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- On the list of World cities with the worst air pollution, China has four of the ten.
- Every year, some 700,000 die from toxic air and water pollution. It shut down a newssheet that tried to publicize this.
- It has "people moving---in great droves into already overcrowded cities."
- It overruled its environmental protection agency, saying their deadline for tighter emissions is impractical.
- It has smokestack scrubbers that lie idle because they cost too much to run.
- There are National regulations that corrupt local officials decline to enforce.
- It is now passing the US as the #1 source of CO2.
- 24,000 new cars, trucks and buses hit Chinese roads every day.
- This adds to world oil demand, boosting our own costs.
- With India, it is predicted to have 1,100,000,000 autos by 2050. That is more than in the entire world today.
But on the positive side,
- "100 million tons of CO2 are saved annually by co-generating plants in China."
- China has good rockets and contemplates sending men to the moon.
- They can adopt others' technology quickly, but don't invent the breakthroughs.
- It has the world's only operational Maglev super-speed train, at enormous cost.
- -- and is serious about extending that line soon.
From which one might conclude that:
- China values progress, regardless of environmental effects.
- It will stay that way. Forget the Kyoto protocol on emissions.
- It could become world leader in mass transit.
- Getting them to adopt Project 21 could happen soon, and might avoid hundreds of millions of additional autos fouling the globe's air.
