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Autumn Rain Down 90 Percent in China Rice Belt

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China must come to grips with the consequences of progress when other factors are not weighed into the process. Building dams is not the answer as they are causing environmental degradation, pollution, and damage to marine life and other ecosystems. The Himalayas are melting faster than expected thus putting millions at risk regarding water scarcity. 90% of their rivers are polluted, many unusable. Desertification encroaches on them causing farmers in villages to look for other methods of surviving. Yet they still bring at least two coal fired plants on line a week. There comes a point when you burn the candle at both ends and it meets in the middle. China is now there.
JanforGore

4 responses // Autumn Rain Down 90 Percent in China Rice Belt

  • http://www.terradaily.com/reports/HARDY_Rice_Less_Water_More_Food_999.html

    This might be an option.
    JanforGore
  • I wish there was some way China could meet its energy needs without using coal fire power plants. It has a lot of land. I don't see why they can't build wind farms and solar farms. Any ideas?
    phoenix_fire999
  • Daming their rivers is definitely not a sustainable solution. It is worsening their water crisis to the point that millions of refugees will be created when the rivers (their drinking water) dry up.
    phoenix_fire999
  • Perhaps they would if they had a government willing to do so and an informed population free to express their desire for it to be done. The Chinese government isn't exactly open to democratic dialogue on the part of its people which I think is a big part of the problem. Without democratic dialogue and a people able to express their beliefs and able to acquire the knowledge necessary to know what they up against, that only works against real progress. However, they will have no choice but to go towards solar and wind and other options in my view based on the current crisis their country faces ecologically if they wish to remain economically viable, and I have read where they are just beginning to move toward more renewable energies. However, through all of that talk they still continue their status quo ways, with little regulation to hold them accountable for what they put up in the atmosphere. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? I am hoping the climate conference in Bali next month will move them to see just how urgent he need to move quicker towards renewables is. If they can be convinced that moving that way will also be economically advantageous for them, perhaps that will move them as well. According to the latest IPCC report they will have no choice in the matter, and neither will we.
    JanforGore

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