Amazing Pictures - Pollution in China

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China

[ET Awful]

1. See, it's just like the Republicans have been saying . . . if you deregulate,

the companies will regulate themselves.

[Dead_Parrot]

2. Fuck. nt

[Warpy]

3. Heavily industrial cities in the US

looked a lot like this in the 1950s. I can remember the yellow grey pall of coal smoke over cities when houses used it for heat and manufacturing plants used it for things like steelmaking. I can remember getting bronchitis and coughing up yellow stuff streaked with black, the air was so dirty.

The Cuyahoga River through Cleveland was so polluted it caught fire many times, the most recent being 1969.

When we rebuild industry in this country--and we will have to, if we want to survive--we have to make sure to rebuild it without the filth of the original Industrial Revolution.

China is losing arable land to industrial filth, something they can't afford. Those plants will have to move elsewhere once China starts getting serious about pollution standards.

My guess is that the Africans will be next.

[One_Life_To_Give]

11. We were like that

It was conditions like that, that gave birth to the modern environmental movement and regulations. It's a shame that others couldn't learn from our mistakes. But I suspect your right that when Southeast Asia tightens it's environmental laws the crap will jsut move to Africa and the cycle will repeat.

[zeaper]

13. Yes we were like that-but many activists claim we pollute more now than ever!!

Whats up with that?

[One_Life_To_Give]

14. Selective memory

The chemicals we are concerned about now wern't on the radar screen 40 years ago. Hard to wory about CO2, CH4 and NOx when you are looking at rampant fish kills, water that irritates the skin on contact. Exhaust stacks from coal boilers with no particulate filters, etc. So now some polutants are down, others?

[Arctic Dave]

4. That is amazing. Not in the good way but in the horrible way.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. There are no words......

[golddigger]

6. OMG!

[Ian David]

7. If Bush hadn't sent all our jobs overseas, maybe Detroit would look like that now?

Thank you, President Bush! You are teh awesome!

:sarcasm:

[angrycarpenter]

8. Unimaginable horror

It is horrific just to look at it, I can't imagine having to live there. I am saving that link.

[bvar22]

9. The "Invisible Hand of the Marketplace"....

...hard at work.

THIS is the easily predictable product of Free Trade.

[pscot]

10. Dear god, what are they thinking?

Mordor had nothin' on China.

[wuvuj]

12. See various forms of pollution over China...

http://www.temis.nl/airpollution/so2.php

[Nothing Without Hope]

15. Ah yes, the "magic" of the free market, without government regulation.

This photographer is very courageous. Doubtless the political/police corruption there is a great as the environmental.

In modern "civilization," just a greedy few can do so much damage to so many, and who knows when that poisoned land and water can be made clean again.