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If you'd like to read more, it's takes about 30 seconds to do a google search.
This isn't some bullshit I made up. The environmental crisis in China is a very well documented problem.
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If you'd like to read more, it's takes about 30 seconds to do a google search.
This isn't some bullshit I made up. The environmental crisis in China is a very well documented problem.
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It also takes about 30 seconds to do a Google search to find many pictures of environmental issues in the US or many other countries. "Environmental crisis" is apparent around the world instead of just in China. China didn't contribute to global warming alone. It was still a mostly agricultural country after the Second Industrial Revolution in Europe. I find it very hypocritical how first world countries have polluted the Earth since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and when 2nd or 3rd world countries are trying to catch up, turn around and point fingers at them. That's exactly what you're trying to do here.
Again, where did you get the information that there is NO environmental regulations in China? I can tell you right now that it is NOT LEGAL in China to dump industrial waste into rivers. Now, do people strictly enforce the law? That's up to them. In every country, there are people disobeying the law.
I remember walking on the street of California where there were signs that tells people they will receive a $200 fine if they litter trash into the drain that drains to the bay. However, just around every drain I can see trash, plastic bags, bottles etc. I am sure most people in the US have littered trash into some kind of water in their lifetime.
Again, I don't see the reason to single China out. To be honest, the Chinese don't understand why Americans drive so far just to get food. Doesn't the driving contribute to the GLOBAL environmental crisis? With more than FOUR times the population as the United States, imagine if every Chinese person had American values and way of life, and drove cars like Americans. What would that do to the environment?
I walk downtown in any major city in the US and I will find piles of filth that are environmentally hazardous. There are plenty of sensational books, films, articles, that document environmental crises in the U.S. Just off the top of my head, films like Inconvenient Truth, Fast Food Nation, What Happened to the Electric Car...all kinds of sensational images come from just those three documentaries.
In every country, there are good areas and bad areas. For every picture you try to search on Google for environmental crisis in China, I can pretty much assure you the same can be found in America. Another product comes to mind when I think about American products: corn. Corn is the most important crop in America, and it not only drives the entire food industry, but it is used for a plethora of manufacturing processes. The production of corn itself is very environmentally damaging. One search in Google (and it didn’t take 30 seconds, it only took 2) shows an in-depth report on the environmental effects of growing corn in the United States. From fertilizer, pesticides, energy and fuel consumption, to the nitrogen, phosphate production levels, to the negative impacts on water quality, biodiversity, irreparable damage to wildlife and habitats, the evidence is overwhelmingly clear. The study “King Corn: The History, Trade and Environmental Consequences of Corn (Maize) Production in the United States” can be found here:
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It’s a study conducted by an organization backed by first world countries, WWF. Now what if people from other countries said, “This isn’t some bull$@# we made up. The environmental crisis in America is a very well-documented problem.” What if they proposed a boycott of corn, and all its subsidiary products, made in the United States?
In fact, I encourage you to do what you seem so adamant about doing: go ahead and boycott all products from any country that is not a first world country. Go ahead, and try it. But first, throw away your computer please
At least one part of it was made in China, if not the whole thing.
I know most Americans will probably never change the way they think about China or products made in China. It’s the way most Americans are conditioned to think, by the media, unless they are first-generation immigrants. I don’t intend on changing anyone’s opinion, I am merely trying to present another point of view, as someone who has traveled all over the U.S. and China.
