NYT/Reuters: US Urges China to Clean Up Environment

[DeepModem Mom]

US Urges China to Clean Up Environment
By REUTERS
Published: April 11, 2006

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States urged China on Tuesday to clean up its environment ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as China's top environmental agency warned Beijing citizens to stay home to avoid serious air pollution.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Stephen Johnson warned China that the world was watching its environmental protection efforts in the lead-up to the Beijing Games.

"The eyes of the world are on China as we approach the Olympics in Beijing in 2008 and the Expo in Shanghai in 2010," Johnson said during a speech at Beijing's Qinghua University.

"More environmental protection progress can and must occur."

Johnson said more stringent enforcement of central government environmental policy and legislation was required regionally and urged greater cooperation between China's levels of government -- central, provincial and local....

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-environment-china-usa.html?_r=1&oref=login

[Benhurst]

1. George W. Bush the environmentalist.

:rofl:

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Pot, meet kettle. nt

[johnfunk]

6. Darn, you beat me to, "In Other News, Pot Calls Kettle Black"

[Karenca]

3. How ironic!

Do you think B*sh will nuke them if they don't comply?:sarcasm:

[Kutjara]

4. I think that's what is known as...

...a credibility gap.

[cliss]

5. The U.S. is part of the problem.

We created this hydra. Factories in China spring up like mushrooms. One day, there's a little field with vegetables growing in it. The next day, it's been turned into a factory churning out cheap crap like batman toys which get stuffed into Happy Meals.

The Chinese of course know this. They have been doing flagrant, unbelievable poisoning of their own people, like dumping thousands of tons of poisonous pollutants like mercury off ships. This toxic stew then floats upstream, making people sick.

Growth at all costs.