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2007-07-18 China-Japan-Koreas

OECD paints bleak picture of pollution in China

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Posted by lotp 2007-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#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">Zenster 2007-07-18 04:30|| 2007-07-18 04:30|| Front Page Top

#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">AlanC 2007-07-18 12:51|| 2007-07-18 12:51|| Front Page Top

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