My point of view starts by asking the question, “Does pollution from China impact the World Today?” And if Yes, then by how much?
I remember the day I really first made the big connection between human pollution and the risk it puts all living creatures under. On the radio, I heard about 400 (four hundred whales) committed suicide by beaching themselves in New Zealand, and again in my own backyard over 4000 birds die in the Yolo Bypass … That’s when I had a light bulb moment, it’s Climate Change! That’s why I feel compelled to do more research.
I remember the day I really first made the big connection between human pollution and the risk it puts all living creatures under. On the radio, I heard about 400 (four hundred whales) committed suicide by beaching themselves in New Zealand, and again in my own backyard over 4000 birds die in the Yolo Bypass … That’s when I had a light bulb moment, it’s Climate Change! That’s why I feel compelled to do more research.
My instincts tell me it’s the (continued) irresponsible and dangerous behavior of large developing nations. Yes, America had its time of industrialization, but we have learned from the past. Other developing nations do not have that luxury and so justify dumping chemicals directly into rivers, soil, and the ocean.
- 500 Million People in China are without safe and clean drinking water.
- A Large section of the ocean is without marine life because of massive algal blooms caused by the high synthetic nutrients in the water.
- The quality of surface water in the south of China was improving and particle emissions were stable. But NO2 emissions were increasing rapidly and SO2 emissions had been increasing before decreasing in 2007, the last year for which data was available.[10]
- A survey of 878 rivers in the early 1980s shows that 80 per cent of them were polluted to some extent, and fishes became extinct in more than 5 percent of total river length throughout the country. Furthermore, there are over 20 waterways unsuitable for agricultural irrigation due to water pollution.[12]
- Telegraph reported a case of an 8-year-old girl who had contracted lung cancer, becoming the youngest victim of lung cancer in China.[15]
- Lung cancer was two to three times more common in cities than in the countryside despite similar rates of tobacco smoking. Zhong
- Measurements in January 2013 showed that levels of air pollution, as measured by the density of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in size, were beyond index – higher than the maximum 755 μg the US Embassy’s equipment can measure.[17]
- Smog from mainland China has been observed to reach as far as California.[18]
We all live on the Planet Earth. We are all interconnected, we can no longer repress the fact that Chinese pollution affects all of us. “To get some perspective on how irrelevant [the] EPA’s plan is… a full year’s worth of[U.S.] annual reductions in 2025 would be offset by Chines emission in just three weeks. ” – Charles D. McConnell Executive Director at Energy & Environmental Initiative, Rice University said.
