

Industrial sector of this region has the highest concentration of particulates







This study was published in Environmental Health Perspectives.

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RE: Where are all the environmentalists
By FaaR on 9/28/2010 7:14:27 PM , Rating: 5
The "environmentalists' bag of tricks" is what saves us westerners from having to live like people in China, with lead paint on toys and plastic additives in milk powder to mention but two examples which were brought to light in the west, whereas countless others go on undetected in China.

Do you REALLY want to be without environmentalists? Are you nuts? What would be better by that, you hate the environment or something?

By priusone on 9/28/2010 8:27:22 PM , Rating: 1
I totally agree with both of, that is if I though about the world in black and white. I hate how environmentalists have cost the US tens of thousands, if not way more, but like you said, lead in paint sucks.

Ever read about London during Englands Industrial Revolution? Same thing happened here, but thankfully the US has more land to spread the factories out.

Yeah, polution sucks, but China's agenda is different than that of the western countries. We talk about creating jobs while they actually create them, be it in horrid conditions, the fact still remains, they are actually doing something instead of just talking.

RE: Where are all the environmentalists
By TSS on 9/29/2010 10:33:46 AM , Rating: 1
Yes. I'd totally want to be without enviromentalists and replace them with rational people. Who understand what can and cannot be done, as well as understand the real dangers and benifits of certain technologies.

You don't have to be an enviromentalist to care about the enviroment.

By PaterPelligrino on 9/30/2010 4:14:46 AM , Rating: 2
What is happening in China is the unregulated free market at work. Libertarians should rejoice that the Chinese gov't allows its industry to do what they bloody well want.

You take away the EPA and give American industry free reign to pursue profit and the same thing would be happening over here; the same thing did happen over here until the gov't came down on polluters. Google 'Love Canal' or the Cuyahoga River - the river than caught fire - if you think businesses in the US can be blindly trusted to do the right thing

You don't have to be an environmentalist to care about the environment.

That's a contradiction in terms: the vast majority of environmentalists are just ordinary people who care about the environment. I consider myself an environmentalist, but I don't spend my weekends in the forest talking to the trees.

