Posted on 07/17/2007 4:29:31 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
Edited on 07/17/2007 4:30:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Hundreds of millions of people fall ill every year or die prematurely from air and water pollution caused by China's breakneck economic growth, one of the world's leading economic thinktanks has concluded following an 18-month investigation.
China's water quality causes the researchers great concern. One third of the length of all China's rivers are now "highly polluted" as are 75% of its major lakes and 25% of all its coastal waters. Nearly 30,000 children die from diarrhoea due to polluted water each year.
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Somehow, I’m sure this is our fault. If we weren’t buying all those Chinese products (which I try to avoid because they’re crap but sometimes everything seems to be made there) there would be no pollution, just peasants happy to till the soil.
Progress slogs on....Leaves BIG footprints.
No, notice that it’s the “breakneck economic growth, “ that’s being blamed for it, the subtle implication that capitalism is bad.
What they don’t get is that they don’t have to pollute to produce. They’re just lazy and greedy.
What they don’t get is that they don’t have to pollute to produce. They’re just lazy and greedy.
I don’t care if they trash their own backyard. Soon enough they’ll wake up to the reality that they’re destroying their living space and do something. What bothers me is that nothing I buy made in China is worth a damn.
I’ve spent plenty of time in the Guangdong province and the rivers are black. The skies are polluted, new buildings have pollution streaks from the rains within weeks. It’s disgusting and I’ve not been there now in nearly 3 years. It can only have gotten worse.
Time for a 5 year plan.
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