Russia spend $51 million dollars the last five years to you
do construction for the Olympics and so cheap
and part of the problem with this construction is that babe violated up
many environmental standards
now keep in mind that some other buildings are they build were green
conscious
so they wanted to make sure that they built these buildings while you know
in using certain standards to make sure that you know
it's good for the environment but in the process of doing so they actually kinda
destroyed
up the wetlands in Russia so let me give you a few examples
authorities have reversed legislation protecting national parks in order to
allow for those green buildings to go up as a result
construction on the olympic village end up affecting over 8
thousand acres the so G National Park a strictly protected UNESCO World Heritage
Site
so this is one example yeah you know I'm axiom
a.m. a mixed feelings about this that apparently one other problems was that
they drove the bears away
there was your words the Bears were on the words on there were sixty five
species of birds which were buried under six and a half feet
have crushed rock well reptiles in brown bears have reportedly gone missing from
surrounding mountain areas
right sowie here's why I have mixed feelings about it I
here this is my old conservative a Jane coming up right
I feel like well at some point we got a bill stuff right an hour to build stuff
we have pics up to I and they claim that they plan to three times as many trees
as they took down
I hope that's true if it's not true then obviously the big problem right
when you take down trees was gonna happen does a bear shit in the woods
yes so it's gonna go to another par the what's he can you have it happens with
the essence okay so
the so the the Brit bears a germantown sometimes a burst angel
now in my good are earners environmentalists will be
pissed and so you can't do that my answer is that you can ever do that
it my answer is bounce sometimes in order to build
you have to do some more something as long as I now
I'm today considered a massive environmentalists in this political
spectrum what
because is one thing to worry about a bird here in a bear their
it's another thing to destroy the planet and that's where the middle doing
right so yes I'm a big climate change worries me
his I'm not worried about the same development as much as I'm worried about
saving me humans
so that's going to subside and its downside
now also Russia has bullied environmental activists here
I nobody goes even further okay so you're not worried about the Bears in
the birds or whatever but they are screwing with people they're living in a
particular mound
village near Sochi so there's an area where they have about five wells right
and this this village depends on the water from those wells
well the officials in so she had to build a road in order to
makes OG more accessible to tourists and two Olympians are going over there
and in the process of doing so they apparently up
built or they paved up over
forum the wells and then needed something to destroy the fifth one
okay there talking with people in the area right and they're doing so because
of course hosting the Olympics
makes them look good of course it does also bring in money to their town to
their country
and I understand why they want to do it but they just read out
ignored certain standards when it comes to the environment in there also
screwing around with the ecosystem
now should also note to be fair that this is I want a few times where
the the host country has considered building
green construction but in the process of doing that they also did things that
were counterproductive like
paving the road over four other wells that this
tell depends on so look again I'm a spike did the russians want to do the
green construction
I don't know I don't know what's in their hearts but the reality is the
olympic committee wanted that
so the russians oh yeah of course get we're all going to be super real or
doing it
misery totally green construction okay explosions were bulldozing
so and then this the Olympic Committee
care about this apparently not me that one second so
yes a some were worried that their landfill
is going to seep into the nearby river contaminate a half or so to supply
drinking water
that's obviously a huge issue yet now my guess is if you ask people in that town
do you want the olympics here
create all the jobs build-out et cetera but
we're gonna drive you out some other wildlife plus we're gonna tell me your
water that it would be a close question
and he would probably still vote YES to be honest rip if they if their water
will get contaminated
yeah okay I could be wrong I could be totally wrong you can add water to
survive no no I understand that right
by Ed but I think a lot of people so let's get the jobs will figure it out
will clean up the water to be fine
right I again maybe I'm wrong maybe they'd vote overwhelmingly yes sir but
they're not getting a vote in this case
now let me tell you bout with the russians are doing wrong above and
beyond that
so there's environmentalist their protector or protesting this
while you guys whose about most adamant about it is Yevgeny
british girl right and so they like how you're progressing okay well
we're gonna give you up three years up
%uh poor sign that you put up on somebody's
letting their house offense outside their house right led by the way they
charged him with their
hooliganism law you wouldn't even meet it means whoever we want to charge
exactly
right and he said that was the liver destruction of property
but it was not three years ago to prison right it was like hey you know what
yourself so if you do anything wrong
then we'll send you to prison. you see when i sexy smarter
because they're not just throwing them away they're trying to intimidate him
sorry to say anything area so the minute he says something I'd be violated your
pearl
now you get the three years in a penal colony Margate now before leaving it
strive for that was his name a convicted
that's when they say 0 inundated in
a different part of town you swore in public
so we put you in jail for 15 days
all will look at perhaps the 15 is Olympics are going on
I guess nobody's gonna hear about their by Malcolm said they send
the same so or similar threads to see rent because our Ian
and I just want to mention his Armenian his environmental this is looking awful
people Russia also
respect one love I and I'll finally the International Olympic Committee contends
that his arrest
the guy we're just telling you about was not directly related to the Olympics
go lower so their national Olympic Committees clearly covering for the
russians here
like bull those whatever you gotta do where and by the way we gotta throw
people in jail even though they're just protesting
do it who cares right so that also bothers me
tremendously so my overall point is
even if you don't agree with the environmentalist about the expansion
there are many reasons to be pissed at the russians they're not really trying
to be green
there put people in jail who disagree with them and then
there such huge environmental issues even if you are an environmental my son
this
it would help to save the planet for human beings as well so overall
always have to be environment yeah