Posted on 01/01/2008 6:36:48 AM PST by street_lawyer
So the coming US depression is all about housing? Then we don't have to be concerned that gas prices are taking a big bite out of earnings? Not because the oil companies are gouging, but because Al Gore and other politically correct types who worn that it is Freon, aerosol hairsprays, carbon emissions from internal combustion engines, and coal fired electricity generation plants will return us to the ice age once the ozone layer disappears. As a consequence Americans are denied access to domestic oil reserves, denied safe nuclear technology. The same idiots are not concerned enough about Iran and North Korea to do anything about it. The same idiots are not concerned that China continues to emit more such so-called pollution in a week than the US emits in a year.
"China’s problem has become the world’s problem. Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides spewed by China’s coal-fired power plants fall as acid rain on Seoul, South Korea, and Tokyo. Much of the particulate pollution over Los Angeles originates in China, according to the Journal of Geophysical Research. " http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/world/asia/26china.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
China's success is not due to superior technology, a more abundant labor market, but rather is some evidence that industrial growth requires fewer restrictions imposed by government. Also it is not likely that the media in China is trumpeting warnings of the coming ice age if China does not now begin to insulate its factory buildings to conserve energy, does not install scrubbers in its smoke stacks, reduce its dependence on fossil fuels. Americans know what that sound is like and it is deafening, so much so that they cannot hear the arguments for safe nuclear energy, drilling in the Gulf, and in Alaska.
China has fewer then 200 environmental types in its government while the US has more than 2000. If that does not signal their lack of commitment to less pollution, then there are many more cogent arguments, but one picture is worth a 1000 words.
Yinchuan in northwestern China
More of the MSM’s attempt to drive down the U.S. economy so they can assure the world that Bush destroyed America.
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is this guy Cereal? What a maroon.
Title should read: As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes
Also, I don't see any reference to a U.S. recession in the article.
Support communism with your hard earned dollars. Buy Chinese!
I'm not certain to whom you are referring. Would you like to elaborate or just be juvenile?
The original poster is referring to the portrayal of algore on the show South Park.
Okay, I get it now. You were using the NYT story for info. Sorry. I wish you had been a little clearer. Thanks for the link to the NYT article. We have been waiting for that for a long time.
Because we ALL KNOW that the SIZE of government 100% dictates how efficient and effective it is...
I haven’t become totally China-free, but I have stopped buying all food labeled PRODUCT OF CHINA. I don’t want to eat pollution.
It’s ‘92 all over again.
I agree I wouldn't trust anyone who would wear such things.
EXCELSIOR!!!
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I don't care about pollution.
I'm an air conditioned gypsy.
That's my solution.
Watch the police and the tax man miss me; I'm mobile.
Hank
So you know, I was refering to the author of the article. The fact he tried to delink China’s population from its economic might simply shows his ignorance. He draws the wrong conclusions.
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