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Happy Earth Day! [CARTOON]

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  • PoopSalad, on 04/23/2008, -4/+59i'm scared of this cartoon's appropriateness
  • nitesoulja, on 04/23/2008, -14/+9what is that black stuff coming out of those pipes? ... meh it looks nice, cant be that bad
    • aircows, on 04/23/2008, -7/+3i think they call it good intentions
      • guyincognito, on 04/23/2008, -1/+3people are delusional if they think one day a year of being "green" is going to do anything for the environment earth day is just another hallmark holiday made up to separate you from your hard earned cash.
    • rentmitchum, on 04/23/2008, -9/+1I think they're pubes. China's gonna get fed it's parents.
    • curseoflou, on 04/23/2008, -6/+1lead paint fumes
  • tcneng, on 04/23/2008, -23/+1Been trying for 3 years to be first to post on a front page digg.

    Anyway.. happy earth day to all...
  • hemantjha, on 04/23/2008, -7/+2I want to green up this day, with some plants
    • thebassmaster, on 04/23/2008, -5/+3I greened up this day twice this morning. And probably again this afternoon!
  • jefjefjef, on 04/23/2008, -9/+2[citation needed]
  • rentmitchum, on 04/23/2008, -19/+2"Sad but true" -Metallica

    Yes, I just quoted three words.
  • clesch, on 04/23/2008, -9/+2nevermind, thought it was down but it's still up.
  • dstz, on 04/23/2008, -10/+17Who's to blame: the Chinese workers who produce junk or the Occidentals that own the factories and buy this stuff at wallmart and carrefour.. let me think one second.
    • TheSlinky, on 04/23/2008, -5/+10Finally someone who sees deeper into the problem rather than just point the blame at China
      • fokov, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1"Blame Canada!" Both are responsible, however, the consumers are more responsible because without their consent, those companies will not be forced to spend some of its profits making the production more efficient and healthy.
    • Nichiren, on 04/23/2008, -5/+8I don't know why you're both getting dugg down. They wouldn't make it if nobody wanted it.
    • willdiggforfood, on 04/23/2008, -3/+1As long as the pollution stays in China...
      • azbmr, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Yes, well, don't you think they will want a nice, pristine piece of the US that they now own due to our MASSIVE debts to them once China is uninhabitable?
      • fokov, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Actually, a lot of their pollution goes directly to Japan, which is sad and the reasons we need to enforce environmental protections using tools such as tariffs and trade embargoes. (Not implying war is an answer.)
  • goerg, on 04/23/2008, -8/+10anyway, its not just china...its the us and europe as well
    • MRCAB, on 04/23/2008, -3/+1wow.. thanks for pointing that out professor!
      that's like saying your toilet will pollute as much as your car.
  • wejmahtin, on 04/23/2008, -5/+0Ouch.
  • picklepete, on 04/23/2008, -3/+13Down... but not out. The duggmirror machine got it.
    http://www.duggmirror.com/environment/Happy_Earth_ ...
  • Mjuboy, on 04/23/2008, -6/+1And thats another server down, well done Digg.
  • whoisvaibhav, on 04/23/2008, -13/+5Isn't that picture incomplete? here's the complete picture: http://www.onlineobservations.net/earth-day-realit ...
    • helliottlaw, on 04/23/2008, -3/+1China is a disgrace, I wish we could send the whole country to Mars so they can overpopulate, overpollute, and restrict the freedoms of sovereign nations on a different planet...
      • snoogit, on 04/23/2008, -1/+0Actually that would terra form the planet so people could live there eventually.
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1What the hell is a MNC?
      • helliottlaw, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Multi-national Corporation
      • vikingcoder, on 04/23/2008, -1/+0multinational corporation (also known as transnational)
  • matarij, on 04/23/2008, -9/+1God you guys make me want to go out and burn some tires.
  • Regulator980, on 04/23/2008, -8/+2Bury this.
  • coffee200am, on 04/23/2008, -7/+6China shouldn't make things like that. They should be more like the West...progressive and enlightened!
  • da_bradler, on 04/23/2008, -19/+50Why does everybody rag on China so much when America was exactly the same way less then 100 years ago. Americans got a jump start with extremely large amount of slavery and pollution then when you got to the top you decided that everybody else had to play by your rules. Bunch of cheaters.

    I never EVER take an American comment seriously if it's about China. America violates more human rights then any other nation on earth and has killed more people then any other country in the last 60 years. Not to mention they still execute people, torture prisoners and invade sovereign countries on a whim.
    • TheSlinky, on 04/23/2008, -13/+16Yep, digg him down and deny the truth. Go ahead. I'm not sure if you people are just ignorant or don't want to face the truth.
    • DerekkL, on 04/23/2008, -10/+6I'm disappointed the statement two above me is being dugg down, although yes, probably not entirely accurate. But it frustrates me that it seems as if your patriotism is making some of you blind.

      Whatever, digg me down. However at least give my statement a half decent consideration and I will be happy.
    • wphj, on 04/23/2008, -8/+3Umm... there's a lot wrong with your comment. 1st of all, China executes a hell of a lot more citizens than the US does.
      • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 04/23/2008, -3/+5China puts the number at 700. Amnesty International puts the number at 3000-6000 per year.
        Even their "official" numbers are far and above the USA. And not only that, in the US the chances of you committing 1st degree murder (planned and calculated and carried out in cold blood) and ending up on Death Row is small.
        China executed the head of their version of the FDA over the poison dog food scandal.
        • NanoStuff, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2He was taking bribes for bypassing health code. I think that ignoring the poisoning of the food supply somehow deems a punishment more severe than 48 months in prison and a severance check, ala USA.
    • notoneofus, on 04/23/2008, -3/+4You're absolutely right. Early 20th Century in the US was a dark time with pollution rising quickly, mostly from coal (led to numerous air quality control laws), product quality issues, high infant mortality rates, food contamination scares (triggered the Federal Meat Inspection Act), worker rights issues (sweatshops), and rapid industrialization along with the rise of the automobile.

      Japan copied this model in its re-industrialization. Pollution and worker rights suffered, then things got better. Remember when "Made in Japan" was considered a sign of cheap crap? Taiwan and South Korea followed the same. Now China, Vietnam, etc.

      It takes time to make progress in these areas. Rather than just bitching and placing blame, we should be helping figure out solutions.
    • fani, on 04/23/2008, -3/+6True, but back then they drove horsecarts and used very little electricity. But now with advanced science, new things discovered about pollution, global warming, its inexcusable to start again at the 20th century pollution point.
      From your logic, every country needs to go through this pollution phase evertime a third world country develops. This will kill the planet.
      What is needed for at least an advanced country like China to leverage new non-polluting technologies even it costs more to cater to the environment instead of killing the planet to save a buck or two.
      Shame on China. Cheap goods and profits aren't everything. Look at how Beijing is and how those people are suffering under pollution that's spreading even as far as India and Australia.
      • NanoStuff, on 04/23/2008, -2/+2That's like buying a black car and then blaming the salesman for selling you a color difficult to keep shiny.

        You're the sick shameless *****, China is just a proxy for your hypocrisy. Had it not been China you'd be buying your cheaply manufactured ***** somewhere else and then blaming them for daring to sell it to you.

        Don't like the way China manufactures products, don't buy them.
        • fani, on 04/23/2008, -3/+1No, you are wrong. Gas is now $3.50. We're still buying gas. Essential goods are essential. You have to buy them no matter what the cost.
          If you flood a market with cheap $1 bad-on-env goods, and the alternative is $5 american goods, then yes, people go for $1 goods. This also killed the American local manufacturing which adheres to stricter stds, thereby making goods cost more. However, in absence of junk Chinese goods, all goods are $5 then for you thats the cheapest and you will buy that. ( case in point - gas. )
          China doesn't give a ***** about its env. or pollution. It just wants to control the world market. This means cutting corners and not adhering to pollution control stds. It is a bad, horrible work ethic where it employs children even to increase production via cheap labor. SHAME ON CHINA.
          • NanoStuff, on 04/23/2008, -2/+2Nice try. Governments could choose to ban or limit Chinese imports.

            It's supply/demand. They're the supply, you're the demand. That halo over your head came from China, keep that in mind.
          • fani, on 04/23/2008, -2/+1I agree with you that Govt intervention is needed to ban/limit Chinese imports. Something drastic so their bottomline is affected unless they do something about their pollutant ways.
          • NanoStuff, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2I never said governments should ban Chinese imports, I said that this could be done if there was a good reason to do so. There is none. People demand things, China just happens to be a country that produces a lot of these things.

            On the other hand, your point of view has merit too. ***** reality, let's hate China because they're so big and powerful... It's very colorful.
    • willdiggforfood, on 04/23/2008, -3/+2Sources? Just because someone just hit you in the clitoris nerve doesn't make your statement accurate.
    • IPublius, on 04/23/2008, -2/+14Would you care to quantify the number of people that you believe America has killed in the last 60 years vs another country like say China or Russia?
      I note that you say 60 years as well, which since this is 2008 conveniently leaves out WWII. I am not saying America is perfect (far from it), just that if you are going to bash a country (or group or individual etc.) try and stay within shouting distance of the actual facts.
      Some of us do like to think for ourselves, but your comment will not get much thought if it is filled with inaccurate drivel.
      • helliottlaw, on 04/23/2008, -2/+1Good point...and let's not forgot the genocide in Africa and Germany over the past 60 years!
    • invinciblechunk, on 04/23/2008, -1/+3ProTip: It's possible to be an American and have opinions that differ from the current administration.
  • DCJoeDogaswell, on 04/23/2008, -4/+1Digg is in graveyard mode
  • gagan97, on 04/23/2008, -6/+3yeah lets blame china.. who cares if statics show America is producing more green house gases then any other country in the world.. and who cares bush is starting all those wars to produce more green house gases..
    but CHINA u must stop this.. yes guys.. i knw it will be digged down.. becoz similar comments have been
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Your America bashing is a bit too late. China surpassed the USA in pollution in 2007. Google the list of the top 20 polluted cities in the world. none of them are in the USA. Many of them are in China.
      • gagan97, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1i've not checked the list but i'm sure.. amricans must be giving tough competetion to china in pollution.. atleast in per person pollution.. china has more population and more pollution (ok its not gud to have more pollution but thats obvious more person will produce more pollution). But per american person produces more pollution. i dont wanna go govt. bashing but its about citizens who are increasing pollution for luxary. mind it car per person is not need in china but in america it is
    • MiNGLED, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Just because China's house is now burning down faster than America's, so to speak, doesn't mean we shouldn't all try to put the fires out, wherever they are.
    • Nonplussed, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Am I the only one that sees this cartoon as at least as America-bashing as China-bashing? Only an idiot would fail to take into account those who are buying these products. Supply. Demand. *****, people.
    • DCJoeDogaswell, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Statics?
  • zantos420, on 04/23/2008, -6/+3***** china
  • coffee200am, on 04/23/2008, -5/+3FREE TIBET!
    (oh...and the Earth!)
  • macmangb, on 04/23/2008, -2/+7China pollutes without restraint, conducts arm deals with terrorists and denies freedom for Taiwan and Tibet, the world must not just boycott the Olympics but boycott China and all Chinese.

    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 04/23/2008, -2/+4Hey now. There are plenty of Chinese immigrants who dislike what the Chinese government is doing. No need to boycott them. Especially the immigrants from Hong Kong pre-1997.
    • Joebassman, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2All Chinese? Come on. Thats similar (not quite the same I know) to saying "Dove Soap are causing masses of environmental damage, lets boycott all Dove and all Dove employees". As if most of the employees have any input as to the company ethics. My girlfriend is Chinese and I can assure you if she wrote to the Chinese government on these issues the response would not be "oh no, really? Wow, we never realised! Thanks so much for bringing that up, we'll get right on it". Not gonna happen.
    • weister42, on 04/23/2008, -0/+3...while you're typing on a keyboard that's made in China, drinking from a cup that's made in China, wearing pants that are made in China...

      Have you even seen a Chinese person in real life?
      • brownsound00, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2But is it possible to boycott Chinese products? I don't have any proof here, but i'm gonna assume at least 75% of the stuff we own has been made/had parts made in china. i don't really think there is any way we can boycott china, but we could reduce the amount of things we buy from them...
    • NanoStuff, on 04/23/2008, -0/+3Nice try Hitler, you almost fooled me into building a concentration camp.
    • macmangb, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1http://digg.com/world_news/Chinese_torch_thugs_ste ...

      nuff said
  • BuxomBlue, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1but I sure do love them egg rolls!
  • mckinnej, on 04/23/2008, -1/+5I think the artist could have left "CHINA" off the cartoon altogether and the message would have been a different, but just as important message. Earth Day has been taken over by the big corporations that stand to make a buck off of the environmental movement. In short it's being commercialized just like Christmas. If you want Earth Day to mean something to you, then you're going to have to do it yourself. Don't look to the media because they're just going to feed you the corporate line. (For example, GE owns NBC, so you should always question their motives when anything "green" is mentioned on *NBC .)
    • brownsound00, on 04/23/2008, -0/+3Yeah, I don't really like how this is aimed at China when the factory could very well be anywhere in the world..
  • nastronomical, on 04/23/2008, -3/+2LOL watch how the liberal idiotic hordes of digg keep quiet.
  • nickcozy, on 04/23/2008, -7/+1Don't boycott china,just boycott the greedy american companies.CHINA RULES DALIA LAMA SUCKS.
    • MRCAB, on 04/23/2008, -3/+2the only thing I would agree with there, is that the "DALIA LAMA SUCKS"
      everything else is rubbish.
  • Demies, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Doesn't anyone wonder who paid for all these shirts and stuff??
  • vyasram, on 04/23/2008, -1/+09.8 Billion cards?
  • xtremesniper, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Hmmm while I'm sure this has some truth to it, I'm also pretty sure that a lot of the companies that were involved in Earth Day used environmentally friendly processes to produce their materials and products for the events...

    Otherwise that's just wrong.
  • drmangrum, on 04/23/2008, -0/+4Dammit, wrong article. DAMN YOU DIGG FOR NOT HAVING A DELETE BUTTON!!
  • GeauxLSU, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Thank Bill Clinton for normalizing trade and allowing them to enter the WTO!
    This has also been a huge drag on our trade balance causing downward pressure on the dollar....Hey but it got Hillary a nice board position at WalMart and the DNC some extra Chinese cash!
  • ashwinmudigonda, on 04/23/2008, -0/+5Perhaps, this makes more sense:

    http://www.weaddup.com/
  • life38, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I think I liked this nine year old picture better. At least he is showing the part we each can do.
    http://mynonprofitwebsite.com/blog/2008/04/18/chri ...
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