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Growing Public Unrest Leads China To Admit To 'Cancer Villages'
eldavojohn writes "A new report from China's environment ministry has resulted in long-overdue self-realizations as well as possible explanations for 'cancer villages.' The term refers to villages (anywhere from 247 to 400 known of them) that have increased cancer rates due to pollution from nearby factories and industry. The report revealed that many harmful chemicals that are prohibited and banned in developed nations are still found in China's water and air. Prior research has shown a direct correlation between industrialization/mining and levels of poisonous heavy metals in water. As a result, an air pollution app has grown in popularity and you can see the pollution from space. China has also released a twelve-year plan for environmental protection."
China has also released a twelve-year plan for environmental protection.
Should read:
China has also released their twelfth five-year plan for environmental protection.
My apologies!
after my wife returned from China, and told me about the red air, it seems like a possibility now.
I've maintained for years that China, Mexico, and similar countries going though industrial booms are simply in early stages of industrial revolution. Next we shall see environmental, wage, and health reforms, as these countries realize the need for sustainable management of their labor base.
Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
Lest we become hypocrites...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory
as soon as they hack the EPA.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
You can see any surface feature "from space" including the licence plate on my car with the right equipment. I'm so sick of people throwing around this meaningless term.
We are feathering our environmental nest at home and stocking our shelves from unregulated hell holes.
At some point this evacuation of our industrial base to China will emerge as a moral issue. It's already an employment issue for the working class and a fiscal issue for the nation, but neither of those seem to comfortable office people and the ruling class.
Maybe the shame of all this will.
Importing from regimes that do not have equivalent regulatory rigor is exploitation.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
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It says "In twelve years there will be no environment left to protect. So carry on"
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
IIRC, in the novel, the zombie outbreak began in a village in China. Looks like it may be time to head for the hills!
Where's the explanation on how the free market is going to fix this problem without the need for burdensome regulation? Anyone? Anyone?
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We are feathering our environmental nest at home and stocking our shelves from unregulated hell holes.
Submitter here, this link was removed from my submission. To be fair it was a link heavy submission so it was probably smart. Obviously we're on the same planet as China and when this negatively affects the planet it also affects us.
So you already have an interest in not purchasing materials from heavily polluting companies. The problem is that the "free market" as it exists (yeah, I know it's not truly a free market) does not give a single fuck about the environment. We don't even have a way of rating products by their pollution and even if we did, China would just bribe that all away locally. Really all you can do is observe and report so more people become informed.
My work here is dung.
Reminder, energy independence and renewables are different than anti-pollution.
I'll go out and drive my electric car charged from solar panels because it gives me more (energy) freedom. Furthermore, while some forms of pollution are global, others are not. Even with all the green tech available, factories still produce byproducts. NIMBY and EPA requirements mean some goods will always* be manufactured in 3rd world** countries.
The EPA, as worthless as they are/seem to be, is responsible for New York no looking like Mexico City or Beijing. Do you really think most people drive cars with ridiculously expensive emissions control technology because they want to?
* The bulk of them will, for the foreseeable future.
** any country where there is little to no industry regulation.
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I spent a year living in China. At 30 years old, the month after I left all the hair on the top of my head turned grey and fell out. It eventuelly grew back. Most likly explanation was heavy metal poisoning. It happened in one of the largest cities in China, Nanjing.
Bring enough of the developed world in with its standards and you bypass this nasty and unnecessary part of "industrialization" - especially if it uses the displaced to help enforce it.
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You overlooked their attempt on June 4, 1989, which resulted in the Tiananmen Massacre. People were disappeared and history revised to disappear any memory of the conscious choice of the country to choose individual freedom - instead of just being content with letting multinationals keep their workers occupied while giving the people a few economic distractions.
A few trinkets wont change the general lack of freedom that the People's Republic of China maintains. The country's face will have to be ripped clean off with a change to a more Western-friendly government that grants freedom to people of all levels of prosperity and status- much like Taiwan and British Hong Kong before each got invaded by pro-mainland sentiment.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Don't worry once China has to enact those bothersome environmental and safety laws that cut into profits the corporations will move on to the next 3rd world country.
Yes they will - and that's how progress happens! There are a finite number of places that haven't finished their industrial revolution yet, and this just speeds the process along. Eventually, the whole world will have made it to the good side of the industrial revolution, and that's not at all a bad thing.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
...that Chinese are just as delicate as Californians. Here in Texas we have oil running through our veins, we breathe ozone recreationally, and we consider lead and mercury "performance enhancing substances". It's just one reason why we can still buy all sorts of products known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, brain injury, and all sorts of ailments that we aren't concerned about much here.
The way things are going, we'll come full circle and once again N. America will be the place for industry since we won't have any environmental laws left.
Here in Canada the Federal government is gutting all the environmental laws as quick as they can and they don't care at all that parts of Alberta are more polluted then China. America has very similar politicians who would love to get rid of all those pesky environmental regulations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
The way things are going, we'll come full circle and once again N. America will be the place for industry
Wake up, dryeo, it's later than you think. Chinese manufactring workers have been heading back to the farms because manufacturing is returning to America - for a decade or so now. Robots work cheaper than Chinese. No ecological catastrophe required.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Because nothing can take China down as effective as what's taken America down.
American skyrocketing medical costs over more than two decades have helped crush the economy here. This happening in China in a single decade could very well be a national disaster there of unprecedented proportions historically anywhere.
China can admit to this yet Canada cannot. There is at least one such village here and yet Canada criticizes China regarding the environment and human rights.
Sadly, a Libertarian cannot force his views on another, and freedom cannot spread as does the cancer known as religion.