Air pollution in Beijing hits hazardous levels

[MisterP]

16. and any complaints about forests, soil, rivers, or air

are just the West trying to hold Asia back from its destiny: Jakarta and Brasilia also still say that the West denuded everything on their continents, so anything they say is a way to prevent the Third World from catching up; Mao's Seven Child Policy also comes from this sort of thinking ("every mouth comes with a pair of hands&quot

back in the 50s the Third World (a phrase coined by Sauvy, who thought its problem was not nearly enough people, because he was French and had been traumatized by the 20s' population contraction, when they banned abortion as treason to the state) was completely certain that if you dammed every river, soaked the crops in pesticide, and doubled the population you'd "catch up" by, oh, say 1965

the tremendous failure of this vision of the world gave us creationists, 9-11, ISIS, cartels, and leveled forests

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