souls, but their response has been hostility, polluted, and poisoned dw was waiting offer in the world wide. and for every language level, learning german has never been simpler. german to go. 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 the steel river and destroyed

the ecosystem for the activist. it's a grueling fight. what is that? the alarm and 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. ocean. 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 too much. as we know. the notion of was, is that the side of the former as often chemical plant ghost during the 2nd world

war, germany produced explosives and gun powder here. then from 1948 on it was run by polish authorities. c c later, the plant added chemical production, the for decades, toxic substances seep unimpeded into the soil, contaminating the ground water. the reason is the finish 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, i love talking up of the next to me. nobody does anything. it doesn't seem to matter to them. even the environmental agency ignores that. even though the saw him was a company, the size of a city, it had 20 kilometers of roads, 70 kilometers, a train trucks. even its own train station. 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 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 anything, no one in authority 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 facebook and her car was vandalized. the

the 45 year old is a trained a 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 or 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 . the probably will be sure to be on the interest because after the group sees the name make preserves more uh, mazda select, my mother used to use 90 percent of the preserving jars in the basement,

or from her moms that's particularly to hold. since i have no income and don't earn anything else is from this is very good for us to call 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 cast 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. the dilapidated production building. new businesses have settled here, the

june, the gushing us of, i'm the not the of was you. renate of logic is meeting with former plant workers and you will need them ship. they do not want to give their names out of fear of repercussions. me village, you work at some of them for long or 30 years total at the plans. the teens at zach them directly. companies. okay. me, pennsylvania. nice. mm hm. i sent you uh, 40 years. so the she lost the 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 ana lea and at the plant it impacted his health. never been one time. i had to replace a gasket in one of the buildings and inhaled some on a 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 were in was black connect dismissal because of that also is are you still in contact with your colleagues from the unaligned department today? no, that's all. that's why these, these people aren't in this well, so you can easily died. no, probably most days are looking for somebody nearby. but there's something i'm lucky to have work best so long usual. mm. that goes on just 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, who 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 help out. i know shaq and i should get the to know how polluted the plant side is. they say that the soil should be replaced and the side the contaminated. so why is nothing being done? unions. 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. there's a lot of green or a implants, everything's beautiful and what conclusions are drawn from that? and this is if it were really poison single, grow the perception stuckey, so i'll shoot you that. 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 to people need to get involved. we shouldn't give up to she is on gosh, oh my god, i don't not prompting you to buy with perfect 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, the she and her family are living with the effects of the pollution. here does not to put them is the way to go. but after we suffer from cancer, and while you got that the close to your brother died as lung cancer, i found you. my father is bone and throat can cause you though,

is because uh, some of our neighbors also have kids see either to water cancer and breast cancer. oh, it does not do that as i'm usually the split of you. i was recently diagnosed with aside right to march mom. not as you know, the smoke or not any living with people small at the moment. but no one knows how it will develop. it's will come here from those, but i've known i've, i've been at the same disney the scene. i have a daughter with a disability. she has genetic damage and yes, and we knows why there's much at the surface book this looks like a 15 year while i also had a miscarriage. doesn't bother glove this. mm. between you oh, we often have headaches and burning noises down the travel stopped. i'm exposed without them, but as soon as we return, we get headaches. again, i keep it there. i start to burn diversities like you some, these are the, some of the on the the

is because it's just because the positive ownership is effects of, you know, she, it's all just swept under the rug for 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. and i was like back after school, just use the going from. it's the say, thank you. what's this my both are per se, all that's the jo scientist, somebody who's chop, and don't talk to the from the h e h university of science and technology and crack of our friends of or not of logic. so the body shop has been researching environmental pollution,

caused by chemical substances. for more than a decade. they would just use one of yours, published several scientific studies grove, auto talked to carrie. it's from bid, gosh. she brought her dissertation on this topic. and the scientists had been appealing to politicians for years. we made it clear that the site must be secured, but nothing time passes between damage assessment and dispose of the whole thing. and so by the soap, with all the scientists, investigations showing urgent need for action. let's just get those things done 6th through the end. so this just seems a little bit of seeing what all of these substances, especially pablo, 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 what was about to go to the 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. i'm all of those days. the best that goes, but of it is upon us and we still farm, you know, one who says that under our feet there are huge quantities of chemical substances, oregon, you know, no gun, a candle comic books and they all talk sick. so i would, i could even close come so it's kind of a also dangerous because they can move as a long distance divided them together like washing beneath the surface safety. these talk stick stuck sentences of traveling several kilometers directly to this channel that i need to is like, is this. what is that? what's the, what's by the use?

both of those things. 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, it was, we propose the 7 years ago, but like disney should then we'll have to demo a, cover everything with the layer of the concrete, what i'm down to in impermeable later in the bedrock. and suddenlink up was, was out for those 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. always revise thing if it were settled. there are water sampling points at various places. on the former industrial side, 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 this water would burn all the plan. you have you ever seen that brought

a bottle of coca cola for comparison? that's a stupid i meant to physical heaviest, expedited shape. i'm using this man. this is a cool kind of cool parameter that we've measured today, indicate that the concentration of salt and contamination disposal 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 and it's position. other organisms couldn't survive, i couldn't, but yes, so stand you from here and i was stuck in wash, they should have the least cool. most of the most are dyslexia of watching, if that he's allowed to give it up to you should be in 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. the water damage is the skin soft tissue for the eyes of the 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 your mouse. well, there aren't any warning signs. if they were a sign that red thing just mind, no one will go to the sign your apology. amazon my item, my wife eats them my children to move keith this idyllic pond can be found and were not to have was ex hometown not far from the vist dealer river, but a few inches. are deceptive water from the side of the former's arm, 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 flowing

into this pullman to suggest that it's a rate in the slot to i'm the vis sheila is right nearby. the contaminated, russo penetrates into the stuff is in this area. how much is it? who is the scales on the ocean? all right, so the level of this, it gives us a thought, is that all of these are, there are 2 possibilities. first, 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 a whole. this deal, the ecosystem of much of $72.00 is the whole system of systems. the poland, most crucial waterway, is largely unregulated. so far. the vist gyla river has been spared sockets, toxic legacy. what 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. he believes the contaminated water will take a few years to reach the vista, one that was on the news 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 because 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 law. we've conducted a health risk analysis for the residents. so way, novo said lowering and there's no increased risk dash. so in the area we start is put this on this. of course, here's the city does not have enough money to conduct a more complex survey of the residents. that the villain uses a buzz that'll basically to would prove or disprove. on this, the cynthia diesel is up such as the king size zone. however, the city's 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 grandson is awesome and this extensive area is freely accessible. 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 rinaldo valasics battle often feels futile. the

cause of them shit, balls. yeah. as you can. so you know, 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 with that because of the one who took off the top of a job as a customer very well. when i asked her why, and she said that something could happen, jace, your guess you put that to google more for me as i 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, though it won't get me a pension in the future. i'm unemployed mom, 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, usually you're going to, if i don't get it, just i'll give up that was a moment or you may not have lies ex hometown of windows. all plots of land are up for sale. viewing a decline in market value. many hear one to avoid bad publicity about the neighboring factory site. the 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 yeah, all to do is 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 go politically options 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. yeah,

of course i know not of was it relishes the rare occasions she gets to go to this cafe with their daughter. today they have something to celebrate. the 14 year old, one a gold medal, polish use championships, the new to the capital of them. i would be a bad mother if i didn't fight for a clean environment for my child. talk 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 a clean environment to copays new. in other words, look fighting for the health and life. a lot of other people have so much emotion to your home and show that he's got to be picking up the stuff that you just tell me. 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 moines, the gym usage, and we would,

it's gonna be the green auto plaza for sacrifice. 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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