The Dark Truth About Rubber | True Cost

[@benkroneberger]

What a sad yet motivating story. From burying his son at 15 to saying he feels like crying sometimes because he has no grass for his cows. Im so glad channels like forbes giving attention to this guy!! He deserves it.

[@EA-tc6kb]

Pity it won't change a thing, awareness and action are two different things, not a single act of responsibility of the corporate fat cats that are the true cause of the exploitation. Luckily we will still have a GoodYear so stay warm this winter and replace your Firestones.

[@yotsugiononoki2842]

How is it motivating? His suffering continues. He keeps being expolited by billionaires. It should make you angry. What can he do with attention. will attention stop poverty

[@Gu9udan24]

sadly, this practice is very common in South East Asia. Rubber, Palm, Coal, Nickel, Gold, you name it. Government doesn't care whose land it is as long as they get obscene fees.

[@Yah-Izoa-Hakaboth]

@@yotsugiononoki2842 Nope! Sure wouldn’t! It’s called Faith without works is dead!

[@Bryanseas]

@@yotsugiononoki2842 no but its a step in the right direction. Just by these videos alone i find myself visiting these places in other countries dummy and ik others like me exist. My point is, awareness brings out the ppl who care

[@shyman580]

My heart goes for the Cambodian people, because I am one myself! They have gone so much and they are such amazing people! Thank you for sharing this story!

[@princesssprinklesthecat4192]

You're Cambodian? Why so many child hookers and cat eaters?

[@subterrain5293]

Can't expect anything from a useless communist govt..

[@HPM2006]

It’s alway their own that are harming them smh

[@AutumnDay122]

This is so sad. Especially the starving people and cows that had no idea what was happening and were powerless to stop these large companies

[@oriplaydirty]

I hate America

[@Sandlin22]

Not sad enough for you to move off the grid and stop funding the companies

[@pokemonster6122]

@@Sandlin22 that’s impossible almost all land is owned and any that is not is extremely expensive

[@jermainec2462]

They know what's going on they just don't have the power to stop it

[@jermainec2462]

@@bruhWTH43 if they can then how come it's not happening? Obviously something's stopping them to getting their land back... Those people need help... I have never understood all that come in and take people's land that was there before you type shit.... And the government needs the money because it's a poor country so they go right along with the fuckery it's a mess

[@Temperature_2635]

As a Vietnamese, my parents told me to never trust the Vietnamese big corporations’ moral cause it was most likely some sort of coruption happening. I felt ashamed that big corporation like HAGL would do thing like this. I wish that HAGL will fall one day and a better generation can help bring back morality in the Vietnam business.

[@CeVarrr]

Nhà nước Campuchia bán thì hagl mua, vc quái gì lại đổ tội cho công ty?:))

[@sarcosmic6982]

Vietnamese-American here. I know very little about my parents' country other than war, corruption, and talented artists selling to international audiences via the internet. How sad that this Vietnamese company, along with many others and the Cambodian government, aided in stealing and taking advantage of others' land and sacred places, all for the sake of profit... It's very despair-inducing.

[@houngkimsrong3926]

as a cambodian this not your fault this is their fault and hopefully the company will get paid for what they had done.

[@Bryanseas]

@@sarcosmic6982 your family was blessed by our lord and so He brought you guys to America. No business will ever be morally intact. Noone is morally intact without Godhead, that is YHVH our Father in heaven

[@YOU-GET-WHAT-YOU-HAVE]

That's all big companies in general, because if they didn't do it,their competitor will.

[@imxploring]

One of my favorite KZbin channels.... interesting stories... well presented in a very reasonable length!

[@ashtree3006]

Yeah, don't want to spend too much time thinking about what greed is doing to vulnerable people around the world.

[@sun14820]

This channel is my favourite too

[@selvirajendran126]

Yeah...i love their content

[@ashtree3006]

@@sun14820 You shine brighter than the light of a video screen!

[@ashtree3006]

@@selvirajendran126 I love YOU!

[@piplup10203854]

That’s absolutely soul crushing to hear that man’s graves of his grandchildren were devastated and destroyed 😔

[@kiransatyan]

Man, that is so criminal of the companies doing this to the communities..

[@90enemies]

Definitely But the fault lies with the Government since they're the ones who allowed for companies to take priority over their own people in the first place. Foreign companies mind you, not even local business.

[@vantablack5690]

Crime is determined by the government and the government is run by the companies

[@cosmotran3034]

vietnam be like that though ahah

[@mrrinkable]

It's not the companies it's the gov

[@cosmotran3034]

@@mrrinkable yes ik, i was just making fun of my own country dont worry. im 100% vietnamese

[@sustainablelivingschool12]

What a horrible situation for the indigenous groups relying on the land with greed at the center of it all. Thank you for making this video and bringing more awareness to these challenges!

[@BxBxProductions]

What's worse is these companies may resort to salting the land in spite before returning it to them.

[@Sjalabais]

Business Insider is getting a strong presence for investigative journalism on KZbin. Short, well-filmed, well-presented videos that matter. Well done!

[@phucnguyen-pt8qd]

Not quite

[@Anna-ps1us]

Yeah.... sometimes you get a sense of certain products and companies. Some of which are hard to hold accountable or completely eliminate because of their prevalence. As a consumer, this is crucial information that needed to be seen. Thank you

[@warrens.5933]

Same sort of thing can be seen in the more remote parts of southern Thailand. Right next to Khao Sak national park, for example, is pretty much entirely rubber and palm oil plantations. Which are standing in the place of what would have otherwise been a diverse jungle landscape. And the roads are full of trucks loaded to the top with palm. Seems to be the main livelihood for people in that area.

[@evanrutherfordlazyahole9079]

Large plantations can also ruin natural agriculture and soil the people should be compensated.

[@Mryodamiles]

As a Thai person, the government policy of promoting rubber trees is incredibly stupid. It started more than a decade ago when the rubber price was high, so the gov encourages/subsidize people to grow rubber. The problem is that Thailand is not the only place catching on to this high price and other countries did the same (welcome to basic economics). So by the time the rubber tree is ready to be harvested, the rubber price plummeted due to the huge supply for china/Indonesia/etc.

[@Paumere]

So is happening in Guatemala 🙁

[@DengueBurger]

People should just use the oil they get from animal fats that they usually throw away. I say that could really reduce how much other cooking oils we use.

[@warrens.5933]

@@Mryodamiles Very interesting! thanks for the input!

[@jassonwebster3319]

Excellent reporting as usual. Thorough criticism of “the company” and not a single criticism of Cambodia’s authoritarian government…

[@user-cr7uf8bj8i]

Exactly what I thought so also, why blame the companies but not their own government who sold its own people out

[@stoonookw]

I mean I’d probably think of the Cambodian government as a lesser evil than said companies.

[@sounimoominous2577]

If you ever use a condom, rubber gloves, or bought a car. You are just as much at fault.

[@samt5663]

If they want to continue reporting then that topic is off limits.

[@Trgn]

Cambodia is what it is today thanks to tons of US bombs dropped and even US supporting of genocidal Polpot regime.

[@julesoxana3630]

As a fellow southeast asian my heart goes out to cambodian people,wishing them success and all the best🙏

[@QuangNguyen-iq4tt]

I'm Vietnamese, and I haven't known about this such awful and destructive activity of a Vietnam company. So sorry

[@mr.cc97]

Ita not ur country fault, its cambodia goverment fault

[@sovanreach7787]

My guy u are one odd vietnamese

[@addanametocontinue]

While I also find it difficult to hear about other Viets treating people in such a manner, just remember that this is how capitalism works. And capitalism doesn't care about race: it is driven by profits. If it wasn't a Vietnamese-based company doing this, it would be another company that the Cambodian government has sold away their citizen's lands to. On the one hand, you can't run build infrastructure if the only tax you collect are from farmers. You need more revenue to modernize the country. On the other hand, selling your country's natural resources to a foreign corporation doesn't ensure that the wealth is redistributed to your own country. It's a similar story with African countries: they can't seem to keep the the profits at home: they cater to outside companies who want to milk the resources.

[@Dayvit78]

I thought Hoang Anh Gia Lai only did real estate... but this shows that farmland is real estate too. Just like Bill Gates who bought a ton of farmland in the US. That's where the money is now.

[@hieunguyenrileygekko]

@@Dayvit78 HAGL đầu tư đa ngành, cứ ngành thấy thuận lợi đổ tiền không phải tự nhiên nó là công ty tỉ đô

[@elainec5801]

This breaks my heart for these people and animals. What a horrible world we live in.

[@Sandlin22]

🙄

[@한국권리침해폭로]

Asian country is like one bad people rule amount of good people and european country is like one good people lead amount of bad people..There always good people fight back bad people

[@orionfernandes4587]

Animals? I assume that was a mistake

[@elainec5801]

@@orionfernandes4587 Yes, animals - the man that has only two cows left stated that there is not enough grass left on his land for the cows to graze on, but plenty of grass in the land that was taken from them.

[@orionfernandes4587]

@@elainec5801 You can always feed the cow fodder

[@justindrake00]

$50??? This is heartbreaking

[@averageforzaplayer1048]

$50 can get you a lot of things there

[@averageforzaplayer1048]

@@jaybutnotreally That’s partially correct to me. Through trade, $50 is likely worth a lot more in small villages

[@HuiQiu-n1h]

@@averageforzaplayer1048 considering the amount of land they stole from the people, it would have valued so much more than 50$

[@Poshgardenherbs]

@@HuiQiu-n1h 🎯🎯🎯

[@Dayvit78]

@@averageforzaplayer1048 That's not enough to compensate for the land lost - the lost income from farmland. Sure you can buy food for $50, but you can't build a house, and it wouldn't even cover fertilizer on the smaller land for a year.

[@nhidang7991]

I am Vietnamese and I feel really sad to know this fact. I have heard about HAGL but never thought they would do such horrible things. I feel very sorry for the Cambodian people.😢

[@tinateews9494]

Sadly, this is exactly what's been happening in Laos. Khmu people in laos are the Indigenous people of Laos. But they lost their way of living with nature now everywhere in Laos is rubber plantations. Too many land grab and corruption in Laos is heart breaking.

[@ajdaprince22]

This Is so heartbreaking my prayers are with them to avoid starvation as best they can I hope the government helps them, for the ones who’s family members died May their souls Rest In Peace

[@leomartino8873]

Tires, handbags ,them nice shoes you want this is what your money is paying for we all need to be more careful in what company's we support

[@neighbor9672]

Straight up. Sneaker heads look even more stupid to me now lol.

[@ashtree3006]

How about a shift of thinking: what is it that actually fulfills me with sustainable satisfaction? It's connection to nature, my body, and to the hearts of other people.

[@angryalientv4964]

Look at the device you used to type this

[@leomartino8873]

Respect to you all its the little things but not everyone can see that I'm not mad at them ignorance is bliss am I kind of jealous of that

[@aash4688]

This oppression of Poors by Rich will never stopped from generations and is common in every country in some way

[@felipeaires8776]

It's so sad.

[@bltzcstrnx]

That just how it is, nature is a pyramid scheme. If you look at the food chain for example, it always form a pyramid. Where the strongest apex predators are the smallest population yet sit at the top.

[@S85B50Engine]

This is what happens when politicians do their thing, politicians can't sell favours they don't have the authority to sell.

[@skylarmickel]

My heart goes out to the Cambodian indigenous people I am part native American and I understand how secret Land is to indigenous people especially the places where we bury our dead. My prayers are with these people.

[@samwinchester7844]

You mean 'sacred' instead of 'secret' land.

[@skylarmickel]

@@samwinchester7844 yes Thank you!!! I hate autocorrect

[@newmind4850]

That's just how brown people and balck people are. Very grateful with mother earth.

[@pamplantsmn5879]

Even so, these companies would suffer serious consequences if they damaged cemeteries back at their own countries. These companies don’t operate with a shed of morality - they’ll abuse any opportunity they come across.

[@skylarmickel]

@@newmind4850 It does not have to do with the color of someone's skin many people from many backgrounds and cultures have a deep love for Mother Earth.

[@ElingKuatSlamet1903]

Masalah ini sama seperti yang kami alami di Indonesia. Perusahaan-perusahaan besar menghancurkan seluruh hutan untuk membuat kebun sawit dan karet. Masyarakat adat yang telah tinggal di hutan selama ratusan tahun kehilangan tanah dan kehidupan mereka. _This problem is the same as what we experienced in Indonesia. Big companies destroy entire forests to make oil palm and rubber plantations. Indigenous peoples who have lived in the forest for hundreds of years lost their lands and livelihoods._

[@adeyahya1593]

Yang di Indonesia ini tanahnya di curi juga gak? Soalnyakan disini di curi HAGL

[@ElingKuatSlamet1903]

@@adeyahya1593 orang2 Rimba di pedalaman Sumatera, kehilangan hutan leluhur mereka... begitu pula orang2 Dayak pedalaman kalimantan, tambang2 & perkebunan besar juga merusak alam & mata air

[@adeyahya1593]

@@ElingKuatSlamet1903 ohhh

[@rajanghamal3636]

I got all goosebumps while watching. Why do always common people have to go through this... In the name of investment this exploitation isn't acceptable.

[@rondotz8565]

the world bank is the one messing with the endigenous people…. you want people to get out of poverty but their hidden agenda is to make corrupt companies and politicians wallet fat!!

[@zitariri3097]

Curruption and dictatorships

[@thekhuonhonofficial]

Thanks so much for this reporting our true life in Cambodia, hope Business insider producing other content in our Country to show the world 🙏

[@alexgravenor]

Every one purchasing a product that uses this rubber should know this true cost. Great reporting. I only wish it could reach a wider audience

[@Sandlin22]

Everyone using a monitor or smart device to leave comments should know the true cost of the conflict minerals and slavery used to mine them.

[@warrentoles3127]

@@Sandlin22 haha I paid my fee too lol what else they got coming out next

[@Dayvit78]

What are you talking about? Rubber is a commodity. There is no "this rubber" or "that rubber." It all gets put together like oil. You can't say "don't buy Russian oil" because then someone else buys it and you buy the oil that other person bought before. Stop thinking in terms of brands.

[@Ilovethebush]

shame on Hagl, Thaco, Mazda, Peugot and BMW. The honourable thing to do is to give back the land, especially sacred burial grounds. It also appears that the traditional land holders may benefit from other farming methods, like crop stacking or companion planting to increase yields from small spaces. e.g sweet potatoes grow well with bananas, papayas, tomatoes, lemon grass and citrus trees. All with their roots intertwining.

[@TheRealCartman1]

You are so full of BS! So if a Indigenous group made a claim your home is on sacred ground you'd just leave? If you say yes then you're a liar, if you say no then shut it.

[@mr.restaurant2992]

That's odd. I've never noticed the True Cost series before, but it's so thought provoking! Hope you keep making things like this because knowledge like this actually helps me to make informed decisions as a consumer and an investor 😍🤑

[@nemesiszz]

so you are a investor in HAGL, mentioned here?

[@faustasofia308]

Man, this sucks. Things shouldn’t be like this. These vids break even my stone hard heart

[@catroll4247]

@zee why need a Job, when U can just farm and harvest your own food, as they did for generations. oh wait they cannot be independant cause they have no land!!

[@catroll4247]

@zee Sure that is an argument to force Someone into capitalism, to just take their Land, to be an Underpaid employee under harsh conditions, Yeah right Dude.

[@catroll4247]

@zee say that to the grandchildren's burial site who just got mawed over, dying the way you want to is better than to be forced, of course Statistics say that, but did you not see the Video? Did they get employed from that Vietnamese Company? No, will they get employed when they have to get into City? Probably a really low paid Job that gives you enough to survive but enough to live. You cannot decide how other have to live, it may be the statistically right thing to do but so highly unethical that i wanna puke.

[@cloutcobain123]

@zee yet they got their acres of land taken away for $50. You can stop defending them now.

[@moussechan5940]

Those guys made the price of rubber super high (2$ per kg) when i started planting my trees. So a lot of farmers invested and grown trees but they crushed the price to 0.5$ per kg when the rubber was flowing, farmers had to cut down their trees to sell wood just to make a living. And today they are baiting us to plant those worthless trees again by rising the price a little

[@jetfire245]

This stuff. No one talks about. I knew nothing of this before the video. Happy to learn about the injustice.

[@debbiehenri345]

Hope everyone remembers this next time they're excited about an upcoming holiday abroad or motor race. To think, that so many humans go crazy for things like scrambling, dirt bike racing & endurance, drag racing, Formula 1, etc - right down to those teens/twenty-somethings who drive round and round their home towns like loonies, doing burn-outs and doughnuts often for no reason than to show off to their easily impressed friends. It would be far better for these companies to try and 'reclaim' land in suitable desert regions, build a water desalination system and pipe in irrigation, growing these trees in areas where nothing currently grows - providing jobs for locals. We humans always take shortcuts however, and it's not ending well in so many ways.

[@hibiki9380]

I like Nascar hopefully I could go again to see one next year.

[@Mryodamiles]

Most tires are made from synthetic rubber (petroleum-based). This is especially true in western countries. High-performance tires used in these races are for sure synthetic rubber. Very unlikely to see natural rubber.

[@dansands8140]

Not taking shortcuts costs money. You wouldn't like the cost of living without the innumerable shortcuts we take.

[@azuthal]

@@Mryodamiles i literally make rubber for tires as a living and we use more natural rubber than we do synthetic rubber, most of the poundage comes from natural rubber.

[@Yashuop]

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[@dertythegrower]

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[@averageforzaplayer1048]

@@dertythegrower he’s verified somehow

[@gokuljosh1186]

Rubber tree is grown in an interlaced pattern, so vegetables can be grown in between each line of trees. In this particular case, what their governments did is not fair, but it's likely that government owned that land and now decided not to let residents farm there. The 3.2 acres thats left with him seems to be not maintained well, rice fields in my area looks different, even if he is using that land for growing vegetables now, it's too crowded with weeds and not maintained well. Not sure why no elected representative stood up for this issue.

[@sekar9901]

I don't think the vegetables will have enough sunlight because the dense canopy.

[@gokuljosh1186]

@@sekar9901 my family owns rubber plantation, inter cropping in rubber plantation is common. There are plants and vegetables that grow well in rubber plantation and they do aid each other's growth.

[@chillidog1239]

Is the soil good enough to grow vegetables?

[@gokuljosh1186]

@@chillidog1239 i dont remember correctly, but rubber tree releases nitrate or something in to soil which is used by vegetables grown in this inter cropping. Rubber tree is grown in parallel lines with significant gap, this gap is used for inter cropping. And it's a profitable business, even if one doesn't own rubber plantation, the charge to be paid for tapping each tree is a great margin.

[@chillidog1239]

@@gokuljosh1186 Thanks for the reply, really helpful :)

[@johnnykwon8173]

My dad went on mission there. That was one of the wealthiest regions of the world at one time. Such a short window of prosperity now sad to see that people will say they got what they deserve. True, it was at one time the best region for opium production and with that came the temperance crusades that fought long and hard against them. I think they got a bum deal looking at their circumstances now. They could benefit from some quarries there. Their “spirit mountain” could be enshrined elaborately to bring back the luster of generations past.

[@amaionnaise]

My heart goes out to farmers like this person. They are suffering because of what the rubber plantations are doing. These farmers are an inspiration, truly and my heros

[@aaron4820]

This video simultaneously showed how cold blooded the rubber corporations and the government are, but also how hopelessly behind the indigenous people are in terms of the efficiency of their production. The main issue here is the compensation is far too low and it's likely achieved through violence or threat of violence, in an ideal wonderland situation, they should have remained as rightful owners of the land but have the corporation lease the land from them. That way the land is off to better use, and the indigenous people are also better off.

[@ebubeawachie]

This shows the lack of education of the people and the greed of the government. The people should have been told to get titles for their land from the government then lease to the companies and pay tax to the government. But the government essentially grabbed the land and leased it themselves. They do not know what destruction they’re doing to the indigenous people. Story of Asia and Africa. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[@paschalg3176]

Stop buying car

[@isaacmancini3957]

It's not the government or corporation but it's man's insatiable greed.

[@siddharthgoyal4008]

no it's not govt or corporations, they are doing what people want. It's the insatiable need for more and more consumer goods.

[@joshward7009]

they likely would not have given up all their land even to lease. that would make them unable to do all of the things they have always done with the remainder of the land, and would also still completely devastate the landscape

[@filmmakermama]

I truly hope they get their land back. It is their right. I am sick of big companies bullying innocent people.

[@ceeril]

Vietnamese (VN) here, HAGL is really a shady corporation, but their owner/founder Duc helped develop football industry which always has been VN's national sport from the beginning, so the VN people & state gov feel thankful to him, the media rarely reports negative stuff about HAGL in general. One of VN's biggest stock exchanges - HOSE is planning to delist HAGL due to their current debts, the environmental situation in Cambodia & Laos is just a minor scandal.

[@kenny-q8m-t2u]

A minor scandal GTOH🤣🤣🤣

[@trankhai5107]

Anh ơi, dịch tiếng Việt dùm em nghe với. Em nghe mà không hiểu gì. Em.cảm ơn anh Huy Vu

[@hp4415]

Hagl might not be the most ethical company but the cambodia government is just as fault. We don’t know what is going on behind close door, the cambodia government might just claim its government land. Im sure hagl doesn’t just go to cambodia and clear out the land without the cambodia government’s permission

[@duytanangnguyen864]

@@trankhai5107 bài này theo mình biết đang nói về việc tạo ra các nông trường cao su. Sự hợp tác giữa HAGL và cp Campuchia đẩy người dân dẫn đến mất ruộng.

[@pentiuminside1234]

báo chí Việt Nam cần nhảy vào làm rõ việc này, HAGL, Thaco kinh doanh phi đạo đức thế này sao?

[@cyberlord64]

I ain't gonna lie. I am 35, and just today did I learn that rubber actually grows on trees. I thought it was synthesized from oil like plastic!

[@mattitude4464]

It's about 50/50

[@patrickbateman1660]

Business insider is doing important work exposing modern day imperialism even if they don't realise it.

[@mikeylikesit1581]

I could see why they're scared based on their history so sad. I hope the best for them, and they get MORE than that puny percentage of land back 🙏🏽

[@saymiaweow]

in simple home, in struggling life, there is love seed for their children's happiness

[@twodeepupyours508]

The cold reality of situations like this is: the land is the indigenous people's opportunity to survive, when these company's come and buy the people's opportunity to live, the people need to take that money and move to a new place, but when they stay and don't move, after the money runs out they starve, and they don't seem to understand the how the deal works. It's heartbreaking.

[@odinrothschild4249]

Indeed as you said. But one of the problems is right in the footage. He mentioned it, those graveyards... The grave of his son, his parents, brothers and sisters. Unlike us, they buried the passed in their land, and cant move them due to religious reason. So they cant just leave...

[@twodeepupyours508]

@@odinrothschild4249 Great point

[@Sandlin22]

Everybody complaining in the comments trying to sound virtuous will still use rubber and willingly benefit from the usage of rubber at the same rate before they left their comment 🤷‍♂️

[@Mylifesuckslol]

You will too people rely on products

[@ricoh881227]

Its just another day of tragic story of rural people getting copped out by the government.. Thats why its important to have elected people that protects indigenous people's right..

[@nicko9969]

Shocking to see more greedy capitalism in foreign countries, as an Australian, I feel so privileged . I wish I could do more to help people, in these types of situations. Makes me sad.

[@MustAfaalik]

@Nicky. Me too. Helping the underprivileged through KIVA has helped me to help others. May you be well & happy.

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[@김-p4o7y]

When i visited Philippines and came in Visayas some local showed me how they do this and i promise y’all forget about any type of perfume once the smell stick in ur body it won’t come out even if you take a bath. It smells so worst specially if it’s already quite solid.

[@sasa-dv7zz]

As long as humans expand the more resources needed. Humans just dont live for basic needs but also materialistic. Many live the way they want at the expense of the another.

[@thegreataynrand7210]

Not true, in many places more is being grown with less land. It's just that these places don't have the latest in agriculture technology and techniques.

[@Berzaman]

It is hito hito no mi after all...

[@dylainchiv1169]

Cambodia 🇰🇭 is now getting some recognition and the struggles of the Khmer people

[@lazyles875]

They robbed him.😢

[@Rihardololz]

i rather say bamboozled since he took the cash.

[@Sena-zf7ij]

This is heart rending. The one thing I hate most is destroying the jungles for whatever reasons. Destroying the natural habitat is not good. It's cynical. If one would ask me, "What would you do if you had a huge land of your own?", I would say that, " I will grow forest in some of it and will create small lakes." Even if it is barren land, I will make it lush green. It takes years to do that but the love I have for nature will let me do it with compassion and dedication.

[@kennguyen6802]

The business of this company is going so bad, they are nearly to be banned from the stock exchange market in Vietnam. Karma comes back so quickly

[@distortedinfo]

they need someone to go and show them how to grow market gardens. they need more modern permaculture practices to farm more efficiently.

[@carlosnino6476]

I think this was the government fault. Most likely those lands were passed thro their ancestors but never bought or registered for many reasons(maybe they weren’t able to do so in the first place). The government BEFORE selling land to the companies they needed to first check them and see which ones were really empty/not used by community and work with them to register their lands before XX/XX/XXXX date, and all lands not registered after that date would be free to be sold to foreign companies. Selling them without bothering to check on them is borderline inhumane when you know so many people on the country side don’t have any other alternatives to feed themselves, they are letting them to die in plain sight

[@qifry5367]

money bro

[@y6ixcory594]

Not only Cambodian suffers from this rubber plantation.I’m from Cameroon 🇨🇲 and it’s a lot worst here cause it’s own by the government so most of the government lands are either occupied by rubber plantations or palm trees and yet we get the least of products in our country as they are being shipped out for sale to other countries…people suffer out living in camps working in the company with little or no payments and the exposure of mosquitoes as malaria happens to be one of the deadliest of the many diseases they are exposed to…..I’m glad to see this up cause I grew in one of the camps here in Cameroon known as the MISELELE RUBBER PLANTATION it was a crazy experience that I’m glad to make it out but thousands of children are stock in theses camps without good school and good knowledge far worst than a refugee camps

[@gopi1809]

Where there is corruption there is broken hearts 50 $ great politicians we should give them Nobel prize to them for their hard work in notions economics

[@bachvandals3259]

The government has no real power to dealt with the lawlessness of such peoples, they refused to pay taxes and registered the land despite continuously leeching off governmental aid refusing education and rampant boycott of family planning, why does the men in the documentary has no paperwork for "his" land when everyone else around him did? They cant just assumed that the forest will endlessly replenish for their endless population growth, that food aid, medical attention and road building is "government's duty". And as you can see, when all the local developers has been "protested and kicked out" by bigoted nationalism, white peoples came in, Thaco corps can now squeeze out the lands with cheap prices and all the goodness NGOs disappeared into thin air, with not a single complaint since 2019, IDI committee now suddenly became "unable to help".

[@mr.cc97]

@@bachvandals3259 i am from indonesia, our family has 3 ha rubber plant all have paper, we are know tires is very expensive, do you know rubber is cheap, here is just 0.5 dollar

[@bachvandals3259]

@@mr.cc97 white mens smiling on ours suffering to fill their own pockets.

[@mr.cc97]

@@bachvandals3259 nah itsnot about whiteman but our businessman, who offer cheap price

[@SP-ny1fk]

Thank you Business Insider.

[@Mr.Lateralus]

This has made my heart hardened even worse because of these big corporations such as these big name vehicle companies. I am now going to be very careful what I buy or invest in. These are people.... These are people who have intrinsic value... I have been working towards living off-grid with my family. We are planning to abandon certain products that have been massed produced such as our phones, cars, etc... all for the cost of these people's lives and their loss... Shame...Shame on people who are ignorant about these things... This needs to be taught, shown, exposed everywhere...

[@id_emotion]

I had no idea that car tyres use natural rubber. I recently had mine replaced, but I asked to keep the old tyres to use as planters for garden vegetables. Now, I want to get more old tyres to recycle and give them a new life

[@thegreataynrand7210]

It's best your old tires go for energy production like in cement plants.

[@josephbernard5240]

Tires are more than just rubber, it’s also steel for the belting. The rubber is heated with additives so it can resist heat and friction. Lots of used tires go to cement factories as well as asphalt companies since the molten rubber makes a great binder

[@genghiskhan6809]

At first I was wondering why the hell they had to basically lease land from the government, then I remembered Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

[@povpooh]

and your point is ?

[@genghiskhan6809]

@@povpooh I was confused as to how they didn’t just own their own land already or as to why the Government had the power to just overrule local communities in how land is used because in the US where I’m from, land is either privately owned by an individual, or publicly owned by the local community, both statuses which are protected by the principle of “eminent domain” which prevents the higher levels of government(both federal, state, and local) from just doing anything they want without your consent.

[@povpooh]

@@genghiskhan6809 okay and could you elaborate on why you said “then I remembered Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge”?

[@genghiskhan6809]

@@povpooh No reason further than I wanted to type out an “oh yeah” moment I had when watching the video.

[@worldcitizeng6507]

Malaysia is one of the major rubber producers in the world for many generations. The main concern in Malaysia is over growing plum trees for oil plam

[@Caramel-sy5fx]

Wheels win

[@josuazeroo2011]

I used to help my grandpa in a plantation. I remember that he got paid around $0.50 per kg... And that was when the price for rubber is quite high in the market.

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[@davinci3379]

Such a sad story, more power to the people cmon !! Great video Insider, well done, thank you.

[@kadplan2160]

HOANG ANH GIA LAI! You must answer for the injustice that befell on these poor locals. You are denying opportunity of a human to grow and prosper as well.

[@darker6328]

Yeah then don't use any rubber lol

[@KSRubberIndustries]

We recycle single use plastic bags and reclaimed rubber, then turn them into synthetic rubber sheets. Each year we recycle more than 500 metric tons of plastic bags and reclaimed rubber footwear.

[@KevinNguyen-zn4vv]

A sad reality, blame it on the corrupt government officials who signed the lease documents in return for cash. Don't blame it on the investors because they legally leased it from your country. The ones these people should protest against are the ones who sold their country for cash.

[@senpaij3tro725]

I work in a Rubber parts manufacturing factory here in Japan., most raw rubber, are thrown away, like for example 20kgs of raw rubber, we only use mostly 18-19kgs and the products that are made mostly have 15kgs of raw rubber used on it, more than 3-5kgs of rubber are thrown as waste and cant be recycled.

[@toithetoikotremkemma9477]

As a Vietnamese, I think that the Cambodian government is wrong. The reason for this is just a lack of communication between the government and the locals. HAGL did nothing wrong, they paid for the land with their own money and why do they have to give it back? If the lands belong to the locals, the Cambodian government shouldn't sell them in the first place.

[@helmholtzthemulewatson4763]

Why do you have to give back stolen things? In case a thing that people literally need in order to feed themselves. I think the answer is pretty obvious.

[@kamjames8664]

Oh man this was so sad. I was not expecting these feelings this morning

[@giantlabs]

The tree plantation is far more productive use of the land than what the indigenous people are getting out of it. The government should instead use earnings from these plantations help those people. It's a net benefit to everyone.

[@chickensoup9869]

Not true. The plantations don't have good soil so the soil doesn't absorb as much water as typical rainforest soil would during rainy season, ergo, causing flash floods in area of plantations.

[@ZOCCOK]

The World Bank was investing money into a rubber producing company to reduce poverty in 3rd world countries despite the fact that the same company was responsible for the poverty in the country 😂

[@nunyabiznes33]

It's like the literal banana republics in Latin America.

[@adammckay852]

Sad how difficult progress can be in third world countries, the old traditions and indigenous cultures clashing with the inevitability of advanced people. Its sad whats happening but the guy telling us his 15 year old son and grandchildren were dead doeant spell an amazing quality of life pre plantation either

[@zZech111]

This is so heartbreaking… all we can do is spread awareness and boycott this big corporations😔💔

[@spencer1980]

"3/4 of the land was sold to foreign companies" Empires are no longer measured by the borders of a nation. They're measured by private and corporate land holdings. Colonialism never ended, it just went corporate.

[@cauchyschwarz3295]

Precisely! And how beautiful it is for our corporate overlords that they are not bound to the fate of any particular nation. Workers demand more? They move. The land is devastated? There are still countries left to ravage. Hiding their intentions behind hollow phrases of liberalism and freedom. Freedom to exploit those who can't defend themselves

[@PigRipperLAW]

If they had weapons they wouldn’t have to beg for scrapes of what was always theirs.

[@dianeruiz0721]

The Americans did the same exact things to the Native American Indians. Nothing different here. Big banks and corporations with money, funding projects that benefit the rich, and exploit the poor.

[@Aubarino]

I feel like this video is demoted by the algorithm cause of the 58 views it has, And honestly that's Disgusting that youtube has made this video get basically no views. This needs more views

[@squa_81]

Sir, it is now 7k

[@samwinchester7844]

Did you notice the date this video was posted?

[@lorenzoblum868]

More views and less people driving and wasting precious resources.

[@Bromand01]

Hats off to insider for the brave report!

[@fella9293]

It so suffer to seen this kind of video as a Cambodian. Northeast of Cambodia was controlling by Vietnam and any other location. That both company is Vietnamese company. It sad but it was true. Cambodia government is a puppet of Vietnam. Don't wonder why u see a lot of Vietnamese in Cambodia. We, as a Cambodian have had enough with losing our land to Vietnam.

[@thucaoinh8451]

Hi there, I'm a Vietnamese and believe me, I can totally understand your feeling as my country has been invaded for thousands of years untill today by China, France, the US, you name it. So as a matter of fact, if you look at any other countries you'll see the same thing. Invasion has been inevitable through human cillization. That said, I do not say that VN is doing that sort of thing in your country. I'm just talking about mutual interests here. Historically speaking, there were fights and also assistance in both country. Today, things keep going on. If you truely desire to strengthen Cambodia, then study, work and contribute more to your country, it's the only way.

[@fella9293]

@@thucaoinh8451 I respect your opinion. That is not your fault but my government.

[@tanangnguyenduy8852]

I'm sorry to hear that. I thought company's my country will help people get a lot of jobs before watching this video :((. HAGL is bad corporation in VN

[@alparslankorkmaz2964]

Nice video

[@Colorado-Coyote]

😥

[@scarletfrances5004]

What a Sad story. Thank u for sharing this to make us aware.

[@buckshot6481]

I think Pol Pot was a little more destructive to Cambodia than a rubber tree.

[@Reppo80085]

Lmao you don't know? The current rulers on Cambodian are PolPot hickeys most of them...and yes, the Prime Minister too 🤣👌🏼

[@Lords1997]

Now you need to make a follow up video. See what’s actually changed, if anything. Or even a separate one confronting the politicians/corporations responsible

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[@sadiyajatty2003]

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[@petergriffin9902]

This is a scam

[@self-employed259]

How?@@petergriffin9902

[@petergriffin9902]

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[@self-employed259]

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[@ERROR_5025]

It’s really hard job in Cambodia 🇰🇭 but this type of Resin is really really dirt cheap because of local merchant lower prices or upper prices is up to them 🙁

[@SCRT]

I wish a happy day to everyone who found my comment lol stay safe ❤️

[@mastersplinter5966]

Ehh I dunno, I'm a realist.

[@maosaven3816]

Thank you for sharing this story

[@87togabito]

Land is a scarce resource. If you fail to maximise its use, others will use it for you. I feel sorry for ya, but that’s just how it is. Here, in my country, burials are only given a timeframe of 10 years, before it’s (respectfully) exhumed to be cremated. That’s just how life is. The spirit mountain and burial site is, sorry, less important that the finance that it can produce for the country.

[@FearOgre]

POHR

[@BABALOOEY46]

Little clue, it wasn’t the car tyres that displaced them. It was the greed…

[@JackCarregan]

They took 1/3 of his land and compensated him. Subsistence farming has been ineffective for the last 400 years. Why would you defend and say that such people should be left alone? Why not help them to get 10x or more yield on the same land.

[@leahiddlebarnes]

They got the equivalent of 50$ for their land. 🙃 Indigenous communities live off nature. Their culture revolves around foraging, you might think its weird and what poor people do. Hell even here in my area, we live off what we have in our backyard. Unlike westerners who are too lazy and entitled that even the vegetables they buy off the stores are already peeled off for them, the fishes are already cut and they are too lazy to bother how their greediness affects the rest of the world. Guess, who are the biggest consumers in all the continents? USA

[@conradmcdougall3629]

@@leahiddlebarnes Maybe their culture sucks. Maybe they should try to grow more food with less land like we do here in the west. It's called being innovative. If I choose to pay more to have my fruit peeled, that's my business. I worked hard and smart for the money I make. There is a reason why the west is the best. We invented almost everything that YOU use daily.

[@FearOgre]

@@conradmcdougall3629 POHR

[@antony.thomas]

I don’t know how much more money does these big corporations need? Million more? Billon more ? Trillion more? Numbers can just go on for ever. I wish and pray that the local people get back their land soon.

[@faristasairuv5143]

More people need to watch this.

[@biswobigrajsunuwar8365]

I always appreciate to video editor who did this. Amazing work, BTW which software was used?

[@fadiliik8402]

The same situation happens in Indonesia. A lot of lands belong to indigenous people are taken.