"The Economic Miracle of China" Is the pollution worth it?

[whitelackington]

China about to become Words largest polluter
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7082475.stm 

 

[cap n chris]

And?

 

[graham]

Chris, this is a W/L thread: there need be no purpose to any given post.

 

[cap n chris]

Ah! Thanks for clearing that up, Graham.

 

[graham]

Glad to be of service.

Can I join the SCG?

 

[cap n chris]

It's a bit more complex than that, Graham. We'll chat and see what can be arranged.

 

[whitelackington]

And?

One wonders why we are expected to go through so many hoops to be carbon neutral,
While The Chinese with an 11% national growth rate are not inclined to bother.  :-\

 

[whitelackington]

And?

One wonders why we are expected to go through so many hoops to be carbon neutral,
While The Chinese with an 11% national growth rate are not inclined to bother.  :-\

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7206174.stm

Chinese Economy at record levels of growth

 

[cap n chris]

One wonders why we are expected to go through so many hoops to be carbon neutral,

It's because our politicians pander to the whinging electorate*, creating burdensomely taxing tree-hugging legislation hampering economic productivity, thereby enabling powerhouse economies which are free of such nonsense to out-compete against us even more effectively.

* Who have been misled by myths and woolly thinking.

 

[whitelackington]

One wonders why we are expected to go through so many hoops to be carbon neutral,

It's because our politicians pander to the whinging electorate*, creating burdensomely taxing tree-hugging legislation hampering economic productivity, thereby enabling powerhouse economies which are free of such nonsense to out-compete against us even more effectively.

* Who have been misled by myths and woolly thinking.

Well,
cap 'n chris as you yourself recently said , thanks for clearing that up.

 

[whitelackington]

China Toxic for Africa
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7242832.stm

 

[Hatstand]

It's because our politicians pander to the whinging electorate*,

* Who have been misled by myths and woolly thinking.

Sadly, not even that much. They pander to a tiny portion of the electorate in the middle of the spectrum who will decide an election 

 

[whitelackington]

China to temporally shut petrol stations in the run up to the Olympics to try and reduce air pollution in one of the worlds most heavily polluted cities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7246955.stm

 

[whitelackington]

China to reduce industrial output for two months prior to Olympics
to try and get the air quality improved.

 

[fi]

Presumably this means the workers won't be getting paid their normal wages whilst China tries a temporary "quick fix" for the Olympics!  Wonder how they ever convinced the Olympic committee that they'd be suitable to host the thing in the first place...

 

[whitelackington]

Huge dust cloud blocks out daylight as it moves across Northern China.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7274718.stm

 

[whitelackington]

Slavery should not be tolerated,
even in China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7306426.stm

 

[whitelackington]

Chinese doing massive illegal logging in Siberia and taking stolen timber to China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7338623.stm

 

[whitelackington]

There may be more than one thread coming together.
Is it possible that The peace loving chinese regime is about to arm the peace loving mugabe regime  :-\

"Meanwhile, South African officials have confirmed to the BBC that a Chinese ship anchored off the port of Durban does contain arms destined for Zimbabwe.

The officials said South Africa could not interfere in a trade deal between two nations but only ensure proper procedures were followed. "

 

[Peter Burgess]

Mr. Whitlackington will never make it as a journalist. Not only did I read this hours ago on another news site, it seems you just nick other people's news stories. you have to go out there and find the news stories yourself, or better still, make it! Fancy a trip to Harare?