Doesn't it annoy you that we have to be green while china grows?

Question

What I mean is that we are being urged to be more green whilst asia and africa and south america are growing heaps. I don't believe in Global warming personally and I am very upset to think that all this money is being wasted. While we are being green they are growing and one day they'll be on top and we'll be the third world country. What do you think about it all?

Answer 1

Africa is a third world country. they don't have running water or electricity i don't think you are that bad off.

Answer 2

Actually they supress a lot of news so you dont rally know whats happening there, and even if you visit that place hardly are you going to land up at a remote factory location.

Some news which have come out tell gory tales of entire communities and villages wiped out due to pollution. Some areas are so bad that even staying there can give you bad cancer within couple of years.

We really dont know what price they are paying probably they are banking on their huge number of people to be sacrificed for the financial success seen today.

My gut feeling is that no one knows how bad their situation is in terms of pollution but considering their greed and lack of compassion for humanity I would think that they are paying a very heavy price, most probably 10-15 years down you will be healthy with all body organs intact to start a new trade where as most of the Chinese would be ailing with bad pollution related diseases and going west for treatment.

Their entire industry can collapse under the severe pollution that is being thrown out carelessly.

Answer 3

Have you ever been there?   I spent 8 hours on watch in Taiwan on one ship.   I couldn't even see the end of the ship the smog was so bad!   After half an hour I couldn't see clearly.    After an hour my throat hurt.    By the end of the watch I was in very bad shape.    If you want to live in conditions like that constantly, go ahead.    You'll be able to make a whopping $10 per day too.    We'll be the third world country because we ship all our jobs to them so the companies here don't have to follow simple pollution laws and they can pay the workers so much less.    If you buy any junk from them, YOU are helping to drive this country into third world status.

Answer 4

have you ever thought that economic growth in the direction of better understanding and control over our environment might lead to more real economic growth than starting a bunch of unwinnable wars with people you trained and armed over who can destroy the planet fastest?

Answer 5

So be it. At least they signed the Kyoto Treaty. And the US is still the worst for pollutants anyway.

Answer 6

Yes.  If the entire population of the world is threatened (and I beleive it is), it makes no sense at all to exempt the largest and fastest growing emitters!

Do you think it's a coincidence that China is in effect the developed world's manufacturing capacity?  We have to keep global corporations happy... so we'd better exempt their call centers in India as well.  It's genocide, pure and simple.

Answer 7

Sure.  It's why we need a new treaty to replace Kyoto.

China will be a tough negotiator, but they'll come around.  It's dawned on them that ruining the world's economy with global warming will not be good for business.

Answer 8

you are already third world

Answer 9

It doesn't annoy me one bit. It'll be nice when China is the major polluter and people blame China for greenhouse gasses instead of America. Then people will stop blaming America for the problems