City of Smoke: A Mongolian activist and her fight to make air breathable in Ulan Bator — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:17according to the research of UNICEF
3. 0:20every year 400 children under age of
4. 0:24five died due to the air pollution air
5. 0:33pollution causes stroke pneumonia and
6. 0:36respiratory diseases our capital city
7. 0:43run better is a second most polluted
8. 0:46city in the world
9. 1:00my name is prophet surrendered I was a
10. 1:03journalist now I am an activist against
11. 1:07air pollution in Mongolia in wintertime
12. 1:13air pollution in the sambata is a 25 to
13. 1:1830 times higher than standards
14. 1:22miscarriage increases 3.5 times higher
15. 1:28than in summer time every woman feel it
16. 1:33[Music]
17. 1:37my first chest had cancer
18. 1:41now he's cancer-free and doctors hate me
19. 1:45the cancer could be caused by the air
20. 1:48pollution and my second child got
21. 1:51pneumonia two or three times every year
22. 1:55and we stayed in hospital every year two
23. 1:59or three times
24. 2:00there was no enough hospital bed to stay
25. 2:03with that on the floor and I was very
26. 2:06angry
27. 2:07so I started our NGO work our protest
28. 2:12actions it was in 2016 in our capital
29. 2:25city of Ambika 80% of the air pollution
30. 2:29comes from the third District area and
31. 2:31third District area we don't have an
32. 2:34infrastructure and we use raw coal to
33. 2:39heat our households
34. 2:49because of climate change
35. 2:51many herders come to capital city and
36. 2:56they burning coal and make air pollution
37. 3:02[Music]
38. 3:04people live in guilt district area they
39. 3:07don't have enough understanding about
40. 3:09their pollution
41. 3:10I'm journalist I need to first fight I
42. 3:14want to do what I can do after our NGO
43. 3:23organized the six protest action against
44. 3:25air pollution Mongolian government first
45. 3:27time released national programme against
46. 3:30air pollution I became a member of
47. 3:33National Committee and our government
48. 3:37decided to reduce air pollution by
49. 3:40briquette
50. 3:43this briquette is also cold but it's
51. 3:48wash it and compress it call
52. 3:55after National Programme against their
53. 3:57position released I became a board
54. 3:59member of briquette factory sometimes
55. 4:05briquettes factory line breaks down
56. 4:11quietly after you break up sometimes
57. 4:14it's good sometimes it's not good so I
58. 4:18go through the briquette factory and
59. 4:20trying to check everything I can our NGO
60. 4:28has a Facebook group and our Facebook
61. 4:30group has about 140,000 members those
62. 4:36people gave me information about a
63. 4:38briquette supply and briquette quality I
64. 4:42usually go to the factory it once a week
65. 4:46everywhere I go I share information with
66. 4:49my Facebook group every day I go through
67. 4:54the dear district area it's my biggest
68. 4:58job sometimes selling points are close
69. 5:05it and sometimes it's finished and
70. 5:08people come in to buy briquettes and day
71. 5:11going with empty bag it's very difficult
72. 5:19in wintertime because minus 40 degree is
73. 5:24a wet jerk without briquettes and
74. 5:29without heating system
75. 5:33to communicate with people who don't
76. 5:37know me it's difficult they will not
77. 5:39tell me truth so I gave them masks and I
78. 5:46gave them some clothes and then they
79. 5:49will start talking more about the
80. 5:51reality so it's like my small trick
81. 6:00after I gave it masks the people start
82. 6:05talking about more about the briquettes
83. 6:07more about health problems more about
84. 6:10Hospital issues in developed country
85. 6:14I heard that children are not die
86. 6:18because of pneumonia but even today we
87. 6:24make disappear all our pollution the air
88. 6:28pollution will affect our children's
89. 6:30health next 20 years it's already
90. 6:34affected them and we can't change that
91. 6:42when I first realized about their
92. 6:45petition effect on children's health I
93. 6:49wanted to move out abroad but I have an
94. 6:54understanding about our petition I
95. 6:56haven't lots of information about their
96. 6:58position if I move abroad who will be
97. 7:02filed against their petition and weary
98. 7:08idealistic person I think we can reduce
99. 7:11our position in long term we need to
100. 7:16stop burning coal in the future we want
101. 7:24more green energy resources I think we
102. 7:28need build and develop more
103. 7:30infrastructure we need to stop climate
104. 7:34change and we need to reduce poverty
105. 7:38that's the long-term solution
106. 7:46[Music]
107. 7:49you