China is playing catch up. There was a great NPR series on American pollution, how we built industry, how we dialed it back and how China is doing the same, but accelerating the dial back.
Now American’s are screaming, “Stop that!” Well, we did it first, got where we’re at. Reminds me of America wiping out malaria with DDT and 2-seconds later telling the rest of the world we’d cut trade if they didn’t also ban it. See how that works?
When I was a kid, the smog in Los Angeles was nationwide news. I was a child and knew about it in Tulsa! Leaving Manhattan in 1992, we all saw a brown cloud over the city. Thought it was rather cloudy until we got across the bridge and into the countryside.
Anyway, China is still building coal plants, still a monster polluter, but I see light at the end of the tunnel.
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China is playing catch up. There was a great NPR series on American pollution, how we built industry, how we dialed it back and how China is doing the same, but accelerating the dial back.
Now American’s are screaming, “Stop that!” Well, we did it first, got where we’re at. Reminds me of America wiping out malaria with DDT and 2-seconds later telling the rest of the world we’d cut trade if they didn’t also ban it. See how that works?
When I was a kid, the smog in Los Angeles was nationwide news. I was a child and knew about it in Tulsa! Leaving Manhattan in 1992, we all saw a brown cloud over the city. Thought it was rather cloudy until we got across the bridge and into the countryside.
Anyway, China is still building coal plants, still a monster polluter, but I see light at the end of the tunnel.