Nickname: sil

Review: We see China as an Elephant riding bycycle, and with similar pollution effect they are forcing the elephant to enter a marshy land. China is huge. And basic secret of its accent to Economical super power status is by copying technology and producing them in mass. While pilferaging and developing they only taken care of one issue and that is the Growth. They neglected envioronment. Since 1980 in these past 28 years what they have done cannot be undone overnight. But Globally sufficient pressure should be build up to force China not to ignore this aspect as well. This is required because we do not know how deep within them China has realised the harm they have caused.

Date reviewed: Mar 26, 2008 6:07 AM

Nickname: spade eyer-er

Review: This issue reminds me of a phrase: "We are dangerously experimenting on the only home we have." Here's mine: "We are choppin down a tree branch we are perched on.". The point is Earth is the only livable planet around. At this pollution rate, almost all land will be covered by water. By then it won't be a matter of economic supremacy it will be a matter of surviving. Then it will eventually dry out and when it does, we'll see life on the course of premature extinction. We are living beings therefore we are expansionist. We want to exist so we multiply. We are faced with and understnd the fact that life will end but a few billion years from know. That's pretty reasonable because by them we would have figured out other places to live. But faced with this pollution situation that's not going to happen. How about we think of life rather than power at this time.

Date reviewed: Jun 30, 2006 1:58 PM

Nickname: Anthony

Review: Vijay Singh's indian nationalism is very tiresome. Before claiming Indian supremecy, look first at the staggering poverty rate and decrepit infastructure. china has vast pollution problems, but that will further the push for green technology, a huge new sector in which China could very well dominate. Little chance of that in India given its weak manufacturing sector. Becoming richer than China in the next fifty years is a nationalist pipe dream.

Date reviewed: Jun 29, 2006 3:13 AM

Nickname: gannbare

Review: Please don't juggle my comment. . . I didn't say to ask the foreign companies to pay the bill...but foreign businessmen in China.

Date reviewed: Jun 20, 2006 3:15 PM

Nickname: VijaySingh

Review: China's growth potential will hit a deadend because of environmental issues. India will never have such issues simply because India's economy is knowledge-based. With India's 1.1 billion+ brain power, India will overtake China by 2020 and maybe even U.S. by 2030 as the No.1 economy. Take this, 40% of Silicon Valley companies are Indian-owned. Indians are the driving force behind the U.S. IT boom.

Date reviewed: Jun 20, 2006 7:37 AM

Nickname: Fatboy

Review: I am glad that finally people see some truth and begin to talk freely about the cost and penalty of China's booming economy. However, it is so sad that most of the people, especially people in China who are sufferring, can do nothing about it.

Date reviewed: Jun 20, 2006 2:17 AM

Nickname: lao wai in xi

Review: Mulla, two different issues? If so, why do we have any pollution then? Besides, it's quite costly. Apart from our lives etc., the government has to pay 200 billion per year. That is hurting any business, isn't it?

Date reviewed: Jun 20, 2006 1:41 AM

Nickname: EOD

Review: The idea of economics and ecology being "different issues" is an ignorant one. No one can drink from a poisoned river, but the rich can afford the one glass of good water, paying for it from the profit gained from polluting the river in the first place. It is the most prevelant human quality of the day; get rich, no matter the cost. Pollution and suffering on a global scale, so very few enjoying the riches and 98% of the rest of the planet, it people, its fauna and flora dying horribly to keep these people fat, ignorant, rich and oblivious to things such as a healthy planet and a happy neighbor.

Date reviewed: Jun 20, 2006 12:45 AM

Nickname: Stella Maris

Review: Amazing to see such defensive reactions here to what is a well-measured and objectively written piece. BW is not telling anyone to do anything, and yet it's being viewed as Us vs. Them! Yes, the U.S. pollutes and citizens have been fighting it for a long time. But China's population is a big worry. Hopefully, information such as this will help people realize in the end that there's no such thing as "China's pollution" or "America's pollution." We all suck it in -- it's everyone's pollution. What do we do about it?

Date reviewed: Jun 19, 2006 5:15 PM

Nickname: hungtc

Review: I agree with AK. Please keep Canada clean & away from any pollution, please...

Date reviewed: Jun 19, 2006 5:07 PM