in the future, i'm unemployed to them 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? you know, i need real support if i don't get it just i'll give up that was a moment. 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
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a few weeks ago, she found 2 of her kittens dead in the garden. the 1st family history is closely linked to this awesome chemical and arguments. plan for 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 at the kind of a that's 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 just want to go, who is it 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.
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um, to the truck i had alters 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. yeah, cool. send you all. renata was a relishes the rare occasions she gets to go to this cafe with her daughter. today they have something to celebrate. the 14 year old won a gold medal polish youth championships to the camp and to them i would be a bad mother if i didn't fight for a clean environment for my child to a uses. however, it is not easy, right? let's do the summit that every day i see how people around me are rived or discouraged so that they stop actively fighting for
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a clean environment to cool. okay, in other words, the 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 this little bit. but i have nothing that can be taken away from me. you want me to go back except for my life me and the life of my daughter goes on millions of gym usage and we would it's gonna be the green auto plaza has sacrificed a great deal to fight the talk sense on our doorstep. but even she doesn't know if it will be worth it in the, in the
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