Posted on 09/18/2004 4:06:40 PM PDT by neverdem
Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Stomach cancer racks Xiao Junhai, 57, who drinks from a local stream polluted by an MSG factory.
Industrial Pollution Destroys Fish Farms in Rural Region of China
Amid China's Boom, No Helping Hand for Young Qingming
So much for the Communist Party's worker paradise.
Isn't China (as well as India) exempt from the "Kyoto Accord"?
This seems right up their alley.
Yeah, I wonder. Where's the outrage?
It is ALL George Bush's fault!
CBS has documented it for decades!
Dan Rather with film at eleven.
I believe those countries, and most of the undeveloped world, are not covered by the restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions in the Kyoto Accords.
LOL!
> So much for the Communist Party's worker paradise.
And I'll bet the NYT was devastated to discover that since
the polluting factory seems to be making products for the
domestic Mordor market, they couldn't even blame greedy
American out-sourcers and importers.
In fact, the NYT had no real advocacy at all, which is
hardly surprising since everything they usually propose
is actually either at cause here, or failing to fix it.
And nothing will be done until Party members start dying
in great numbers.
Maybe there's a job for Edwards post-election after all.
The NYT would have you belive the pollution is the result of the market place and the Red Chiniese are just innocent victums... To clean up China you first have to clean out the Communist.
Wang Lincheng failed to note the houses of the cancer victims were all under the high tension electrical lines.
Having been to mainland China, I will parrot this article.
Hong Kong is usually smogged in when you fly in.
The rest of the mainland is worse.
There are no pollution controls whatsoever. Factories will purge whatever they need to into the water, air or whatever. no one cares.
Whenever I hear a greenie in the US whine about us, I think about China. The US IS not the problem. China and India are belching the most filth into the sky. The USA has long since added the neccessary filters.
-Mal
Its the Tragedy of the Commons.
With 1.5 billion people, what do the ChiCom leaders care if a few million die, and the sources of food and water for many millions more are poisoned.
Exactly, the people have no property rights, so they have no claim or courts to protect their property. They have their Communist leadership to protect them.
Workers' paradises have always been the worst polluters because the polluters, the smelters, the coal/nuclear power plants, the manufacturers, all are owned by the people...the government. Unlike relatively free economies, the government conspires with polluters, rather than regulates them.
It was so in the USSR; it was so in Eastern Europe; so it is in China. If Cuba did anything else beside tobacco, cane, and bananas, it would be a major polluter, I am sure.
SO9
You need to read P.J. O'Rourke's All The Trouble in The World.
His chapters on pollution in the Eastern Bloc are hilarious despite their horror--they end with the quote "I've got some bad news about the [guard] dogs."
Someone needs to post side-by-side maps of Mordor and China. Where would Barad-Dur be?
A year's income is $500 but it costs $250 to put 2 kids in school? Are there fall school fees, too? Another $250? A full year's wages for school?
Why do I think this story is not accurate?
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