So, what do you suggest? The government closing down the factories it owns / forcing companies to close factories. Maybe force companies to build new high tech factories which don't pollute? Anyway, we are looking at some really really big chances which would make a very noticeable difference in just a few years, not something like "increase spending on public transportation".
... Name one country that has archieved the same (or even close to the same) while still reducing the amount of pollution they create. There might be some but I can't name any. And please, if you have an idea how to effectively decrease pollution by a very large % in under 10 years while having no or very little negative impact on economy then share it with us.
My point is that no country is going to destroy their economy just so they can say "hey, we reduced the amount of pollution we create"
that's my point, closing factories, and banning cars might make the air cleaner for a few weeks, but it's not a manageable or sustainable change, it's just a band aid type measure that doesn't solve a problem. which will be back in force in just a few weeks after the games have finished!
so far as naming countries that cut pollution whilst also managing to maintain industrial growth, well, the UK did manage it.
though that's a moot point since the way that UK managed it was through the reduction of use of smog producing products, (like coal), in favour of cleaner fuels, (like a treated coal such as anthracite), trouble is (and why the point is moot) is that china already uses clean burning fuels.
China? Their ecomony sucks. Their average worker makes less than a dollar an hour. Outside of Bejin, you are mostly likely a farmer, and probably have a limited education due to the fact you have no money.
We are all in the same boat. Its not my country that defines who I AM.
I was going to correct you on the one family one child law, however someone got there first.
I'll elaborate on it though.
families can have more than one child, however, if they do the family will be fined. I'm not certain if this is still current, though I was listening to a radio programme a few weeks ago where it was also said that the second child isn't exactly registered as a citizen, and hence can't go to school to be educated etc and thus life is made a lot more difficult
on the subject of earning less than a dollar an hour, I guess that you didn't know that China has the best record, worldwide ever for lifting the population out of poverty, (that is to say that the most people in the shortest amount of time has been lifted to be above the poverty line).
I left the last line of your post in my quote because I quite liked that, it really sums up the arguments as far as I can see, I'm not knocking china after all it's only a country. it's almost amazing how much debate has been generated by a simple event such as this series of athletic events.
When the Olympics come to London in four years, I doubt that they will drag cameras around the city to illustrate the gang violence, countless murders, large population of homeless people and all of our unemployed.
it's almost guaranteed that before the Olympics happen here in the UK in 2012 that there will be a massive focus on cleaning up London, painting over graffiti improving roads, all things that should be being done anyway, not special cause other people are likely to see it. No, I doubt that they will focus on trying to make London look any worse, undeniably they'll want to make it look better and shield certain bits, and the same analogy will apply, they'll be polishing a turd. not really improving it.
