The Most Polluted Country in the World

[odanny]

Try and watch this entire video and you will feel nauseous at some point at what you are seeing. Just imagine living in this hellscape for a week. If you visited, you'd have to pack in food and bottled water. The guy in the video is from Costa Rica, one of the cleanest countries in the world.

 

[Woodznutz]

One of the reasons Costa Rica is such a wonderful place is that long ago they repudiated the military and used their resources to build a clean and safe country for their citizens and for others who visit as tourists.

 

[Zafira Cherry]

Try and watch this entire video and you will feel nauseous at some point at what you are seeing. Just imagine living in this hellscape for a week. If you visited, you'd have to pack in food and bottled water. The guy in the video is from Costa Rica, one of the cleanest countries in the world.

Just imagine the Cuyahoga river "burning". You got your choice.
Pollution "over there" or "over here". Go ahead, bring manufacturing back to America.

The 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, occurring on June 22, was a well-known event where the river in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire due to industrial pollution. The fire, while not the first time the river had burned, gained national attention and helped galvanize the American environmental movement. This event led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 and the Clean Water Act in 1972.

 

[Crepitus]

Try and watch this entire video and you will feel nauseous at some point at what you are seeing. Just imagine living in this hellscape for a week. If you visited, you'd have to pack in food and bottled water. The guy in the video is from Costa Rica, one of the cleanest countries in the world.

This is what the EPA keeps from happening here.

Yes, the same EPA tRump is in the process of gutting.

 

[ReinyDays]

One of the reasons Costa Rica is such a wonderful place is that long ago they repudiated the military and used their resources to build a clean and safe country for their citizens and for others who visit as tourists.

The rap on Costa Rica is it's generally a poor country ... United Fruit Company couldn't profit on banana plantations there ... thus it has been largely ignored by drug cartels and US Imperialism ...

... if you believe Panamanians ...

 

[odanny]

One of the reasons Costa Rica is such a wonderful place is that long ago they repudiated the military and used their resources to build a clean and safe country for their citizens and for others who visit as tourists.

So true. My concern with Costa Rica is over tourism. When I was there 15 years ago they were clear cutting along the beach to put up new resorts. Money wins in the end, and the earth loses.

 

[odanny]

Just imagine the Cuyahoga river "burning". You got your choice.
Pollution "over there" or "over here". Go ahead, bring manufacturing back to America.

The 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, occurring on June 22, was a well-known event where the river in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire due to industrial pollution. The fire, while not the first time the river had burned, gained national attention and helped galvanize the American environmental movement. This event led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 and the Clean Water Act in 1972.

There were some things that President Nixon got right.

 

[Woodznutz]

So true. My concern with Costa Rica is over tourism. When I was there 15 years ago they were clear cutting along the beach to put up new resorts. Money wins in the end, and the earth loses.

My daughter just got back from a weeks' vacation there. She loves it and would like to live there. They stayed in a modern house on a scenic jungle bluff (complete with Howler monkeys) for about $150/night.

 

[1srelluc]

Maybe we should have let it die.

 

[Meathead]

One of the reasons Costa Rica is such a wonderful place is that long ago they repudiated the military and used their resources to build a clean and safe country for their citizens and for others who visit as tourists.

Another reason: Demographics of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

 

[Woodznutz]

Another reason: Demographics of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

Good point.

 

[Meathead]

Just imagine the Cuyahoga river "burning". You got your choice.
Pollution "over there" or "over here". Go ahead, bring manufacturing back to America.

The 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, occurring on June 22, was a well-known event where the river in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire due to industrial pollution. The fire, while not the first time the river had burned, gained national attention and helped galvanize the American environmental movement. This event led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 and the Clean Water Act in 1972.

That was over half a century ago. Things change in the Western world.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Try and watch this entire video and you will feel nauseous at some point at what you are seeing. Just imagine living in this hellscape for a week. If you visited, you'd have to pack in food and bottled water. The guy in the video is from Costa Rica, one of the cleanest countries in the world.

It's true, wealthier countries can afford to spend money on the environment.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

So true. My concern with Costa Rica is over tourism. When I was there 15 years ago they were clear cutting along the beach to put up new resorts. Money wins in the end, and the earth loses.

Money wins in the end, and the earth loses.

If you can barely afford to feed your kids, you have no money to pay for clean air and water.

 

[initforme]

Money wins in the end, and the earth loses.

If you can barely afford to feed your kids, you have no money to pay for clean air and water.

True on that. But raising one's kids in a toxic environment is also horrific. Clean air and clean water should be of highest considerations. It costs nothing to protect them and business only gains more when they are protected. Our bodies require clean air and purified water. Basics.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

True on that. But raising one's kids in a toxic environment is also horrific. Clean air and clean water should be of highest considerations. It costs nothing to protect them and business only gains more when they are protected. Our bodies require clean air and purified water. Basics.

But raising one's kids in a toxic environment is also horrific.

Agreed.

Clean air and clean water should be of highest considerations.

Food and water are highest.

It costs nothing to protect them

Link?

Now ask anyone in Bangladesh how much they are willing to spend to reduce CO2.

 

[Meathead]

It's true, wealthier countries can afford to spend money on the environment.

I've been to Cambodia (and not just ritzy tourist spots), a piss poor country, but I have never seen that level of squalor. You see them (mostly women) sweeping and cleaning constantly and you rarely see anyone throwing litter on the ground. The entire Indian sub-continent is pretty much a trash heap. Clearly, it is the people and not the poverty.

 

[odanny]

As desperately poor as Bangladesh is, it is also very safe. Violent crime against foreigners is extremely rare, and the same guy says in another video from there that he has not even been approached by scammers in all his time there.

Let's talk the contrast with the richest nation on earth, where you can be snuffed out for your wallet, yet walk safely amongst the poorest people on earth. When people say the poor are the most generous, they are telling the truth, it's the same everywhere.