This is according to a government report, demonstrating that the situation is so severe that the Chinese government isn't even going to attempt to cover it up or downplay it.
Considering that China accounts for the largest agricultural output in the world (granted, very little of it is exported) this is a troubling revelation.
I believe the entire world should work to help China with its ecological problems, because it's really only a canary in the coal mine for the rest of the world--countries like India and Nigeria would do well to pay attention.
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to him who loved them so.
Where the faint murmurs now dwindling
echo o’er tide and shore."
-A Grave Epitaph in Santa Rosa County, Florida; I wish I could remember the man's name.
The price of development. I wouldn't be surprised if China and India, the world's 2 most populous countries, end up becoming pollution-ridden wastelands within another 40-50 years.
China's carbon-dioxide emissions through fossil fuels is lead
ing the pack with a cool 26% of the global total.
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He probably meant "per capita". Still even then it is in line with other countries in the developed world. Above France and Italy, slightly below the UK.
On an individual basis, we're all far more evil and destructive than the Chinese. Just yesterday I personally felled half a dozen redwood trees.
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All they want is their goddamn pick-a-nick basket. They'd stop voting for pro-industry if we just gave it to them already.
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My house sits where a foundry used to be. We got the soil tested tested for contaminants last year (after living in the house for 12 years) by the local authorities. The guy asked me 'have you ever grown food in your garden?' I said no. He said 'good. Don't. Or you won't be in the house another 12 years'
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