China's Impact on the Environment

AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
Interesting how in Copenhagen the island nations, prodded by countries that pollute more than China per capita, made a big stink charging others with destroying their nations with rising sea levels caused by pollution. Guess who are worse polluters per capita more than China in the world?

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AssassinsMace said:
Interesting how in Copenhagen the island nations, prodded by countries that pollute more than China per capita, made a big stink charging others with destroying their nations with rising sea levels caused by pollution. Guess who are worse polluters per capita more than China in the world?

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A large part of the products manufactured in China are exported to other countries. If these countries were to manufacture these imported products in their own factories, it would cause roughly about same amount of pollution in their own environment. It just show that some people are just plain ignorant and easily influenced by hearsay, or worse still, they couldn't care less if the agenda serve their whatever own purpose or self-interest.
 
solarz

solarz

Brigadier
It's only those with a political agenda who blames China for pollution. No serious scientist would lay the blame of pollution on 1.3 billion people who have only a fraction of the carbon footprint of those living in industrialized nations.

Furthermore, many environmentalists like David Suzuki actually praise China for the amount of green-energy initiatives that it has undertaken.
 
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ahho

Junior Member
You'd be surprise about recycling.
Don't laugh at those old ladies that pick up cans or cardboard, they get recycled in the end.
When I was working in a computer shop in Vancouver we talked how we throw out so much box and have to pay someone to pick it up and joke that if we were in Asia, we would have been rich.
 
Engineer

Engineer

Major
I once worked in a machine shop. There, a CNC milling machine is used to shape steel blocks into molds to make plastic utensils. The byproduct of this process is a lot of metal chips that have to be cleaned out at the end of the week. There would be bags and bags of those metal chips.

Guess where those bags go to? Right into the garbage bin outside. There's not enough metal for recycling company to want to pick up, and the owner of the machine shop see no point in driving to the recycling center. So, all the metal goes to the landfill.

This will never happen in China or Hong Kong where poor people would happily take away those bags of metal for free. The weekly amount of metal coming out of that machine would probably be enough to keep food on the table for those people for at least a month.
 
solarz

solarz

Brigadier
Engineer said:
I once worked in a machine shop. There, a CNC milling machine is used to shape steel blocks into molds to make plastic utensils. The byproduct of this process is a lot of metal chips that have to be cleaned out at the end of the week. There would be bags and bags of those metal chips.

Guess where those bags go to? Right into the garbage bin outside. There's not enough metal for recycling company to want to pick up, and the owner of the machine shop see no point in driving to the recycling center. So, all the metal goes to the landfill.

This will never happen in China or Hong Kong where poor people would happily take away those bags of metal for free. The weekly amount of metal coming out of that machine would probably be enough to keep food on the table for those people for at least a month.
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And people wonder why the West has such a high carbon footprint. It's not all the hamburgers we consume, it's the blatant absurdities of industrial waste like this!
 
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