Chinese environmental care means spraying grass, trees, rocks oil paint “green”
Winston Sterzel (Serpentza) describes how in China people are paid to spray dead grass green, not with fertilizer or seed, but with oil paint. They even paint whole trees, rock faces and cliffs too. Sometimes the quickest way to keep the environmental inspectors happy at a mine site is by rolling out plastic “camo-net”. Sometimes they staple fake leaves to a tree. The government mandated that “we are going to care for the environment” and offered cash incentives from the local government.
It’s not just an environmental hazard, polluting the soil and water, but apparently emblematic of the kind of industrial grade absurdity that communist regimes do better than anyone. Sterzel used to live in China. He talks about the culture of “face” and the overriding importance of looking good. Many things about China, he says, are just a shortcut for appearances sake… everything about government propaganda works like “painting the grass green.” Lying becomes a way of life. Not that we in the West will get too high and mighty about this. There are worse lies, and we have them: like “Safe and Effective”.
Where are Greenpeace when we need them…
Dead brown grass becomes even deader green grass:
Spray painting the grass
It is oil paint — same color but not so good for photosynthesis:
It’s a smelly oil paint tin
No reason those trees can’t look green too…
Spraying the trees
Whole rock walls can be painted non-mossy luminous green, just like no Brytophyta on Earth:
Spray painting rock walls
Apparently when they realized oil paints might not be so good for the environment they moved on to rolling out carpets of artificial plants.
The Camo-net brings instant plastic to a wilderness near you:
Camo-nets roll out over the slopes
Never mind about the strangled wildlife.
The comments under the Youtube reinforce the message.
There’s no way to gauge how widespread the practice is, but comments suggest it’s been going on a long time. I doubt this is a major cause of pollution in China, just one of many — but it is a great example of a Government mandated “solution”. As Winston says: What China needs is a little bit of honesty. Don’t we all.
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We should at least be thankful that the paint used was a relaxing green.
Just imagine the unpleasant associations that bright red might bring from the past.
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Painting things green…isn’t that what ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is all about?
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Many years ago I was a recruit in Czechoslovak army. A general was coming to inspect our barracks, and the quartermaster decided that lawns were not green enough. We had to spray them nice green. The general was happy, and the lawns died soon…
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People in the UK have been increasingly replacing their lawns with astroturf, only recently been a bit of pushback.
Painting grass green is also not unheard of in the west – plenty of products available, especially to improve the look of sports pitches. Oil based though – I doubt it, not here.
Nordstream2 is dead, redirect to China!
Soon the MSM will be celebrating the fact China is reducing coal consumption thanks to renewables!
https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1570798304040218629?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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Most of them are food dyes, but all are certainly much more environmentally friendly than oil based paint. Yikes!!
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Absolute Madness with much more Madness to come.
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But communism is so good. Just ask the professors at an uni near you. Ask their students too. One young fellow I know is conservative told me he gets high marks by saying just what his Marxist teacher wants. A means to an end just as the communist manifesto states.
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He’s obviously read the Little Black Schoolbook
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He’s obviously read the Little Black Schoolbook
Now there’s a circular argument.
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The left in a nutshell ‘ Style over substance’
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I’m flummoxed by the man with the long sprayer covering what look like dead brush or small trees along the dirt dog-cart path.
I can’t imagine Xi Jinping or any other VIP of the communist party traveling along this route. Who is this supposed to please?
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? Do NASA satellite sensors look through those coats of paint?
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Same NASA satellites that produce proxy surface temperatures I suppose…..
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Apparently there is an infrared signature from living green plants, and it would be possible in theory to distinguish between fake greenery and real growth. I saw a commenter on the youtube chain offering to assess this if Sterzel could provide the coordinates.
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Jo this is not a new practice. Back in the later seventies I grew and sold roses to a local florist in Toowoomba. Joan rest her soul had a suite of small spray bottles of different colours to spray over any blemishes. Green was the most used of these as finding perfect foliage was always difficult. A vast range of these spray paints is available today “Just for Flowers”
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Sterzel pointed this out in the video — that the West does do some spraying with food dyes, and said “the CCP had to get the idea from somewhere”.
Tellingly in the comments that line was repeated by quite a few who thought it very funny and apt. Clearly those familiar with China thought this hit a nerve…
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https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1570731318572634112
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Wasn’t there also a case in the UK where the outer insulation also not fireproof ?
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Allegedly that building is in a lockdown zone but all the people were evacuated in time…
We’re all hoping that is not just the usual level of communist honesty.
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My handlers have told me that the mountain was painted in 2007 to improve the areas Feng Shui, ow that the fhe former mine site has been replanted they do not intend to paint it again
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It’s all part of the green final solution – which ends with Soylent Green of course.
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Many may not believe this but here goes: I worked in China on some joint medical research projects about 20 years ago. Completely naive about China, I had believed all the propaganda from the media in Australia (mostly their ABC) and was prepared for cutting edge equipment and highly trained staff. I was quite worried that my levels would seem rather backward compared to them.
Then I arrived.
I found dangerously unmaintained old equipment and staff who had no idea how to use equipment like ventilators used to sustain breathing during operations*. I needed some cylinders of medical oxygen but they delivered industrial oxygen. The difference is in purity and other contaminants and in our experiments the purity was essential. So the staff member in charge of theater operations happily peeled off the sticker declaring Industrial Oxygen (in Chinese) and simply slapped on a “Medical Oxygen” sticker. And after working there for a few months that anecdote very succinctly sums up their philosophy of complying with standards. Spraying landscapes with green paint fits with this.
*Fortunately the Drager brand of ventilators made in USA they used are amazingly foolproof, designed with many fail-safe features. I’m not connected with Drager by the way!
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This doesn’t surprise me.
I’ve been watching Winston Sterzel and Matthew Tye’s ADVChina motorcycle video logs on YouTube for a couple of years.
I highly recommend them as authentic, interesting, with no hype or BS.
They simply document and provide an excellent expose of what China is really like.
Worthwhile viewing!
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