Microbloggers,
state media and even delegates to this week's session of the National
People's Congress, the largely rubber-stamp parliament, were already
critical of the government for poor air and water quality. Now they are
also expressing disquiet over the scarcity of information about the
environment available to them.
*The
bad news is that the country's hell-bent drive towards
industrialization has brought in its train a host of collateral
problems, not the least of which is pollution. Last month Beijing's air
pollution soared past levels considered hazardous by the World Health
Organization (WHO).
*Prior
to that, the government often played down the pollution in Beijing,
insisting it was merely fog, despite evidence to the contrary that was
plain for all to see. Earlier this year, following public pressure
resulting from hourly air-quality readings first published in 2011 by
the U.S. embassy in Beijing, which Chinese authorities had previously
denounced as "foreign interference," the municipal officials took
notice.
Pollution
in China is one aspect of the broader topic of environmental issues in
China. Various forms of pollution have increased as China has
industrialized, which has caused widespread environmental and health
problems. According to the World Bank in 2007, 16 of the world's 20 most
polluted cities are in China.[1][2]
*China,
in Guangdong it is Province is made up of four small villages. It is
the location of what may be the largest electronic waste (e-waste) site
on earth.[1]: Once a rice village,[9] the pollution has made Guiyu
unable to produce crops for food and the water of the river is
undrinkable. Guiyu as an e-waste hub was first documented fully in
December 2001 by the Basel Action Network.
For
example, a November 2008 news story by 60 Minutes, a popular US TV news
program, documented the illegal shipments of electronic waste from
recyclers in the US to Guiyu. While taping part of the story on-site at
an illegal recycling dump in Guiyu, representatives of the Chinese
recyclers attempted without success to confiscate the footage from the
60 Minutes TV crew.
* 10 most polluted countries in the world
Latest industrial pollution to batter China environment: BEIJING,
Hundreds of thousands of dead fish were left floating in a Chinese river
after a chemical discharge, officials said Wednesday, the latest
industrial accident to pollute the country’s battered environment.
About 100,000 kilograms of fish were cleared from 40 kilometres of the Fu river in Wuhan, the capital of the central province of Hubei, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing “local government investigations”.
I
was overwhelmed thinking about the dire state of the environment in
China in every respect then I was thinking wait a minute Fukushima's
nuclear fall out has greatly affected Russia, Japan, and the entire
world not to speak of Chernobyl.
Russia
has made many environmental disaster area's in many former USSR
countries. Much of South America is a mess, the United States has it's
great amount of guilt and is now concentrating and fracking our frigging
country to pieces for gas and oil.
Canada
is doing its share with its grotesque oil sands in Alberta that they
want to pipe through our heartland and its aquifers and wildlife
migratory areas. I saw countries in South America where it was
impossible to eat the food grown as it is in areas of China. These areas
are all over the world.
We
don't even want to get into the ocean with its numerous growing dead
spots and continent size garbage swirls. Remember the pirate problem
down around Somalia? We created them. At one time we had permission from
tribal elders to dump all our nuclear and electronic waste in what was
there fishing area and we killed everything forcing them into piracy.
What we don't know about our pirates. We do this all over the world!
China
was the focus at the outset but every continent every country is doing
its share to destroy the only planet, the only place we have to live and
the powers to be could care less that they are destroying it for their
gain. I am disgusted!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com