Pics of pollution in China

[War Horse]

http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/

Is this what no regulations looks like?

[Harmony Blue]

1. Yes

So much for the free market working it out huh?

:sarcasm:

[ClarkUSA]

2. Ditto for India, where folks melt down lead in pans they later use for cooking.

[Rex]

8. Or the Ganga river...so polluted it carries the risk of fire!

And people bathe and drink daily from it's waters!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb_yDBmRgmU

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Love canal used to be like that too

Then industry hatin' libs came along...

:sarcasm:

[Rex]

10. So is the Rio Grande

Disgusting waste water river now. :(

[villager]

3. whenever anyone talks about China's economy "reigning" for a long time...

...they always forget the imminent eco-collapse that will afflict them.

The rise --and fall --of empires is much swifter now.

[progressoid]

4. We did that a hundred years ago.

But on a smaller scale.

[tridim]

5. Republicans jerk off to pictures like that.

It's their vision of utopia.

[fishbulb703]

6. So horrible. In 10-20 years this will be a paradigm shifting catastrophe. Expect war.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Yep pretty much

One reason it is so much cheaper to produce crap there...is that...no regulations means no controls. Bravo for the free hand! And THAT is where the chamber of commerce wants to take us back to.

[mwrguy]

11. Thomas Friedman, fuck you.

"One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/opinion/09friedman.html

[Prometheus Bound]

12. That looks like the end of the world.