Great leap backward

Really excellent article on the environmental debacle that is China.   Highly recommended reading for everyone but especially for my Chinese readers (if any).  It is truth, and they had better get off their ass and do something about it.   

Western countries as well had better consider that drastic measures may be necessary to force change in China.  Truly, it can be almost be equated to chemical or biological warfare; albeit unintentional.  If the rest of the world is being attacked, and people are being injured or dying because of it, it is incumbent upon us to do something about it.  I will write my Congressmen to begin with, and be thinking of what else I can do.

Download the_great_leap_backward.doc 

I don't want to hear the usual apologists argument that the US and the rest of the West did the same thing when they were developing.  It is a bullshit argument for a few simple reasons:

1) They didn't know any better at the time, and had no real mitigation options in any case.  China knows what it is doing and mitigation options exist.

2) The cross-border effects are so much greater

3) The potential scale of the issue is so much greater

4) Global warming did not exist as a concept or concern in 1900