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China Warns Of Five-Fold Increase In Air Pollution In 15 Years
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| 10/24/2005
| AFP
Posted on 10/25/2005 8:20:07 AM PDT by cogitator
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To: MediaMole
Emission control technology for coal-fired plants has existed for 30+ years. China needs to spend some money and start cleaning up their own mess.Apparently they don't need the gypsum (byproduct of coal stack S02 scrubbers).
Japan does, though!
To: loreldan
Leftists just don't get it. Technological progress does not cause pollution. Modern methods are more environmentally sound than older methods. As more progress is made, more environmentally-friendly products will be developed as the economy allows it. This is assuming, of course, that the government gives freedom to private enterprises to compete. Worth a repeat.
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posted on
10/25/2005 9:02:31 AM PDT
by
kidd
To: Publius6961
Was it Maurice Strong - a world class shill for the international ecofascists.
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posted on
10/25/2005 9:05:52 AM PDT
by
Bedford Forrest
(Roger, Contact, Judy, Out. Fox One. Splash one.<I>)
To: cogitator
And China being exempt from most of the requirements of Kyoto that the Euro-jerks want us to sign on to. China already FAR exceeds the US emissions-and are the fastest growing consumer of petrolium.
Just another example of the international double standard.
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posted on
10/25/2005 9:37:49 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of Satan)
To: cogitator
To: Bedford Forrest
Was it Maurice Strong - a world class shill for the international ecofascists.Might be. The article I refer to was quite specific about dates, objectives and total lack of a need for the process to have been started. The Kyoto Protocols, in essence is 100% a solution in need of a problem, combined with an innovative way to redistribute world wealth, or/and a Macchiavellian means of allowing Communism to overpower the west economically by the simple expedient of inventing "Carbon" sales, which the Soviets will have an excess of indefinitely, and the U.S. will not.
I am still digging.
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posted on
10/25/2005 10:01:29 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: Publius6961
To check out Maurice Strong, Father of Kyoto...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover010405.htm
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posted on
10/25/2005 10:45:41 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
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posted on
10/25/2005 11:16:37 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: cogitator
This is a serious problem that China will have to address. I hope they succeed in addressing it and provide a healthier environment for their own people.
To: ponder life
I hope they succeed in addressing it and provide a healthier environment for their own people.Reportedly they're going to close down industrial production around Beijing for the 2008 Olympics so that the air will be somewhat breathable.
To: cogitator
Reportedly they're going to close down industrial production around Beijing for the 2008 Olympics so that the air will be somewhat breathable.Yes, that's their plan. The Olympics are very important to China. They will want to showcase Beijing during that time and are doing everything they can to make the city green.
To: cogitator
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posted on
10/25/2005 1:09:36 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
To: cogitator
The air from Asia comes right through the valley here, has been visible most days for the past twenty years, and sometimes gets downright thick. Sometimes it makes the eyes and throat burn. In the summer it is hard to tell if it is local wildfires, but in winter when the air is moving so local woodstoves and powerplants aren't a factor, there it is, the valley smoked out. It's going to get five times thicker in fifteen years. Great.
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posted on
10/25/2005 1:14:15 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: cogitator
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posted on
10/25/2005 1:22:46 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
To: lormand
China is probably like many of America's former heavily coal fired steel mill towns like Gary, Indiana, back in the 50's and 60's. The air was choked in dark black smoke that reeked of odors and covered all the buildings in town with a filthy layer of soot.
My father said Gary, Indiana was as close of a picture of Hell that one could imagine back then. Thank God that America's steel industry was forced to change, which made great changes in helping clean the air in some of America's worst polluted cities.
Paper Mills in Kalamazoo, Michigan, choked the life out of the rivers they used for their waste water. The Odor from the Kalamazoo river smelled very much like a river of raw sewage. Today the Paper mills are all gone and the river now runs clear. I'm sure the river bottom is still mired with PCB's and plenty of Dangerous heavy metals.
I can just imagine how bad China's environment will get before they start paying the price to clean up their waste and pollution.
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posted on
10/25/2005 4:40:09 PM PDT
by
herkbird
(Semper Fi)
To: familyop
The other one might have been too big. And we're breathing that red air here in the Maryland Mountains, too.
To: herkbird
Paper Mills in Kalamazoo, Michigan, choked the life out of the rivers they used for their waste water.Yep, same problem occurred for the Fox River in Wisconsin (near where I grew up in New London). But they've apparently done a decent job of cleaning that river up.
To: cogitator
Thank you. It turned out to be a browser misconfiguration here. ...and a little opinion commentary on what I've seen.
A principled small group in NASA was the first, as far as I know, to find and show that our world's leaders are mainly harming arable lowlands (lack of runoff and filtering) around our large cities by concentrating populations in them. A generation before mine--a generation with more common sense--knew that "urban sprawl" was the enlargement of our cities and not movement into rural areas. For example, about a 100 years ago, there were a couple of communities in the Rockies of more than 60,000 people each. Now each of those areas are hardly populated at all.
Most environmental concerns about residential areas are improperly, IMO, focused on sterile but pretty places (mountains, deserts). Isn't it nice to have no near neighbors (little sarcasm there) where so many lowlanders love vacation (money and exclusivity). Corporations that use natural resources have fronted greenie relatives and other associates to push small competition out of the way (saw it here in the lumber industry and housing developments).
So China has built its factories and other plants in the lowlands (no runoff for filtering) and is inviting tourists to its mountains (pretty but naturally sterile). And the world is pushing schemes like the hypocritical Kyoto Accord with a blind eye toward smoky China.
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posted on
10/26/2005 11:51:29 AM PDT
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familyop
("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
To: N3WBI3
China is the first "developing nation" to launch two manned space flights. When will we wake up?
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posted on
10/27/2005 2:22:23 AM PDT
by
kevin_in_so_cal
(http://www.boycottmadeinchina.org)
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