These Photos Prove China's Pollution Is a Disaster (27 Photos)

It is high time for environmental activists from all over the world to come together and go to China. There, their noisy activity is needed, like nowhere else!





Dead fish in a heavily polluted lake



A fisherman removes fish from the lake that died due to water pollution.



The current level of pollution in the country is enough to trigger a nuclear winter in all of China, scientists say.



Not only fish suffer - all aquatic life forms are affected by pollution



Two-thirds of China's cities do not meet the country's air emissions standards



Chemical factories illegally dump untreated waste into the Jianhe River, turning it red. This journalist is taking a sample



Residents of Zhugao look with disgust at the polluted river that flows through their city.



Rural residents have nowhere to throw garbage, so it all goes into the river



Not the best place for children's games - but there are no others



The world is throwing away all used electronics in China. It's an electronic dump



Only 1% of China's 560 million urban residents breathe air that is considered safe by European Union standards.



Oil spills are becoming more and more frequent due to the growing demand for energy



Offices and schools are increasingly closed because the air is too dangerous to go outside.



A child is forced to drink water directly from a polluted river in Fuyang



The Chinese government predicts that by 2030 all available water supplies in the country will be used.



Polluted sewage is dumped into the ocean every day



On January 12 of this year, the air turned out to be so bad that the air quality index could not even assess it.



Every year, 750,000 Chinese die prematurely due to environmental pollution.



In 2010, an oil storage facility in China exploded, spilling 400 million gallons of oil into the sea.



In 2012, 2,589 people died due to pollution in Beijing alone.



90% of China's urban groundwater is polluted



This lake in Hefei is completely polluted and overgrown with algae in the surface layer.



China has 20 of the 30 most polluted cities in the world



About half of the world's coal is used in China. In 2011, 3.8 billiond tons



By 2030, China's carbon dioxide emissions are estimated to be equal to all global CO2 production.



This child swims in algae blooms. Flowering caused by excessive agricultural runoff creating 'dead zones'