[herkbird]

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.

[cogitator]

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.