If This Dam Fails, It Pollutes Half of Europe.

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Want to restore the planet’s ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 100 people to join Planet Wild with my code WHATONEARTH2 will get the first month for free on me: https://planetwild.com/r/whatonearth/join If you want to get to know them better first, check out their mission protecting Romania’s forests with chainsaw detectors: https://planetwild.com/r/whatonearth/m31 --------------- Welcome to Geamăna, a once-picturesque village in rural Romania that now lies under dozens of metres of corrosive, disgusting toxic sludge. But how did this happen? Why was this village sacrificed? And what can be done to reverse the damage done? Come with me on what was a genuinely miserable trip to the Apuseni Mountains to find out. --------------- Welcome to What On Earth Is This?, a YouTube channel featuring strange and quirky things from around the world that you may not have heard of. Think abandoned engineering marvels, weird funiculars, transit oddities and other bits of history you never wanted to know about... until now. Like and subscribe and all that. Follow me on IG at @WhatOnEarthIsThis CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 02:23 The Ceaușescu Chronicles 03:56 How to ruin a country 05:14 The copper mining process 08:34 The flood 13:29 But what chemicals? 16:12 Keep on pumpin 18:52 Dam troubles 20:46 An unsolvable problem CORRECTIONS: 14:59 This is a bit of an overstatement TBH. In my research I was led to believe acids of this strength are instantly corrosive but I've sinced been informed that, while still potentially deadly, they are not immediately so. So it's still very bad and toxic but not AS toxic as I'd suggested here. Apologies!