Hypocrites22 Jun 2007 03:08 pm
By Nelson
I’m tired of people using china’s overpopulation problem as an excuse to allow them to polute. Heck, why don’t we all overpopulate our own countries just so we can be irresponsible too?
Ali Raza, Fort Collins, United States
You need a poke in the eye Ali. Poke yourself in the eye. Trust me, you NEED a poke in the eye.
China has actually reduced its population by over 400million in the past 30 years, though by unpopular methods of 1 child per couple, if that isnt a contribution to lessen global warming then I dont know what is.
The western world is factually liable for greatly increased world polution.
Figures for pollution & environmental damage have been available for over 50 years.
The great western economic powers used cheaper productivity costs & the carrot of increased living standards via cheaper prices to move much industrialisation & production away from the west, and of course there were the crys from commerce, who wanted to move production to Asia/China to increase profitability, regardless of the human & environmental cost.
I do not believe for one instant that scientists etc did not inform & warn our governments of the long term consequences of such a move, yet they still went ahead and allowed it to happen.
It was nonsensical to move production to countrys where human rights and low standard production methods are guaranteed & then to blame the same people for increased environmental damage by making/producing goods/products on the wests behalf, & then by doing so, provide money for them to build bigger stronger army that can then threaten our own safety.
In law, if you incite or entice someone to break the law then you are just as guilty for that crime.
The west has encited & enticed China to pollute the world on our behalf, anyone who buys cheap Chinese goods is just as guilty of pollution & humane rights violations as the Chinese government.
Which in effect the majority of us, if not all, are guilty.