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Posted on 04/06/2005 8:03:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Doesn't suprise me a bit. The only time I ever saw Hong Kong when flying in was when a typhoon had blown all the pollution out to sea. It's worse in the mainland. 6 months after a building is built, it'll have black pollution streaks down it.
The rivers are BLACK. Not brown, not yellow, BLACK. It's nasty. Dirty country.
"Fortunately, they can do to environmentalists and labor union types in China (like in the photos of the Tibetans they executed) things we couldn't even consider here...."
That's why they live in a sewer.
Seems to me they could do some of the same things they've done when critical of American environmental policies and practices -- organize protests and demonstrations in front of the Chinese embassies and consulates, demand that China sign on to Kyoto, call for boycotts of Chinese goods, pressure Congress to impose restrictions on trade, step into the MSM spotlight.
Maybe I'm just naive, but I can't see what would stop them -- unless they're just reluctant to put pressure on a communist country.
Excellent suggestions. You are right. If environmentalists are truly thinking globally, they would stage huge protests and demand our government take action. But if our government doesn't take action to protect children in China against slave labor (we get cheaper trinkets), what makes you think they would impose sanctions for the environment? And would conservatives attack them for demanding such action? I think they would.
Back in the 18th century, Britain took no steps to protect the people of India from similar and worse abuses. As far as I know, only one man in England even cared. Eventually, that was enough.
A: Target practice!
Don't forget Centralia, PA.
That's why they live in a sewer.
Well, they made their bed, now they have to lay in it...
I'm originally from Hazleton so I 've been to Centralia several times to gawk, we also had our own mine fire off of Route 924 near Cranberry and their was one near Ashley and Nanticoke which was a favorite politico touring site.
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