Can Future Olympic Cities Go Greener Than Beijing?

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supermanred, on 08/26/2008, -6/+40My toilet bowl after I take a ***** is greener than Beijing. What a stupid question.

Come on, they had to shut down more than half the city's industry and move the other half away from the ***** Olympics just so the athletes could breathe.
maximilen, on 08/26/2008, -4/+31Beijing: a single green leaf in a forest of dead trees.

China today is somewhat comparable to the U.S. around the 50's -- the last thing on their mind is going green. Manufacturing, growth and political power is what's on their minds.
ilovdigg, on 08/26/2008, -4/+30Well if by greener you mean NOT shooting missiles in the air in an attempt to alter weather patterns, then yes, they can be greener than beijing.
chris4404, on 08/26/2008, -2/+22You can't get much greener then using babies as fuel.
jmkiii, on 08/26/2008, -2/+20Wouldn't the real challenge be in attempting to be less "green" than Beijing?
t3hmyth, on 08/26/2008, -2/+19Yes.
JMCtg, on 08/26/2008, -2/+18Yes.
supermanred, on 08/26/2008, -1/+16Beijing is far from green. It's a city surrounded by a cancer cloud sitting in the middle of the dirtiest country on Earth. Seriously.
inactive, on 08/26/2008, -3/+17The only thing green is the air
Shaggy3, on 08/26/2008, -2/+14Greener than Beijing? Really?
How is this not an Onion article.
sevvo, on 08/26/2008, -4/+15How hard could that possibly be?
borez, on 08/26/2008, -2/+12When exactly was Beijing clean?
SoIcanDigg, on 08/26/2008, -1/+11The question should be: Can any city go from brown to clean and back to brown faster than Beijing?
pintomp3, on 08/26/2008, -2/+11beijing didn't go green, just clean. not the same thing.
subliminalurge, on 08/26/2008, -0/+8That would be a challenge.

If my city took every gas pump in town and let them dump, full blast, on the ground for an entire week, we'd STILL be more environmentally friendly than Beijing.

I mean, my god, some of the footage I saw leading up to the Olympics the smog was so thick you couldn't see the building across the street. And this was AFTER their clean up efforts were well underway.
tacojohn48, on 08/26/2008, -0/+8Is that a new event?
RogerStrong, on 08/26/2008, -0/+8>> Beijing: a single green leaf in a forest of dead trees.

How so? Turning off the factories and stopping traffic for a couple weeks for a one-time-only event is hardly being green.
t3hmyth, on 08/26/2008, -0/+8I'm sorry dude.
JMCtg, on 08/26/2008, -0/+7Beat by mere seconds :*(
inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6Does that mean Michael Phelps is The One?
inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6You do realize that single green leaf was spray-painted, right?
borez, on 08/26/2008, -1/+7Beijing = The Matrix
leerayIG88, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6Si
inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6You're not living right if you don't have at least one bright green ***** per year.
protodon, on 08/26/2008, -2/+7Wait, Beijing was green?
iceman0113, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5If you eat 4 to 6 bags of the Welch's Fruit Snaks, you'll ***** neon green. No joke.
theremixtrack, on 08/26/2008, -4/+9I ***** greener stuff then Beijing
leerayIG88, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5Hai
Spuy767, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4God dammit I have to start reading the comments right below me!
Spuy767, on 08/26/2008, -2/+6To answer the question posed by the title. . .
Considering that they fired chemical containing artillery shells into the air to prevent the opening ceremonies from being rained out, I'm gonna say, "Yes."
jmkiii, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4Assuming they only have 1 shark, I would want to go last.
shutaro, on 08/26/2008, -1/+4OM NOM NOM!
inigomntoya, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3And depending on what you ate the day before, you are probably right (green beans, asparagus, etc...)
inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3You know, if you'd ease up on the guacamole, you wouldn't have that problem.
WhoDoneIt, on 08/26/2008, -2/+5Vancouver doesn't even have to do anything if the want to beat Beijing for the upcoming 2010. Stupid question... NEXT!
Data33, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3Ja.
HiKevinRose, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3than*
then is for time.
borez, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3Possibly
Canonet, on 08/26/2008, -2/+5How can they even begin to comment on how olympics could be 'greener' when the 1st thing they do is turn on a huge ***** torch that burns gas for 17 days?

I think that the organisers should either harness the heat from the torch to warm the water in the swimming pool or use a fake effect flame like my nan has in her ever so 70's fake fireplace.
subliminalurge, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2I'd never heard of "John Titor".

Thanks for posting that. It was good for multiple chuckles.
inactive, on 08/26/2008, -2/+4Is this title a trick question? Greener than Beijing? Gosh...I dunno. During some Olympic events it looked like you could literally chew the air.
inactive, on 08/26/2008, -1/+3that is most likely blood in your stool
maximilen, on 08/26/2008, -2/+4Correction: the olympic facilities lol.

And they only green because they had to, not because they wanted to.
EffYoo, on 08/26/2008, -1/+3lol china
rectagon, on 08/26/2008, -1/+3Vancouver is the site of the opening ceremonies... not Whistler. BC Place Stadium in Vancouver holds 60,000 people while the Whistler venue is only for ski events. The idiot who wrote this is sadly misinformed.
lepster10101, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1Perhaps they mean each Chinese citizen on average can have attributed to them one fifth the pollution of the average American....
dajuggernaut, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1yeah dude.. the smog cloud around the city was green,
the water people drank was green,
peoples faces were turning green...
everything was f'ing green.
i even took a turd while i was there and it came out green..
exformation, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1Good thinking, it'd probably be full by then.
Eric1285, on 08/26/2008, -1/+2Yep, you could host the games anywhere else in the world, and it'd be greener.
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