Community | February 11, 2011 | 10 comments

The price of success: China blighted by industrial pollution – in pictures

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2011/feb/09/pollution-china-manufacturing-town...

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"A Greenpeace report has called on the Chinese textile industry to clean up its processes after finding high levels of pollution in the southern industrial towns of Xintang – the "jeans capital of the world" – and Gurao, a manufacturing town 80% of whose economy is devoted to bras, underwear, and other clothing articles."

Look at the horrifying pictures.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2011/feb/09/pollution-china-manufa.../?picture=371500654&index=0
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10 comments // The price of success: China blighted by industrial pollution – in pictures

  • PressCore
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      PressCore  

    • Stock traders like to tout the Chinese economic growth rate is double
      digit, but that's all a reflection of the hype which Chinese nationalists
      like to tout. They're in an economic war. And truth is the first casualty
      in any war. The truth is the Chinese have gone to great extremes in
      decimating their natural resources to accomplish that goal. Their
      landscape looks like Easter Island, once heavily populated with trees,
      now barren. They've had massive mudslides after heavy rains because
      they have too few trees left to hold down the soil. Soil is incredibly
      valuable, taking thousands of years to produce 1-2 feet of topsoil.
      Under that it's hardpan, then volcanic rock. The pollution in their air,
      water, and earth is so horrendous that they had to make a special
      project to curtail it during the Olympics in Bejing. By destroying their
      natural Capital assests, their growth rate is only 1/2 of what's touted.
      I have a big fondness for Gold too, but you can't take it with you. You
      know, if the Chinese Government wants it's nation to be the number 1
      top dog in global economic power, they should come visit Detroit.
      Once they see the inevitable end of their folly they might stop to think.

    • 1 year ago
  • tommic
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      tommic  
    • PressCore:

      Well Said, the Chinese economically are not going to be in great shape due to their mismanagement of their resources. They were so consumed with catching up with other industrialized nations they didn't take the lessons learned from them.

    • 1 year ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • tommic:

      Thanks. Even if the Government here nationalized the Corporate farms,
      then helped retrain the longest out of work people to make a subsistence
      living in places where they'd provide the housing, it's no shame for the USA
      to return to a farmers' Democracy where the people own their Government.
      They could start by legislate against the dumping of high fructose corn syrup
      to pollute processed food, and stop subsidzing of corn as a start. That's one
      of the causes of obesity, diabetis, and heart diease afflicting modern Americans.

    • 1 year ago
  • knifymoloko
  • tommic
    • +2
      tommic  

    • Now the most polluted country on the face of the Earth, it will cost the Chinese government trillions to clean it up, or trillions in medical bills from illnesses contracted from exposure to these pollutants. Sad but true Every major river is polluted, ground water sources polluted, even rural farmers show signs of pollution with open sores, disfigurement and childhood sicknesses never before seen

    • 1 year ago
  • Pawper
  • tommic
    • 0
      tommic  
    • Pawper:

      Then it will become self imposed population control as tens and tens of millions will die from various illnesses from cancer to resipritory problems to a host of other diseases

    • 1 year ago
  • lookatmypix
  • PressCore
    • +1
      PressCore  
    • lookatmypix:

      That scene reminds me of the extreme litter that blows off the trucks
      on windy days when they don't rig their tarps to keep it, and instead it
      collects around a waste recycling center. Except they're making their
      homes into a waste dump. Pretty horrific. There's a lot of germs and
      disease fouling their water, air, and earth in that photo. What a devil's
      bargain they've entered into. People are a lot happier living on organic
      farms. My aunt & uncle were. My grandfather was. I know I'll be too.
      Thanks for your contribution,amigo.

    • 1 year ago
  • lookatmypix
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