Olympics pollution?

Question

Do you think the Chinese thought they would have so many people complaining about the pollution. And the effects on the athletes.

Answer 1

The Olympics are always a soapbox for political activists, this one is no exception.  The effects on athletes will be easily measured by noting how many records are broken this year as compared to past events.  Everything else is typical grandstanding.

Answer 2

I think that in China we will find less pollution as in America. Olympics are the symbol of unity of the world through sports.

Answer 3

They tried fruitlessly to clean up the city and even wanted to use electric buses but it seems that it all fell apart due to the tremendous and painstaking planning that it takes to plan one of those events.  

I wonder how they did so well in Los Angeles?

Answer 4

Los Angeles is a modern City. China is coming out of the communism and is third world but developing.  In the process they are really putting out a lot of pollution.  I think the biggest problem is the small extremely cheap, extremely inefficient vehicles they manufature.  I think they figured they could control everything with a central power.  That is the leftist mantra that is seldom works in the real world.

Answer 5

The Totalitarian governments of the Left and the Authoritarian governments of the Right share a common weakness;  their blind lust for limitless power leads them inevitably to exceed the "limits of governance" as students of the Roman Empire called it.  Between the situation with Tibet and their innumerable issues with the Olympics, this may very well turn out to be a first rate disaster.