The World’s DIRTIEST NATION
Despite all of our efforts to be green, there is another country unraveling our progress.
China’s greenhouse emissions could negate progress made everywhere else. With their sweatshops, technology industry, and many other factories, China is smogging up…Now with all this going on, that pretty vase sitting in your house is not the only thing being “Made in China”.
How difficult would it be to strap some emission standards on a country with a population of 1,313,973,713 people?
Date: May 4th, 2007
Reference: Dirty
Link: Huge Nation
Link: Poison’s Progress
This entry was contributed by Hala Saadeh.
May 4th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
It does make you wonder — we are so concerned with our polution solutions in this country, yet, if you do not consider some of the other countries, eventually it won’t make any difference anyway. The air goes into the atmosphere, and we all end up sharing it anyway. I am surprised, however, that China does not implement higher standards for cleaning up their own environment.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
You hit it right on the nail…do you think that the United States uses “green-ness” as more of a political cover up issue…in order to deter the thoughts of more important issues coming up?
May 19th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
WOW, that’s nuts. China needs to get it together.
June 26th, 2007 at 2:37 am
Yeah the government loves it when other things take the forefront so that their lacking won’t be noticed. Such as environmental issues or Paris Hilton.