NASA snaps pics of China's 'Airpocalypse' pollution disaster China's capital city, Beijing, is suffering from some of the worst air pollution imaginable – and NASA has the images to prove it. The lung-clogging cloud enveloping Beijing was measured by the US embassy on January 14 and found to contain fine, airborne particulate matter at a volume of 291 micrograms per cubic meter of air. …
We outsourced our manufacturing & pollution, in the UK we fine companies if they don't dispose of their paper cups properly but buy tat from China so they can pollute their cities.
Someone should tell the do gooders the world is spherical and we all share the same atmosphere!
"Someone should tell the do gooders the world is spherical and we all share the same atmosphere!"
That's over-simplifying. You try to solve the problems that you can solve, locally. If the neighbourhood is a mess, you start by mowing your own lawn, and hope the example (and some nagging) will influence others.
Rather than saying "well, if we can't make the rest of the world do what we want, so we're going to do FA!"
You can go along way to solve the pollution problem in China by introducing pollution duty on imported goods. So goods imported into the EU say that originate in a country that pollutes more than the E.U. are taxed appropriately. This has two positive effects, it limits the race to the bottom as companies outsource manufacturing to places that don't look after the environment as well as we do in the E.U. because the cost advantage is largely eroded by the pollution tax. Secondly it encourages the countries with lax controls to tighten them up to qualify for better pollution duty rates and make exporting manufactured goods to the E.U. easier.
Why does China get all the love? ..."found that levels of air pollution in large Indian cities increased at some of the fastest rates in the world between 2002 and 2010—faster even than rapidly-growing Chinese cities."
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80148
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