China loses unique animal

"Oh, wait, you don't live in the countryside where they have all those problems so you wouldn't care, would you?"

do you detect a sense of supreme irony?

eecsmaster said:

do you detect a sense of supreme irony?

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Not really, because I do actually care about people regardless of where they live. Just because someone lives in a village doesn't mean they are less important than those that live in the city, but that's the overwhelming impression I got from you, giving your nonsense talk about how if people aren't able to pollute as much as they like, the poor are going to die of starvation - conveniently forgetting about those people who are dying today from lax enforcement of anti-pollution laws. Maybe you could enlighten us as to how many people die in China as a result of pollution and how many die as a result of authorities taking action against polluting companies.......

I note you didn't come up with any alternative ideas as to how China should address its pollution problem. Guess you don't have much of an imagination and just follow what the other sheep do.

missing the point as always. I never made any direct suggestions to the problem, because I at least grasp the concept that such a complex problem cannot be solved by merely speaking one's opinion at an online forum. All I said is that you, who have almost no knowledge of the situation, cannot make blanket statements like the ones you have just made.

Sure you can care about people all the damn you want, but that doesn't mean you will offer anything close to a solution. Such emotional response like "oh I care about people regardless of where they live" while you live in the comfort of a heated home on the other side of an ocean shows just how biased and ignorant you are.

Many of the best solutions are engineering ones, and you obviously are not an engineering, so next time you bring up some teary-eye liberal arts response like the ones you've just made, remember, talking alone solves nothing.

by the way, I don't live in China.

eecsmaster said:

remember, talking alone solves nothing.

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Then what is the point in coming to an internet forum like this? Why do people come here and exchange ideas about the Chinese and other militaries? Why do they put forward opinions, ask for others, etc? According to you, talking solves/affects nothing, so why do people bother coming here? Why do they talk about something they have no control over as if they did? Congratulations, you've just presented a great argument why this place shouldn't exist.......

Come on, the whole point of a forum is to put forward ideas by talking about issues. Don't try to imply it isn't - it's what we do here!!!!!

Finn McCool said:

Hey Golle what's "the leach?"

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I'm not sure I want to know. :rofl:

Leach= leash, written as it's spelled by nature finnish speaker...

China never put them into zoos???!

Well, anyone know how many Pearl River ones are left?

No remaining corpses?
With pollution up and overfishing, those dolphins would be dead sooner or later....

I wonder if dolphins and such will ever end up as a sea monster 10000 years from now like that of Lake Champlain. That'd be nice.......

Well we can all hope that Labs are taking and preserving Genetic material for these and other endnagered species so that a return might be possible later.

In the meantime, the best way to beat the Pollution problem is to get through the dirtiest stages of Industrialisation as quickly as possible. this means building an exconmomy as quickly as possible that has the resources to pay and enact the cleaning and protection programs.

Not an easy option, but real solutions seldom are.