Asia Society's multimedia look at electronic waste shipped overseas and the toxic effect it has on places such as Guiyu, China--known as "trash town." With an interview with Michael Zhao of the Cen...
Asia Society's multimedia look at electronic waste shipped overseas and the toxic effect it has on places such as Guiyu, China--known as "trash town." With an interview with Michael Zhao of the Center on US-China Relations at Asia Society.
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This is the APOCALYPSE, as least it looks like it. Some Chinese guy was asked whether he wants to keep that stuff up. "Yeah," he said with a grin, "because the money's so good". BUT: he might not be aware he annihilates environment in no time which will affect FIVE UPCOMING GENERATIONS, that is, in the year 2100 maybe this is still able to feel. All these lakes of highly-toxic sludge and whatnot are produced by a generation which doesn't care a flying FUCK about upcoming ones.
Instead of bellyaching about what the American government should do about it, why don't you ask what I can do about it?!? Here is a start. Use your computer for as long as possible. My Mac is 6 years old. My best friend uses a P3 from around 2001 and it's fine. When you NEED a new PC, give the old one to someone who can use it. Place an ad in the local paper giving it away or for the price of the ad. Some local poor family could really use it and it stays out of the dump that much longer.
The solution is live in a cave,no electricity or electronics whatsoever.Thats the real solution and you know it.But why do we have to care about those chinks,anyway.
This idea that America is rich is absolutely insane. With the credit cards and home equity loans yanked, American consumers can't afford most of what they used to afford. Total US debt (consumer+gov+future entitlements) is so high as to be almost arbitrary since we can't pay it back anyway. The Chinese gov is rich. The only way America could help clean up China is by borrowing the money from China! Everyone wants to be good people, but be realistic about it.
And just look at the computer that mother fucker has. Multi-paned monitor and he talks about us being wasteful. I bet you he uses a computer for 5-7 years before getting a new one (Yeah, right). Let the Chinese clean their own environment and we can start cleaning ours. We can start with getting the huge island of plastic floating out on the Pacific ocean. The Chesapeake is a mess. You going to trust US to fix your environment?
That's just it, we don't dump this stuff on them. Their companies out bid our companies for the recycling contracts. The reason they are able to underbid us is because they don't pay the full costs of disposal, they dump in on pub lands and waters. If the Chinese (and Indian) gov would crack down on the polluters, they wouldn't be able to underbid us and the cost would be more realistic and would be priced in the purchase price. But everyone wants something for nothing.
None of this could possibly be due to the corrupt governments these countries have, right? Their willingness to turn a blind eye to the environment and the worker is somehow America's fault, right? When PC's were a business product and their true cost were actually paid, they were usually several thousand dollars.
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Here is a start. Use your computer for as long as possible. My Mac is 6 years old. My best friend uses a P3 from around 2001 and it's fine. When you NEED a new PC, give the old one to someone who can use it. Place an ad in the local paper giving it away or for the price of the ad. Some local poor family could really use it and it stays out of the dump that much longer.
Everyone wants to be good people, but be realistic about it.
Let the Chinese clean their own environment and we can start cleaning ours. We can start with getting the huge island of plastic floating out on the Pacific ocean. The Chesapeake is a mess. You going to trust US to fix your environment?
If the Chinese (and Indian) gov would crack down on the polluters, they wouldn't be able to underbid us and the cost would be more realistic and would be priced in the purchase price. But everyone wants something for nothing.
When PC's were a business product and their true cost were actually paid, they were usually several thousand dollars.