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- enginbeering, on 10/11/2007, -5/+29Does anyone else feel like the Chinese are playing a really successful game of Civ III?
- freebsdmike, on 10/11/2007, -7/+17Everyone knows America is to blame.
/sarcasm - InfiniteNothing, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Aah, the logic, it burns.
- InfiniteNothing, on 10/11/2007, -5/+14To be fair, we are buying the stuff. We could always just vote with our money
- johanm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Where is the war on pollution?
- brentris, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10This is sad to hear. The government there needs to reform big time before becoming a global superpower, because it's hurting a lot of people in a lot of different ways.
- fuzzmeister, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11Uh, what the hell are you talking about? Extreme non-regulation has caused these problems in China.
- mpeters13, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6What's more interesting is how desperate the Chinese government has been, pleading for the data not to be published... The Olympics are coming right around the corner... I wonder if these results are going to do anything to tarnish the chances of the events being held in China?
This aside, the stupid China bashing in this thread needs to stop. - inactive, on 01/02/2009, -1/+6Nudaris slightly offtopic, but I googled it and there is a link (I thought there wasn't one) See http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2250133
Buried for the sensationalist wording though. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4...is something that should be avoided.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Impeach China? Good luck.
- edebolt, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Yeah China signed Kyoto because it did not require them to do anything but talk a little. About half of the countries that signed have not met their goals.
- Asianwaste, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Tell you what, you can go to Tiananmen Square and start a protest for an impeachment... whatever you mean by that...
- novask, on 10/11/2007, -10/+14and yet if someone bombed 1 building killing 3000, they would all go crazy and start random wars.
- awakenDeepBlue, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3yay! China gets a free ride!
- trer, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6You do know that regulation is non-existant in China, other than to suppress speech.
- edebolt, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3That used to be true but the bicycle is rapidly declining in China in the last 10 years. They love the automobile and only the poorest people still ride bicycles. Many of the larger cities outlaw petrol motorbikes but allow electric ones and the electric bikes are growing very fast at the expense of bicycles.
- clark24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3As much as the 50% of Americans (who voted Bush-Cheney) seem to think, the US is not the world police. We should worry about fixing our own problems before we wreak havoc on anything else.
- mal1964, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Old out of date coal burning plants are the biggest offenders.
- Nudar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Of course it does. The article implies Chinese pollution is limited to the people within China that it kills when it also affects people outside China's borders.
- Asianwaste, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Abbreviation would offend too many Italians.
- mal1964, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Since the mid-1990s, about 150,000 Americans have died each year from Lung cancer .
http://www.oncologychannel.com/lungcancer/. - acoolpenguintux, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2And yet they have made such vast improvements that they are able to host the Olympics?!?!?! Feel sorry for the chumps running the marathons!
- miriclaire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Maybe it allows them to breathe the pollution in more efficiently.
- Derelict267, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Population control? Sheesh, everything is a conspiracy isn't it? The world is out to get you, better watch out. Go crawl back in your hole.
Digg has been getting worse and worse lately with people like this. Or maybe its just the video section, yesterday Zeitgeist was in the top 10. I really hope not everyone is this stupid. - digggggggggg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2In other news, under the direction of the CCP, China's heavy industry, consumer industry, and motor vehicle use have been eliminated, effectively reducing the gross domestic product (GDP) by 100%. According to CCP Chairman Hu Jingtao, the value of the lives of 750,000 people were "too great" to justify industrial production, electrical generation, or usage of motor vehicles.
- barryiggins, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3so, what do you propose as an effective way to "work" with corporations outside of government regulation?
- miriclaire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2yes
- film42, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2It's ironic because something like 90% of china uses bicycles as their main transportation
- edebolt, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2China has been growing for 30 years and sells its products all over the world. They have made a conscious decision to favor growth over the environment. Lots of countries around the world are growing more responsibly with a more balanced agenda.
- Elephant789, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Wow, if those are the figures for China, I wonder what they are for the us!
- Ninja337, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah like drop Communism
- mousebite, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2The Chinese Communist Party still runs the show...Recalls on Chinese products are everywhere. The Communist Party denies everything.
- tehxen3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yes they all ganged up on China... Rich countries are doing chinese people a favor by placing factories there because it lifts millions of people out of poverty and setting China on track to become a rich country in the next 15 years (more than 10% economic growth/year so far).
It's communist elite's greed that allowed it to happen in China because they denied its 1.3 billion population economic and perfonal freedoms for the past 50 years. - Osjpr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1if corporations had an ounce of decency there would be no need for regulations.
- cosmid, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2If anything "the Americans." should be praised for trying to prevent deaths like this from happening by sending a giant WTF to China in the form of NOT signing the Kyoto Protocol since their "developing country" status gave them a blank check on anything related to the control of pollution. If standards were equal in the moronic protocol (to an already signed treaty, look it up), perhaps Clinton, yes Clinton would have signed it when it crossed his desk. Why is the rest of the world so friggen ignorant to these things?
- Asianwaste, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Better dead than red?
- Asianwaste, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What if I am pro-pollution?
- jamison18, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2we produce more in terms of gnp than anyone
- xAndromeda, on 07/26/2009, -0/+1one of the most common misconceptions is how most people think that the air in Beijing is caused by pollution and not by the nearby deserts.
the US actually pollutes much more than China directly as well as indirectly, much of the polluting companies in china are american owned. there is also that fact that china has some 1.3 billion people so 750k is really not that much percent wise - miriclaire, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Are you ***** nuts? A good thing that people get disease -ridden and suffer and die prematurely? Get a ***** grip, you loser.
- sremick, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Remember that next time you save money by buying the cheap "Made in China" item.
Things like protecting the environment and protecting human rights cost money. Production in countries in which such things matter have a higher-cost than products made in countries that see killing 750K people as a calculated operating expense. - jasonpoon, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4Who refuse the Kyoto Protocol? the Americans.
- fixedcoma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1better go solar and wind before the water too dirty to grow rice!
- miriclaire, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2What kind of idiot would say this FTA: “We did not announce these figures. We did not want to make this report too thick,” Right--right--let's not make these reports too thick! Let's not burdebn people with a whole bunch of facts and figures!!!
- Asianwaste, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1No one can stand in the way of a Persian Empire that happened to start with an iron deposit.
Edit: For Civ IV, Indian Fast Workers always FTW. - Lister169, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I guess China is a Carbon Yeti.
- sicapitan, on 10/11/2007, -7/+7I live here and the air pollution sucks, thank feck the games are coming on tighter restrictions. I'd hate to live in some parts the factory ridden south. You western bastards, you're driving this! ;-)
- Asianwaste, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Shut with the ***** up
- Onyxblaze, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Why, when I can kill other people? Why lower the population by one person when I can lower it by thousands? Mwahahaha /JK
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