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China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air
Hugh Pickens writes "With the Olympics due to start in less than three weeks, Beijing is cranking up antipollution measures by yanking cars off the roads, expanding mass transit and staggering work hours in a bid to meet its pledge of a 'green' Olympics. Beijing has gone on a spending spree, relocating factories, seeding clouds, retiring old vehicles, planting millions of trees and halting building construction amid concerns that athletes and visitors could suffer breathing problems. For the next two months, owners of 3.3 million private cars can drive only on alternate days in China's capital, based on whether the last digit of their license plates is even or odd. Environmental and sports performance experts have cast doubt on the effectiveness of the measures taken so far. 'Arguably these are all short-term measures, just designed to control air quality for the time when the Olympics are on,' says Dr Andy Jones. Dr Angus Hunter warned that athletes are at risk for low performance if the air quality cannot be brought down to acceptable levels. 'Average times could be lower and the chances of records being broken become less. It's a bit like trying to exercise in a room when the gym is full of smokers.'"
I just let out a big, nasty fart here on the other side of the world. That should make China's air seem nicer by comparison. Seriously its really very nasty, its the kind that feels hot coming out your ass and you wonder if you deposited sticky liquidey shit on your underwear and you pull down your pants to check and youre glad to find that you did not. Ugh it smells awful too makes me want to PUKE. Anyway China should be nicer by comparison.
They can't be the worse. The US is the worse by far. Living the the US is barely tolerable and people die constantly due to the large amounts of pollution in the air and people gunned down by their government. Everyone else in the world lives in peace and harmony. except of course the places that king bush has decided to invade in order to help pollute the US even more.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
you dropped out of high school, right?
The dream: that some day, China will be free enough to have their own fair and balanced Fox News station.
Now THAT's progress. Right, Papa Bear?
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"Well, maybe it wouldn't have been offensive if it had been spelled correctly. or if it hadn't been in quotes. Or if there had been anything of substance in the OP other than 'China's pullution is AWFUL'"
"Less offensive if spelled correclty", I'll just leave alone, it stands as it's own argument.
Quotes where?
and since when did someones opinion have to include intelligent substance backing up an opinion when the subject even admits that the opinion is shared to such an extent as to warrant billions of dollars spent to correct it?
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Fucking little chinks just know how to decorate shit for the westerners to see. The world will not survive unless we have a white majority in the world.
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We're not talking about a near useless government here, we're talking about China. You know a government that if they decide it's going to rain somewhere, they simply make it rain.
There's a big difference in the capabilities for enforcement between China and Mexico. If China wanted to prohibit all vehicle transfers during this time, they could easily do that as well.
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Well, if you really want to compare yourself to developing countries who don't have the money, go right ahead. You will still look bad in most respects. Why don't you compare yourself to Canada and the EU nations? As your great leader said, you are still the worlds biggest polluter.
Yes, there can not be criticism about your environmental policies, only on the Chinese ones! Any criticism must be a sign of evil communist! That the US has consistently let down the other western countries in their efforts to improve the environment has nothing to do with anything. I am just a tool! And an idiot!