China faces rising costs from pollution-(therefore we should import more food from there)

ap ^ | 7/17/07 | By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press Writer

[Flavius]

BEIJING - China's smog-choked cities and contaminated waterways are leaving many people sick and unable to work, in turn fomenting unrest and threatening the country's economic growth, an international think-tank said Tuesday in a government-requested report. ADVERTISEMENT

Concluding an 18-month review, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said China's severely polluted environment has caused "significant damage to human health," hurting the country's prospects for continued economic expansion.

"Clearly a healthy economy needs a healthy environment," said Mario Amano, deputy secretary-general of the Paris-based OECD, which groups 30 industrialized countries.

[Chode]

China Industries International

their new corporate logo...

[Dick Bachert]

Not to worry.

When the Three Gorges Dam lets go in a few years, it will flush the whole country like a big toilet and clean up everything — including a few million people.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

The middle class creating industrial might of America was created by Besemer convertors, smoke belching factory chimneys, and steamy, howling locomotives. It wasn’t an organic daisy farm for asthmatics and the lactose intolerant. Once the current corrupt generation of dilletantes has passed on the remnants of the wealth created by our grandparents to our children who will be even more corrupt and decadent, the notion of either health or wealth in this country will be an irrecoverable memory. Selling each other website names does not equal a steel industry.

[VeniVidiVici]

The middle class creating industrial might of America was created by Besemer convertors, smoke belching factory chimneys, and steamy, howling locomotives. It wasn’t an organic daisy farm for asthmatics and the lactose intolerant

I have to laugh when I see this argument from time-to-time in support of the Chinese polluting their country. The only problem is our ancesters didn't have the technology to produce goods with little pollution. The Chinese have the technology available but choose not to use it.

[Flavius]

they also did not have to belch out smog for 1.2 billion clowns