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They should give Al Gore a call. Maybe he could do a slide show on it.

Where’s Michael Moore whan you need a real expose’?

He's noticed and he's on the case. Maybe he will move over there so he can focus on this like a laser beam.

Gore: China in for More Pressure on Pollution
23rd June 2007
The West Australian

China’s emergence as the world’s biggest polluter will intensify the pressure it feels from the rest of the world to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, climate campaigner Al Gore says.

Figures released this week showed that China might already have overtaken the US as the biggest emitter of the main gas, carbon dioxide.

“I think that when China is recognised as the largest emitter — it may have happened this week or it may happen next year — it will produce a subtle but significant change in the pressure China feels from the rest of the world to be part of a solution to this crisis,” he said. “But in order to apply that moral pressure, the United States has to join the world’s efforts to solve the crisis. That is why I am spending so much time spending every effort to reach a political critical mass to solve the climate crisis.”

Mr Gore was in London on Wednesday to promote his Live Earth 24-hour concert next month estimated to reach two billion people in every continent, which has been criticised by stars including Roger Daltry and Bob Geldof.

Declining to criticise Geldof, whose advice he claimed to have taken, Mr Gore said it was a “wake up call” that would deliver “powerful messages about the climate crisis” and be “the beginning of a multi-year campaign”.

It will have simple messages like the slogans at the end of his film, An Inconvenient Truth — change lightbulbs, don’t waste water, don’t leave things on standby, drive a more efficient car.

“It will be something people enjoy enormously but it will also send out powerful messages,” he said.

So what is he doing himself? He and his wife Tipper have changed all the lightbulbs and windows in their big house in Nashville and installed insulation, 33 solar panels and a geothermal heating system — a heat pump.

“We’re not there yet,” he said. “We were delayed by local laws that prevented the installation of the solar panels and until recently would not allow us to put the geothermal unit in.”

His famous slide show now includes other “inconvenient truths” he has written about for 30 years — the population explosion, growth of destructive fishing methods and destruction of rainforests and other habitats.

“I have always tried to define the climate crisis as the most prominent symptom of a deeper underlying collision between civilisation as we are currently pursuing it and the ecological systems of the planet,” he said.

What’s interesting is that at one time (100 years ago or so) the US was the world’s China. Child labor, massive pollution, etc were part of our dynamic industrialization.

"... rubbish and algae from the Jin river, which is part of the Yangtze river system, Chengudu, in Sichuan province ..."

The rubbish gives the fish that spicy Sichuan flavor...