Posted on 12/31/2006 4:08:19 PM PST by freedomdefender
A GREAT coal rush is under way across China on a scale not seen anywhere since the 19th century. Its consequences have been detected half a world away in toxic clouds so big that they can seen from space, drifting across the Pacific to California laden with microscopic particles of chemicals that cause cancer and diseases of the heart and lung.
Nonetheless, the Chinese plan to build no fewer than 500 new coal-fired power stations, adding to some 2,000, most of them unmodernised, that spew smoke, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere.
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Do the environmentalists care about China's real and presdent crimes against the environment? - or are they only concerned about shutting down growth in the US economy and lowering the living standards of Americans?
Are we surprised? When the Iron Curtain fell, it revealed some of the worst pollution on the planet. Communist centralized economic control will never do anything right.
I hope the good citizens of California will start griping, as Chinese particulates fall on them.
There's no problem. The Kyoto treaty will fix it. Oh wait--China is exempt. Well, since we've made them a special case I guess we shouldn't worry about all that coal burning.
Don't tell Gov. Schwarzenkennedy. His Hollywood buddies, his wife and her relatives have him convinced it's the average Jane and Joe Californian's fault.
The writer "buried the lead" in the last paragraph.
Even the NY Times a few years ago admitted that the coal fires in abandoned
mines in China produce more pollution than the vehicles of the USA.
(Sorry, I don't have a cite; I didn't know how to record/document
webpages back then)
I'm guessing even if the US joined Kyoto or switched to 100% nuclear, the US would still take the brunt of environmentalist anger for "past crimes against nature" or something of that sort. Or perhaps not. There have to be at least a few sane environmentalists. Not sure if any of them are liberals though. Largest nature reserves/national parks/environmental national monuments have all been created by Republicans.
Communism has given us an abysmal environmental legacy. Communists have no incentive to reduce externalities such as pollution. Ask Eastern Europe how much the life expectancy of their citizens has increased since the collapse of the Evil Empire. No more cadmium and PCBs poisoning from Soviet fertilizers.
But how can this be, America is the world's #1 polluter, just act Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and the other mainstream enviralists.
"Thanks," socialism.
As I tell my students, if you are an environmentalist, you should SUPPORT private property & capitalism.
Capitalists try to cut costs (resource use)- economizing on the earth's raw materials, as a result. The "gap" between resources costs & price is...more profit, which is then plowed back INTO new R&D (technology, to REDUCE resources and energy usage).
And support of private property rights mean: you can SUE someone who violates your own property & health, pollutes them, for example. Try and sue "the government" -- it is much more difficult if not impossible impossible.
If you like pollution & resource consumption, vote for more socialism.
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Envirowackies don't care about China being a bigger contributor to pollution than the U.S.
If memory serves, all the so called studies they pull out show China as being better than the U.S.
Yet there are cities in China that literally disappear from view due to the amount of pollution iin the air, a literal smog cloak of invisibility in the overhead haze.
But remember, the enviros insist that the U.S. is a bigger contributor to CO2 than China...
Oh my, you mean my can of hairspray that I've used for 4 months isn't going to be the cause of global warming????
No doubt, just look at the former USSR. They had easily the largest natural resource reserves in the world and they went bankrupt because their stupid cut-rate socialist economy couldn't make it work. If the USSR couldn't make it work, nobody can.
As some of the postings already pointed out, it doesn't matter how much China craps up the environment,Bill Clinton and the rest of the anti-American crowd was only concerned in punishing America for any pollution in the world !!!
Outer space nothing! My first plane ride in 1961 from Raleigh to Dallas, I got a north window seat. Always remember, literally hundreds of smokestacks with dark brown V's visible for what must have been a couple hundred miles southward. Flew the same route six months ago, nearly nothing visible from six miles up.
Only a healthy economy can afford to clean up the way America has. China has started remediation, wants to look good for Olympics, but it is in catch-up mode. Fogging up San Diego is beneath the bottom of China's radar screen.
"Do the environmentalists care about China's real and presdent crimes against the environment? - or are they only concerned about shutting down growth in the US economy and lowering the living standards of Americans?"
I don't hear any complaining from the EnvironMENTALists about China, so we know what their real goal is for sure.
And they're not a part of Kyoto either. :)
Keep voting Democrat :D
Time for AlGore to burn another 130,000 gallons of fossil fuel on a trip China to command those bazturds to stop burning fossil fuels.
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