Reply #2: Well, they're certainly not immune [View All]

[Dead_Parrot]

Desertification is eating the country alive, there's pollution on a scale that Soviet East Germany look like Switzerland, and the Banqiao collapse was an energy disaster writ large - around 300,000 killed and over 10 million made homeless, sick or otherwise affected (But then, hydro always has been the only renewable to scale things up properly ;) )

Oh, and let's not forget the "Period of Three Difficult Years", back around 1960, when due to "mismanagement" anything up to 50,000,000 Chinese dropped dead of starvation.

So no, not immune. But nor do they entirely hide it, either: You'll find stuff on Bangiao, the "Period of Three Difficult Years", the Songhua River Benzene spill, the Beijiang River Cadmium spill, Chinese desertification - and of course, my personal favourite, the bubbling white liquid that the renewables peanut gallery seem so reluctant to address - all filed away in a search engine near you.

I think the basic truth is that we don't know because most of us just don't give a shit - it's too damn far away, and they are not us. We've got more important things to worry about than a few Chinese.

Hey, look! "Dog nurses nine orphaned kittens"...
Awwww.