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Yep a business paradise. No pesky EPA and such.
Now if we could just get the EPA out of our hair over here we could have the same thing.
Does anyone remember who the most over populated country is?
... juz sayin.
Does anyone remember who the most over populated country is?
... juz sayin.
oh sure KK---blame the breeders.
This time I'm just pointing out the obvious.
Does anyone remember who the most over populated country is?
... juz sayin.
oh sure KK---blame the breeders.
Just a very nice coincidence that it fits my opinion.
oh sure KK---blame the breeders.
Just a very nice coincidence that it fits my opinion.
and lax EPA standards have nothing to do with it ?
Bangladesh, which has 2,900 people per square mile.Does anyone remember who the most over populated country is?
The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center has reported air quality readings between 176 and 442 from its monitors throughout the greater Beijing area since Friday. The monitors measure the level of airborne PM2.5 particulates, which are tiny particles considered the most harmful to health. The air is considered good when the reading is at 50 or below but hazardous with a reading between 301 and 500, when people are warned to avoid outdoor physical activities.
Monitors in urban Beijing all reported readings above 300 on Friday, and the centers real-time readings showed Beijing remained heavily polluted yesterday with readings as high as 478 at 3pm. Monitors at the US Embassy in Beijing recorded an off-the-chart air quality reading of 699 as of 3pm yesterday. Readings can vary in different parts of the city and may also differ because the instruments used to measure the pollution levels are not always the same.
According to rules issued by the city government last month, all outdoor sports activities are to stop and factories have to reduce their production capacity if Beijings official air quality reading goes over 500. Air pollution is a major problem in China with its rapid pace of industrialization, reliance on coal power, explosive growth in car ownership and disregard for environmental laws. In Beijing, authorities have blamed a lack of wind and foggy conditions for the high concentration of air pollutants. Several other cities, including Tianjin and southern Chinas Wuhan, also reported severe pollution over the past several days.
Pollution making Beijing?s air hazardous to breathe - Taipei Times
Same in Iran. Without the environmentalists that is what our nation would look like.
China is promising to invest 4 trillion yuan ($650 billion) - equal to its entire stimulus package during the global financial crisis - on rural water projects alone during the 2011-2020 period. What's more, at least $200 billion in additional funds has been earmarked for a variety of cleanup projects nationwide, Reuters has learned after scouring a range of central and local government documents. That new cash injection will be vital, with rivers and lakes throughout China blighted by algae blooms caused by fertilizer run-off, bubbling chemical spills and untreated sewage discharges. Judging by Beijing's cleanup record so far, however, the final tally could be many times higher.
Over the five years to 2010, the country spent 700 billion yuan ($112.41 billion) on water infrastructure, but much of its water remains undrinkable. The environment ministry said 43 percent of the locations it was monitoring in 2011 contained water that was not even fit for human contact. "The reason why they have achieved so little even though they have spent so much on pollution treatment is because they have followed the wrong urbanization model - China is still putting too much pressure on local resources," said Zhou Lei, a fellow at Nanjing University who has studied water pollution.
A worker rows a boat in Chaohu Lake, filled with blue-green algae, in Hefei, Anhui province, China
A close look at publicly available documents shows limited environmental ambitions, as Beijing strives to prolong three decades of blistering economic growth and fill the estimated annual water supply shortfall of 50 billion cubic meters required to feed growing energy and agricultural demand. At the same time, the government faces growing pressure to address environmental effects of fast growth, as public anger over air pollution that blanketed many northern cities in January has spread to online appeals for Beijing to clean up water supplies as well.
The huge costs suggest that treatment, rather than prevention, remains the preferred solution, with industrial growth paramount and pollution regarded as just another economic opportunity, Zhou said. "They always treat environmental degradation as an economic issue. China is even using pollution as a resource, and using the opportunity to treat environmental degradation as a way to accumulate new wealth," he said, referring to business contracts local governments offer to big water treatment firms.
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