lordjedi said:
China pollutes like it does because they can. It's that simple. It has nothing to do with "the western world" and everything to do with not having environmental controls in place. They have a communist government that answers to no one but themselves. If you protest, you're jailed, it's that simple.
Arnie.d said:
Maybe China as a country will become (is?) the biggest pollutor. But aren't the figures something like: US 4% of the population, 25% of pollution? And why is China polluting like it does? Because the entire western world wants cheap products and we move production over there. Very convenient without all those shitty rules.
Maybe China as a country will become (is?) the biggest pollutor. But aren't the figures something like: US 4% of the population, 25% of pollution? And why is China polluting like it does? Because the entire western world wants cheap products and we move production over there. Very convenient without all those shitty rules.
China pollutes like it does because they can. It's that simple. It has nothing to do with "the western world" and everything to do with not having environmental controls in place. They have a communist government that answers to no one but themselves. If you protest, you're jailed, it's that simple.
Ofcourse it has to do with us. We ship our electronic garbage to China because they just dump it somewhere (we would have to process it). All the products they make are for the most part for western countries not for their own use. We know they have shitty rules but we allow them to pollute as they do because of our own greed.