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- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -9/+33Shouldnt your government be blocking you from being here?
- pchi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26It's really quite simple. The U.S. (and other countries) buy more and more goods from China because they can produce them cheaper. How does China accomplish this? Through more flexible labor and environmental regulations. Bottom line? We all participate and contribute to "China's" pollution problem by buying the goods that they produce.
This is a classic example of a negative externality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality - capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24I'm glad I inspired somebody. :) That is a great image!
- tlmac59, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23This post was inspired by a story posted by capn_caveman
http://digg.com/science/Exporting_Pollution - sleze, on 10/12/2007, -14/+34Funny, I don't hear the people in canada across the lake from Detriot complaining. Oh wait. They've been complaining for years about exported polution.
No digg because we (the US) are the worst at it and not China. They will have to do a LOT better to top us. - jinushaun, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21The US is not part of the Kyoto Protocols either, for pretty much the same reason as China--we're the largest consumer of energy. China is 2nd.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17wow, is that really pollution? it's incredibly thick and dense.. disgusting.
- steve693, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Japan should just build a really big fan. . .that'll show em.
- MikeyMoose, on 01/30/2009, -4/+16Knock knock... Hello?
"Pot? This is kettle. You're black, over..."
The US has been exporting Sulfur Dioxide for decades and polluting Eastern Canadian Lakes:
http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/saib/acid/assessment2004/summary/index_e.html - beefcurry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11i live in hong kong and i think your utterly wrong, you do know hong kong has 2 major coal powered powerplants, where the majority of guangdong province is powered by a nuclear plant (which...dosnt emit CO2). If you check the recent reuters article on 2004 CO2 emissions Japan does score well over china. And also haize may be exported from china, but acid rain and CO2 are exported from Japan, japan is the single biggest acid rain contributer to the region.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11some people call co2 polution, we here call it life..
china just exporting some life giving smg - Kamatz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10....really? Nowhere does it say China is #1 and all of a sudden there can't be story about pollution from another country unless America is mentioned? Really?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+111. Michigan is going to stop taking garbage soon, because everyone complained.
2. "maybe canada should thank us for any immitation economy that they have today. w/o trade from the USA, canada is about as worthless as DPRK."
Learn more about the world. Canada is ripe with natural resources. We've got timber, fresh water and lots of oil. A large portion of your steel is made here. *sigh*. In fact, one can even argue that we help your economy. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Woulda thought they woulda routed the pollution into Taiwan.
Pollute em into submission. Use it as a weapon - julesp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7There is a simple way to stop this, don't buy from companies that pollute the environment. This takes a lot of work but can be done.
- tgraham, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Doesn't export them per se, does it? Not a malicious plan on the behalf of the Chinese...!
- jbus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I guess China and the US have something in common...
U.S. Exports Pollution to Europe:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/050204_pollution_spread.html - largobargo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5SARS and now this?!?! I was beginning to lose hope in humanity until I heard pat robertson could leg press 1200 pounds.
- HRF1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Not only air pollution, there also has been literally tons of used medical devices such as used syringes reaching the shores of Japan from the sea current. A lot of these come from China where hospitals dump bio-hazardous materials into the ocean.
Just think of all the children who can't go to the beaches because there are syringes laying around their shores. :( - peritonlogon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The states of New England have been complaining about the mid west for a number of decades too. Climb up a few thousand feet in the White Mountains (NH), you feel like you're in the wilderness, but the air quality is awful.
- neko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Best of any nation to keep the environment clean? Uh, Kyoto Protocol?
- Buttercup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Dude come on, its clearly just china trying to get a protective anti-spying layer over them. its so smart! they make it harder to spy on them, they have cheaper products (less anti-polution clutter), AND they get to polute japan!
- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@mrops,
Well, I'm in Rochester, NY and every winter we get cold air coming from Canada which gives us lake effect snow, so it goes both ways. - mrops, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Umm.. I am in Toronto, Canada. Every summer we get Smog warnings due to pollution coming from South.
Mr. Bush (or American's in general) are not concerned cause winds blow north :) - bmac3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5yeah ... U.S pollution sucks... my igloo is melting ....
(ps our dollar is almost equal yours .. yet our population is only equal to that of Calif) - stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10China exports pollution so the US doesn't have to. The US exports war so China doesn't have to.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10That pollution is from one billion Chinese people farting, after eating dishes like this:
Cowboy Leg
Rurality Salad
Strange Flavour of Inside Freasuse
Benumbed Hot Huang Fries Belly Silk
Domestic Life Beef
Pig Livings Bowel
Cattlefish (is it a cow, is it a fish?)
Plus the following gaseous, counterfeit drinks: Coca Coca, Sprit, and Sankist
Yes, it's all true: http://rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php - drizek, on 10/12/2007, -6/+90 population growth is a sign of a post-industrial country. Sweden is the same way.
Hint: Theyre better than us. - dicepackage, on 10/12/2007, -10/+13I think Canada should not be complaining about pollution immediately above Michigan considering that Michigan takes in garbage from Canada. Granted we are talking about two different types of pollution but I feel that we are getting an even traid off.
- transpot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4and I aslo heard that these "yellow sand" from China(dust, to be exact... the particles are much smaller than sand) sometimes travels as far as Hawaii, Alaska, and California..although it's not really a Chinese people's fault.. :)
- transpot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Koreans (probably japanese also) call it the "yellow sand phenomenon". I lived in Korea till a few years ago. And the people suffer from the awful pollution every spring. It's kinda like a tear gas, to exaggerate. Basically it mixture of sand and harmful chemcials from china coming through wind. Korean administration issues some warning and alert depend on the level of the pollution. and they usually wear a mask when going outside if it happens...
- asdfasdf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I don't know if you people know this, but many industrialized countries export pollution. The US and Europe are probably the world's biggest pollution, as well as nuclear waste exporters. As a matter of fact, the US used to dump nuclear waste and garbage in Africa. Now that's illegal without permission but it goes on a lot.
- ersaclarke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5There's no doubt, US is world's largest pollution creating and exporting country. US sucks!
Japanese export electronical rubbish (and others) to developing countries, Japanese sucks!
China can't compare to these two countries in pollution exporting. - arunforce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Front-page inspired. =)
- walugi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I want you to answer this truthfully.
"Are you ***** retarded?" - bchang, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Hong Kong is who really suffers trust me i feel it now.
- unimatrixZxero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We are NO better!
- DocDEB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Prevailing winds. China > Japan > North America > Europe > Asia > round and round we go were we stop we know.
- tomobc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey guys, check this out, China is one of the largest NO2 emission sources. That probably because all the world is moving their factories to China. (as far as I know Germany is doing that)
http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM340NKPZD_index_0.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3That is idiotic, China is exporting Smog and Filling their rivers with Benzene. We haven't done that in....years.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Have you considered the possibility that they all suck?
- walugi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Celeron you are a douche. Do you know anything about modern China other than the propoganda you absorb like a sponge? Go watch the Discovery Channel.
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5wow. china is disgusting.
- mercuryswitch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2By far the funniest thing I've read today.
- MoebiusStrip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ha, over here, we've got crooked deals with developing countries; we actually get paid for our toxic waste!
China is getting ripped off!
/sarcasm - 500freestyle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1burn.
- ReinMasamuri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This is one of quite a many reasons that they Kyoto Accords were useless and why the U.S. were right when they didn't sign it.
- ReinMasamuri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They're running at around 78% of the U.S. and comming 3.7% closer every year.
- HPSauce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Heheh, so much US-Chinese-Taiwan etc. hostility and bigotry in this thread. Why can't we all just... get along?
Oh yeah, because a lot of you are *****. -
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