That's funny my first thought when I saw these pictures was "No price is too high to avoid turning my beloved country into a hellscape like that." Also, you think that's sustainable? They are having 100's of riots throughout that country on a daily basis. People are revolting against the utter annihilation of their land and the death of 10,000's of children from cancer and respiratory illnesses from pollution. Who wants to live in that kind of nightmare? The Chinese will wipe themselves out in a decade or two at the rate they are going. I say threaten to default on our debt if they don't clean up and agree to sign environmental pacts with the BRIC nations and try and get global agreements, just like our limits on Nuclear weapons for this kind of environmental eco-cide.
That's funny my first thought when I saw these pictures was "No price is too high to avoid turning my beloved country into a hellscape like that." Also, you think that's sustainable? They are having 100's of riots throughout that country on a daily basis. People are revolting against the utter annihilation of their land and the death of 10,000's of children from cancer and respiratory illnesses from pollution. Who wants to live in that kind of nightmare? The Chinese will wipe themselves out in a decade or two at the rate they are going. I say threaten to default on our debt if they don't clean up and agree to sign environmental pacts with the BRIC nations and try and get global agreements, just like our limits on Nuclear weapons for this kind of environmental eco-cide.
I find it interesting that the same folks leary of global emissions pacts are wanting China to clean up while not signing on to similar legislation on our end. Ridiculous, it's crystal clear that global environmental agreements are CRITICAL. Otherwise China's model will spread around the globe and we will race to the bottom. A few years of China style industrial wasteland on a global level would be the nail in the coffin for this planet. To look at those pictures and have any other reaction then revulsion and desire to see it cleaned up is the HEIGHT of insanity.
Ask yourself do you want this happening to people in our country?:
And do you want this:
to be turned into this:
This is like a suicide competition to want to emulate the Chinese in any way. Let them kill themselves off, we supposedly found a better way in the latter half of the 20th century. Let's not devolve.
) but there is something wrong when you're doing what they are doing. I've read reports that China's pollution is drifting over and hitting Oregon/Washington quite a bit. I think we'll see scenes like this again throughout the world where there is some dictator looking to make a buck, but I don't think we'll see it on the scale of China.
Not if we stick to a higher standard and marry that with dis-incentives for their kind of reckless behavior.. I think they should be boycotted and sanctioned for this just like we are considering with Iran and their Nuclear weapons program. To me it's as big or a bigger threat then Nuclear proliferation.
If you do as you suggest and get rid of unions then wages become an externality that is cut to the bone and beyond, because you just move to a place where there is slave labor. The answer is not to trade with slavers or ecocidal (or genocidal) maniacs. Whether it be Iran's threat to wipe out Israel or China's destruction of the ecosystem you don't negotiate or trade with terrorists. China is the REAL environmental terrorist and is a much bigger threat then some guys in caves somewhere.
That's funny my first thought when I saw these pictures was "No price is too high to avoid turning my beloved country into a hellscape like that." Also, you think that's sustainable? They are having 100's of riots throughout that country on a daily basis. People are revolting against the utter annihilation of their land and the death of 10,000's of children from cancer and respiratory illnesses from pollution. Who wants to live in that kind of nightmare? The Chinese will wipe themselves out in a decade or two at the rate they are going. I say threaten to default on our debt if they don't clean up and agree to sign environmental pacts with the BRIC nations and try and get global agreements, just like our limits on Nuclear weapons for this kind of environmental eco-cide.
I find it interesting that the same folks leary of global emissions pacts are wanting China to clean up while not signing on to similar legislation on our end. Ridiculous, it's crystal clear that global environmental agreements are CRITICAL. Otherwise China's model will spread around the globe and we will race to the bottom. A few years of China style industrial wasteland on a global level would be the nail in the coffin for this planet. To look at those pictures and have any other reaction then revulsion and desire to see it cleaned up is the HEIGHT of insanity.
Ask yourself do you want this happening to people in our country?:
And do you want this:
to be turned into this:
This is like a suicide competition to want to emulate the Chinese in any way. Let them kill themselves off, we supposedly found a better way in the latter half of the 20th century. Let's not devolve.
