Blame China For Global Warming
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No obsession. They just seem to be in the news alot. Was jsut looking at the news and came upon the pics of the pollution and was amazed. Decided to post about it.
Now I have a German thread incoming.
Duck Rodgers
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I like China a lot, but it's pretty gross most of the time. And then when you factor in how many people smoke there, you're breathing a lot of foul ****.
Just for some perspective, the four cities they studied are absolutely massive. Bejing's metro is 25 million, Shaghai is 30 million, Guangzhou is around 15 million , and Xi'an is around 10 million depending on how you portion each city off. So let's say anywhere from 60 million - 80 million people in that block of cities depending on how you want to portion them off. So those numbers seem a lot less scary after you take that into account.
How many millions have been lifted out of poverty? How many millions have amassed wealth? There's no debate. There are still too many poor people in that country to abandon course now. You have to bring up the bottom before you start caring about these types of issues too much. If there anything they do while they keep progressing, they should certainly be open to trying though.
Just for some perspective, the four cities they studied are absolutely massive. Bejing's metro is 25 million, Shaghai is 30 million, Guangzhou is around 15 million , and Xi'an is around 10 million depending on how you portion each city off. So let's say anywhere from 60 million - 80 million people in that block of cities depending on how you want to portion them off. So those numbers seem a lot less scary after you take that into account.
How many millions have been lifted out of poverty? How many millions have amassed wealth? There's no debate. There are still too many poor people in that country to abandon course now. You have to bring up the bottom before you start caring about these types of issues too much. If there anything they do while they keep progressing, they should certainly be open to trying though.
Marty McFly
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I'm moving to Wuxi (an hour or so out of Shanghai) either this summer or fall and am pretty worried about this, even though it's nowhere near Beijing. I get bronchitis a lot here and am hoping the pollution over there doesn't cause it to flare up more often.
Conservation is a luxury of the rich. The responses make China sound like 1940's America, as would be expected of any other country entering an industrial age. The US was this dirty if not *** times more in the past.
For anyone who actually cares, Carpe Diem Blog semi-regularly updates the benefits of nat gas lowering US carbon emissions. It's something from a seven factor (??? units) to a five factor, or roughly 28% in just a few years. The blog has a string to push in regards to drilling, but it's not just nat gas. America hasn't used any extra electricity for home conusmption for 50 years in spite of adding 50,000,000 households (onto 70,000,000 then) and all the appliances of the modern world. We also have been on a downswing in gasoline consumption since 2005 (something I'm betting money on continuing) in spite of the SUV transformation & adding millions of vehicles onto our roads.
Capitalism, it's ****in cool eh?
*Edit* The first three stars are "x" "X" "X". Just another unexpected censor.
For anyone who actually cares, Carpe Diem Blog semi-regularly updates the benefits of nat gas lowering US carbon emissions. It's something from a seven factor (??? units) to a five factor, or roughly 28% in just a few years. The blog has a string to push in regards to drilling, but it's not just nat gas. America hasn't used any extra electricity for home conusmption for 50 years in spite of adding 50,000,000 households (onto 70,000,000 then) and all the appliances of the modern world. We also have been on a downswing in gasoline consumption since 2005 (something I'm betting money on continuing) in spite of the SUV transformation & adding millions of vehicles onto our roads.
Capitalism, it's ****in cool eh?
*Edit* The first three stars are "x" "X" "X". Just another unexpected censor.
Duck Rodgers
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No ****? You going to teach English or something?