Eh, this might be a bit much... There comes a point where hugging a tree isn't such a bad thing--provided it doesn't fall over and die in the process.
Posted on 07/27/2008 2:51:36 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
According to CNN, the World Bank recently examined 20 of the most severely polluted cities in the world. Sixteen of these cities are located in China, and Linfen City, in Shanxi Province, was cited as the world's most polluted city.
Apple Daily reported that factories in Linfen continuously release waste gas and sewage. The whole city smells and is covered in smoke. The trees around the factories are all withered. The polluted water is like thick oil, and the polluted rivers have caused a higher incidence of cancer among citizens living in the area.
One environmental expert said, "If you have a grudge against someone, let this guy become a permanent citizen of Linfen! Why? For punishment!"
(Excerpt) Read more at en.epochtimes.com ...
And we buy the products that are made there.
So much for the worker’s paradise; suffering previously under unbridled communism, now suffering under unbridled capitalism, with communist party control remaining in place. Where’s a religious or union group asking for relief for the worker? I forgot, they’re illegal. Oh well, enjoy your cheap, slave labor Chinese made goods, America.
Where’s algore?
Wasn't the author just a little curious about what exactly was made there?
That’s what happens when you don’t have tree huggers in your nation. :)
June 10, 2006?
That’s too late of a news article..but I;m thinking 2 years later, it’s Beijing who take the crown for most polluted. Love em commies!
We were promised by Bush the First and his supporters that America would trade up to higher paying robotic (technology based) manufacturing to compete with inefficient foreign cheap human labor. How come we don't have such manufacturing. I blame the Republicans and Democrats as they each in their own way cash in on Globalism. I don't care if China sinks in its own cess pool. I want America to retain manufacturing power.
> And we buy the products that are made there.
Only food, vitamins and medicine.
The Global Hot Air Quiz
1. Is the climate really changing unnaturally?
2. If so, is it human caused?
3. If so, can anything humans do, now reverse that?
4. If so, is there any chance whatsoever of getting the PRC to do so?
The PRC will agree to everything, and do the opposite.
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FR readers know this.
Does McCain?
Agreed; we continue to decline into an incredibly weak position with dwindling manufacturing capabilities, especially in times of potentially heightened war. You’re from the Northeast where arms and other production continue to erode; I’m from the Midwest, where heavy steel production around the Great Lakes is now a sliver of what it once was. How do produce wartime materiel when you’ve shipped all manufacturing overseas? I forgot, the Chinese will glady create our needed wartime products, especially if we’re at war with them.
Ain't that the truth?!
There is a lot of irony in your statement. the worst environmental offenses take place in communist and socialist country's
But the greens are anti capitalism
Thats the price of progress. At least the govt. isn`t regulating industry and interrupting in profits. Who wants nutty eco-loons interfering with progress and profits?
Hey Al here’s a challenge for you, instead of nutering our industry and killing our economy with your global warming scam see how far you get in China.
There’s a tank with your name on it!
neutering, now I feel better
But it`s a capitalistic paradise! Just think of it. No whacky environmental restrictions.
Linfen’s carbon footprint is 1,500 times that of the five boroughs of NYC combined. Yet the Chinese get a total pass from the global warming nazis.
If you do a search engine on this city, every news article, link, and image will mention pollution. Yet the free traders want us to buy their products and the militant environmentalists always blame the United States.
I guess you weren't around when the USSR was in business. Vast stretches of your profitless empire looked like Mordor. Communist states are the worst ever, and "Progress and Profits" don't even figure into it. In a free market, growing economy, unhindered by the tragedy of the commons, people clean up their own messes -- because they can afford to, and because they like it that way.
Like the USSR of the recent past, China is full of toxic sh*tholes exactly because nobody owns the property being fouled. They could afford to start cleaning this sh*t up but they don't-- the State has other priorities-- despite thousands of protests by the people.
That's nothing... let me know when it catches on fire then we'll talk...
Maybe the Global Warming Nazis should take a guided tour of beautiful downtown Linfen.
http://katara.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/polluted1.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/96434059@N00/856693325/
http://davegoblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/vapi.jpg
i don't know how far apart these pictures were supposed to of be taken, but... the white SUV under the sign in the lower right corner is the same in both pictures.
“In a free market, growing economy, unhindered by the tragedy of the commons, people clean up their own messes — because they can afford to, and because they like it that way.”
Not quite sure I follow you. Do you mean the citizens of a town are responsible for cleaning up the mess an industry in that town makes?
“Like the USSR of the recent past, China is full of toxic sh*tholes exactly because nobody owns the property being fouled. They could afford to start cleaning this sh*t up but they don’t— the State has other priorities— despite thousands of protests by the people.”
But protests don`t always work. An industry powerful and rich enough can ignore the protests. And I agree the Chinese govt. does`nt give a rip about how much damage their industries cause. One reason our companies move to China is because there are`nt any environmental regulations on them. They can do as they please. Poison the air, the water, it makes no difference to them as long as they can make a bigger profit.
My first two posts were sarcastic in nature because I was just trying to make a point about unbridaled capitalism.
Ah, the things that can be done with PhotoShop.
yup... either one pic is early in the morning before it's completely smogged in, or it's been shopped.
Don’t know if this is or is not photoshopped...may just be a different camera angle or time. Having said that, having been to China many times this is not unusual...especially in the winter when the coke is burning...
Here’s some more news out of China.
Actually, if you look at the list of most polluted cities, Russia still does quite well in terms of proliferation of toxic sh!tholes. :)
Between those two, you’ve got all kinds of fun. It’s like stampede of carbon spiders went for a marathon. :P Yeehaw!
Either way, there are plenty of other photos depicting the beauty of scenic Linfen. :P
Power generation in Linden is mostly from coal fired plants. No mention made of the quality of the coal, but no scrubbers are seen in the pictures.
The city uses district wide heating, which can be an efficient method of heating with modern furnaces. I would presume that Linden does NOT have modern furnaces. District heating is common in large cities especially in the North. More common in Europe and Russia than the US. (I think that Minot AFB utilized some district heating.)
Residential heating not part of the district scheme likewise seems to be coal, coal and more coal.
So we have a large Chinese city managed by Communists who have no incentive or interest in spending the money to become a cleaner city, while industrialization is feeding high growth rates in the city.
Capitalists in England and in the early US industrialization were not the cleanest of sorts, but capitalism (after much pushing and screaming) forced the West to clean up their act and spend the money to become clean.
No other mention that I can see of the CAUSES of this pollution.
Maybe the World Bank and its Greens should relocated from Switzerland to Linden China. Should certainly make the annual anarchists demonstrations much more exciting.
ah yes, beautiful downtown Linfen... take the Schlosson Cutoff.
They also have a horrible record in the area of coal mine safety, or lack thereof.
>>>And we buy the products that are made there.
Just like people would buy products from Pittsburgh when it was a choking industrial cloud.
Thank you! That was fascinating-and heart-wrenching.
See http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/world/20080722dy01.htm
From an article. “The price for some condominiums in Beijing has begun to plummet, and it appears the economic bubble caused by the Olympics is coming to an end. Even more serious is the situation on the stock market. The Shanghai Stock Exchange’s composite index continues to fall after hitting a record-high close of 6,092.06 in October. Thursday’s closing price was 2,684.78, a 56 percent drop from October’s peak.”
So much for the Chinese economy being so great. Looks to me like the Wal-Mart negotiators are driving Chinese companies into bankruptcy.
I believe any learned man should have their own thoughts and senses. CNN is just a swindler. I am so surprised that so much innocent people still believe it.
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