CHINA IS DYING [+] serious ballot by Kev24 created Sun Aug 26, 07 for the last few years, it's bee totally in vouge to attack the united stats as the world's biggest polluter. it was justifed in some cases. but during that time, americans said about the kyoto accord "hey, if you are so concerned with actually doing something about pollution, you won't let countires like india and china off the hook." sadly, many chose to do jus that and instead blindly attacked the united states. i urge you to read an article in today's ny times. here are some excerpts -- Chinese cities often seem wrapped in a toxic gray shroud. Only 1 percent of the country’s 560 million city dwellers breathe air considered safe by the European Union. Beijing is frantically searching for a magic formula, a meteorological deus ex machina, to clear its skies for the 2008 Olympics. Environmental woes that might be considered catastrophic in some countries can seem commonplace in China: industrial cities where people rarely see the sun; children killed or sickened by lead poisoning or other types of local pollution; a coastline so swamped by algal red tides that large sections of the ocean no longer sustain marine life. China is choking on its own success. The economy is on a historic run, posting a succession of double-digit growth rates. But the growth derives, now more than at any time in the recent past, from a staggering expansion of heavy industry and urbanization that requires colossal inputs of energy, almost all from coal, the most readily available, and dirtiest, source. 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. More pressing still, China has entered the most robust stage of its industrial revolution, even as much of the outside world has become preoccupied with global warming. Experts once thought China might overtake the United States as the world’s leading producer of greenhouse gases by 2010, possibly later. Now, the International Energy Agency has said China could become the emissions leader by the end of this year, and the Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency said China had already passed that level. Land, water, electricity, oil and bank loans remain relatively inexpensive, even for heavy polluters. Beijing has declined to use the kind of tax policies and market-oriented incentives for conservation that have worked well in Japan and many European countries. Indeed, Britain, the United States and Japan polluted their way to prosperity and worried about environmental damage only after their economies matured and their urban middle classes demanded blue skies and safe drinking water. But China is more like a teenage smoker with emphysema. The costs of pollution have mounted well before it is ready to curtail economic development. But the price of business as usual — including the predicted effects of global warming on China itself — strikes many of its own experts and some senior officials as intolerably high. do yourself a favor and read this article. the picture included is of a "chinese shop" in china. knowing people who have been there, they say it is filthy to the point of being surreal. experts say that due to de-forestation, china loses the size of new jersey to deserty every 5 years. so hate the usa all you want, but you dolts that blindly lash out at us better wake up. agree? huh? what? china is worse than the usa? surely you gest!! yeah, i know it's true, but i will act like an a-hole and still blame the usa for everthing china is screwed! here's my wisdom Ballot #117358 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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