Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China

[Craftsman]

http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/comment-page-3/#comment-2025

[Selatius]

1. This is why American industrialists shifted production to China. Low environmental regulatory costs.

They have tremendously weak environmental regulations, and their labor laws may look good on paper, but the reality is that corrupt local communist party bureaucrats can be bought off the same as any other bureaucrat in the industrialized world or in the developing world.

[annabanana]

3. . . like their air will stop at the border, not cross any oceans, NEVER

end up wafting across California's skies. .

dumb dumb dumb

[dipsydoodle]

5. Yep

It's CA which had got the exposure.

[The River]

2. The Real Cost

in human lives of buying cheap crap at Wal-Mart.

[madokie]

4. No truer words writen

than those few you just typed. Its a shame we have devolved into this

[pipoman]

6. Wow, makes me want to run out and buy some of that

delicious Chinese farm raised fish that dominates the US fish market...mmmmm..

[Bobbieo]

8. Popuation Control - Chinese style. Pretty soon no more Chinese!!!!!

Disgusting!!!!!! But what the hell is anyone going to do about it?

[glowing]

7. I honestly think the responsible thing for Developed nations would be

to boycott buying imports from countries that do not adhere to the same standards we would try to guarantee our own citizens. The Chinese would fix their problems rather than lose the money. However, our politicians will not create these trade standards. Its honestly up to us as individuals to make a stand and say we are all brothers and sister far and wide. We have one planet. We are one world. We will live together or die by one another.

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Looks like what most Western nations did during rapid capitalist development

:shrug:

[hedgehog]

15. The fact that we can see those photos suggests the strength of the

environmentalist movement in China today. Engineers I know who have visited Chinese plants are pretty appalled at conditions in some places and also impressed at how dedicated the Chinese are to bringing every plant up to the latest standards.

[Joe Fields]

10. I could not bring myself to finish looking at all of the photos.

The Chinese are beautiful people. Their culture was once envied. It's a sin, as to what the industries are doing there, under the tacit approval of the Chinese government. What do they figure, that once their country is totally ruined, they will move to a neighboring country?

[jfkraus]

11. I just got back from DisneyWorld

Everything there is made in China. All the toys, clothes, and other cheap plastic crap. All made in China because it's cheap. It's cheap, in part, because of lax environmental regulations. We are resposnible for this because we buy their goods.

Boycott "Made In China" until they clean it up!

[Craftsman]

12. I boycott made in China for many reasons.

Buy American, the job you save might be your own.

[lonestarnot]

13. Until about forever then?

[hedgehog]

14. When i was a kid, sights like this were pretty common around Youngstown, Cleveland,

Akron and Buffalo. We'd be headed to Youngstown from I-9-, driving under blue skies past farms and woodland, then hit the Mahoning Valley and pass into an orange cloud.

Funny thing, they told us if we passed the pollution laws, all the industry would leave.

[Johonny]

16. well was in Beijing last year and the air quality

was indeed just horrible.

[WillyT]

17. Holy Shit...

:kick:

[Occam Bandage]

18. In the morning in Beijing, you can feel the smog in your nose and mouth. It's bizarre. nt

[spanone]

19. humans don't deserve the earth

[leanderj]

20. The pics from Jiangsu & Guangdong match what I saw

on my many visits to China. The air was truly foul. The waterways were all polluted to the max. You don't want to eat any local foodstuff there, or get tap water in your mouth.

China is a massive environmental tragedy caused by greed.

[depakid]

21. How long before a river catches fire?

[Craftsman]

22. You will not hear about it