There are many cities in Africa that have followed the pace of economic globalization and are on the road to prosperity. Nairobi, kenya's capital, is a fast-growing city.
The faster a city grows, the more problems accompany it. The gap between the rich and the poor in Nairobi is extremely large, and it is gradually showing a trend of polarization. The rich live a life of luxury, while the poor cannot even feed themselves.
Young people in Nairobi's slums see no hope and are gradually degenerating. Started smoking glue and fuel, and became more and more addictive. What exactly is there in glue and gasoline that makes young people in Africa so addicted?
Zombie City
Nairobi is one of the largest cities in Africa and one of the leading and most modern cities in Africa. As the capital of Kenya, Nairobi is undoubtedly a cosmopolitan metropolis. High-rise buildings and busy traffic. But behind Nairobi's prosperity, it is wrapped in decay.
In the center of Nairobi, there is a slum called Kibera, which is only 2.4 square kilometers in size, but it is inhabited by 100,000 people. Kibera also became the largest slum in Africa.
Compared to the prosperity of other areas in Nairobi, Kibera is like a purgatory on earth, with houses made of tin stacked at random, crooked and twisted, as if they could be dumped at any time. The roads are muddy, mosquitoes are plentiful, and the streets are littered with garbage.
The young man on the street held a plastic bottle in his hand and kept sucking it. One by one, their eyes were empty and their behavior was strange. A sluggish look.
Children born in the kibera slums see no hope for life from an early age. Every day they are confronted with garbage brought from elsewhere, mountains of garbage piled up.
From the moment they learn to walk, they play in the garbage heap. Older children, in order to supplement the family, have to go to the garbage mountain every day to pick up garbage. Sometimes they don't pick up anything of value for a day. You can only starve.
Endless garbage and daily starvation often make the youth and children here languish.
Glue pie
The children who were picking up garbage in the garbage heap inadvertently found a yellow liquid in a bottle. After smelling the smell of this liquid, the whole person will become extremely excited and energetic.
This gas can even make them forget about hunger and pain. It was as if the whole person was in heaven. Soon the yellow liquid became popular throughout the slums, with almost every young man holding a bottle.
This yellow liquid is actually ordinary industrial glue. But here it has become something that people can't stop. Why do these children become addicted to glutinous water? In fact, they are not addicted to glue, but addicted to toluene in glue.
Toluene is a volatile, colorless organic solvent. It inhibits the central nervous system to give people a sense of pleasure. It is often used in glues, paints and dyes.
Faced with a hopeless future, in the face of daily hunger, these children in Africa want a moment of pleasure. So smoking glue is popular here, and there are many children who are addicted to it.
Toluene is a toxic substance and does not cause harm if inhaled in small amounts. However, if it is smoked for a long time, it will inhibit the hematopoietic function of the bone marrow and induce blood diseases. And a large amount of smoking, it is very easy to cause acute poisoning or sudden death. Long-term use of glue is particularly detrimental to good health.
a fuel school
The momentary pleasure of smoking glue is increasingly unable to satisfy the children in the slums. They found something new that would bring them joy, and that was jet fuel.
Why aviation fuel, not ordinary fuel? This is to say the particularity of aviation fuel.
Aircraft tend to fly at altitudes of several kilometers, and as the altitude rises, the temperature drops. To prevent the fuel from freezing at low temperatures. Antifreeze is added to aviation fuel. This allows the aircraft to fly normally at high altitudes.
The main component of this antifreeze is ethylene glycol. Glycol is a toxic substance with a sweet taste, drinking a small amount will not be poisoned to death, it will not bring people a pleasant feeling, but it is very addictive.
Another substance in aviation fuel is aromatic hydrocarbons, which are stupid and can also inhibit the central nervous system and bring people spiritual pleasure. The combination of glycol and aromatic hydrocarbons produces a gas that is more addictive to people than the gas produced by glue.
The same combination of ethylene glycol and aromatic hydrocarbons produces a gas that is also very harmful to the human body. Long-term smoking is very easy to cause death.
Aviation fuel is expensive and hard to come by. Aviation fuel in Nairobi is also more expensive than glue, but for a better spiritual experience. There are still many young people who are desperate to take risks and go to the airport to steal oil. Even selling aviation fuel in Nairobi has become an industrial chain.
The poverty of life, the poverty of spirit, makes the children in these slums, unable to see hope, all day long beg for life. Coupled with the lack of good guidance from adults, children here are becoming more and more addicted to glue and aviation fuel.
Poverty often causes problems, and these children in Africa are unconsciously degenerating.
Fortunately, we live in a peaceful and prosperous China. At least the children no longer endure hunger, and everyone can read, even if they live a little poorer, but can see the hope of life.