2008 Olympic Nostalgia In Beijing - It's Not About The Event, It's That The Air Was Briefly Clean

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1. Good thing that pollution stays in China or it might start to affect the air quality

around the world. Sad for China. I'm just glad the air gets filtered at the borders (actually that filter is only in the minds of capitalists).

Seriously, this is an extreme case of "careful what you wish for". The PTB in China wanted the capital, wanted the industries, were willing to exploit their people. They got it. Pollution is inevitable and they got it in spades. Will it cripple or kill them in the end? It's certainly doing that now. Where is the breaking point?

I hope they find a *real* solution and not one tainted with cover-up and greed. The usual "solutions" of capitalists typically are. Unfortunately the effect this is having on people isn't enough to move them. Not until it effects their bottom line will they do anything and that will be their barometer on the effectiveness of their measures, not the quality of life for the people who are stuck in their hellhole. Let's hope the purists in the Communist party there (are there any?) take up the cause of bettering the culture again. What good is a deep, rich cultural history and having amazingly smart and intelligent people when you are killing them off with poisoned air and water?

Pray for China to wake up from this mess and that the solutions they do find are applicable everywhere polluters are destroying our ecosystem. Because just moving the factory out of the neighborhood is not a fix, it's only pushing the problem onto somebody else and delaying the inevitable outcome of killing us all in the end.