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POLLUTION VIDEOS
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CHINA CELEBRATES ITS STATUS AS WORLD’S NUMBER ONE AIR POLLUTER
Now that the Beijing Olympics are over, China can get back to polluting properly! Enjoy this great dead-pan video satire on the subject, which uses the angle that politicians will try to put a happy face on just about any bad news. Funny stuff from The Onion. Go there
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FLUSHIE’S SUMMER VACATION — A witty animation that rakes the muck on the troublesome level of sewage contamination in US waterways and the outrageous lack of action or even attention to the problem by the folks who run things. From American Rivers and Mark Fiore via YouTube.
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AMERICA’S WATER POLICY IS A BELLY FLOP
A couple of informative and funny videos about water issues in the United States; from The Daily Show and Colbert Nation. Watch funny water supply video.
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ANIMAL COMMENT
Another good one from Flash-master Mark Fiore; this time acerbically addressing the horrors we direct towards our oceans and their inhabitants.
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“CLEAN COAL” AIR FRESHENER
This short, funny bit of video satire takes on the loosey-goosey term "clean coal," which the coal industry and its political allies love to pretend is "what we're doing with coal today" rather than "a theoretically possible approach to coal that is completely unproven." In fact, not only are there are no "clean coal" plants operating in the US today, there are none even planned. Repeat after me: "There is no such thing as clean coal." Watch funny clean coal video.
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POLLUTION VIDEOS
SERIOUS
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GLOOP
This is a nice little video about the rise of plastics in our modern way of living. What started out as a product panacea in the end turns out to be a nightmarish pollution problem. Watch plastic pollution video.
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TAR SANDS OIL — HEART OF ENVIRONMENTAL DARKNESS
What happens when pristine ecosystems and habitats meet environmental devastation on a scale the planet has never seen before? That experiment is fully underway in the tar sands oil production areas of Canada. See a slide-show review of the situation in this video on tar sands environmental destruction.
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POISONED WATERS
Using the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound as case studies, Frontline explores the question of why, almost 40 years after the passage of the Clean Water Act, our waters are still troubled. Watch water pollution video.
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Videos on Chemicals, Toxics, Pesticides
Videos on Energy, Oil, Peak Oil, Resilience
Videos on General Environmental Issues
Videos on Mining & Coal
Videos on All Topics
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Resources for Pollution (water, air, general)
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Sea Change Radio
In the Shadow of the Smokestacks — 24 Apr 2012 — Richmond, California is one of the many communities in America where economic and environmental injustice intersect. The Chevron Richmond Refinery saddles the area with chemical leaks and warnings for residents not to leave their homes. Greg Karras describes the local environment and the fight against the refinery's unnecessarily polluting practices.
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Living On Earth
Revisiting the Gulf Deepwater Disaster — 20 Apr 2012 — The well is capped but the Gulf oil disaster is not over. Oil remains in the water and is taking a toll on the ecosystem. Biologist Doug Inkley summarizes the biological impact and explains how oily plankton is making dolphins and other marine life sick. Then the two co-chairs of the National Oil Spill Commission, Bob Graham and William K. Reilly, explain why industry and government get low marks on the goal of making deepwater oil drilling safer.
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Radio EcoShock
The Scandal of the Tar Sands — 10 Apr 2012 — David Schindler, an internationally renowned scientist working in Canada, talks about his team's research into pollution from the tar sands in Canada. Topics include increases in cancer in local Native peoples; heavy metals and toxic polycarbonates being spewed from smoke stacks; and tar-sands companies spending 100 times more on green-sounding marketing than they are on environmental protection.
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