October 12, 2004

Who's got the dirtiest air in the planet? looks like China forgot to pay their cleaning bill.
posted by Warrior 20 years ago
  • Isn't globalization without pressure for reform grand?
  • As long as the bad air stays over China, this doesn't concern anyone but the Chinese.
  • I was simply using China as an example. The city where you live is probably under the red or green. Obviously this problem doesn't only concern the Chinese.
  • Well, Skrik, air has this bad habit of moving around the globe with utter disregard for borders. For instance, during the '80s, pollution from coal-fired power stations East of the Iron Curtain killed millions of trees in Western Germany and the Alpine countries (to say nothing about what it did at home, of course). Beyond that, there's also something called "human decency", which ought to make it our concern if fellow humans, even Chinese, have to live under hellish conditions due to misguided environmental policies over which they have no say and definitely no vote. Get it?
  • Oh yeah, I forgot this bit: /duh!
  • And the city where I live is not under the red or the green. The city I live in is too far north for the map.
  • I don't think Skrik would ever stoop to sarcasm.
  • Stoop? I reach upwards to sarcasm. I stretch after it, standing on tiptoes. I pogo after sarcasm, but as ever, it is beyond my reach.
  • I only breathe bottled air anyway, unlike you plebs. pffft! What affair of mine ees thees?
  • Wolof, I bet you didn't know that your air was bottled in a sweatshop in some third-world country.
  • No, it's just ordinary old air out of the tap which I obligingly pay a fortune for. I like the label on the bottle.