The Most Toxic Town on Earth (And People Live There)
A city built on ore became one of Earth’s most toxic places. Uncover Kabwe’s century-long lead poisoning crisis, colonial extraction, failed cleanups, and the children still paying the price today. Love content? Check out Simon's other YouTube Channels: Megaprojects: / @megaprojects9649 Warfronts: / @warographics643 Sideprojects: / @sideprojects Into The Shadows: / @intotheshadows Today I Found Out: / @todayifoundout Brain Blaze: / @brainblaze6526 Casual Criminalist: / @thecasualcriminalist Decoding the Unknown: / @decodingtheunknown2373 Celestium: / @astrographics-ve4yq 00:00 Introduction 01:15 A City Built on a Stone of Ore 03:08 Company Town, Toxic Town (1906–1930s) 05:04 How Lead Poisons a City 07:47 Slow Burn: Early Warnings, Little Action (1970s–1994) 10:41 The First Big Cleanup That Wasn’t 11:57 Counting the Poison: The Science Gets Serious (2010s) 14:14 Mining the Waste: Poisonous Profit 15:28 Who Pays? Anglo American, the Zambian State, and the Courts 18:32 The Second Big Cleanup: ZMERIP and Its Limits 19:49 Kabwe as Sacrifice
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