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| OECD paints bleak picture of pollution in China | |
| 2007-07-18 | |
(The report) says that as many as 300 million people are drinking contaminated water every day, and 190 million are suffering from water-related illnesses each year ... One third of the length of all China's rivers are now "highly polluted" as are 75% of its major lakes and 25% of all its coastal waters. Nearly 30,000 children die from diarrhoea due to polluted water each year. "A majority of the water flowing through China's urban areas is unsuitable for drinking or fishing," the report says. Although China is the world's fourth largest economy, growing 10% a year and closing rapidly on the US, Japan and Germany, its environmental standards are often closer to those in some of the poorest countries in the world, says the report. More than 17,000 towns have no sewage works at all and the human waste from nearly a billion people is barely collected or treated. Nearly 70% of the rural population have no access to safe sanitation... | |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #2 25 years ago I did my senior paper in Poli Sci on the effects of Communist economics on the environment in USSR. Zenster is absolutely correct. To site just one example Marx has a concept of the "free good" which means only human labor adds value. The upshot of this is that all natural resources, water, timber, minerals are wasted because only the purest forms are worth processing and their is no cost involved in waste. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2007-07-18 12:51 |
| #1 When history finally closes the books on communism, it will prove to have murdered more people, wasted more money and caused more environmental damage than any other form of government known to mankind. That the very few of communism's elite would benefit from the sufferings of so many and manage to do so all in the name of "The People™" will go down as one of the most monstrous ironies ever heard of. Unless Islam gets its hands on huge numbers of nuclear weapons, it can never even hope to equal the horrendous slaughter that communism has achieved so effortlessly. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-18 04:30 |