2007-03-08 09:55:32 · 7 answers · asked by Jose R 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Yes.
The extent of the impact will be based on the long term duration. If they place value on their citizen's lives and there are health affects, then it will severely tax their economy. Like the bird flu would, even though it's not strictly speaking an environmental issue.
2007-03-08 09:58:19 · answer #1 · answered by Wonka 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are working to reduce the effect they are having on the environment. The biggest advance they are working on is fusion technology for power plants. As apposed to fission plants, fusion creates and uses no harmful products (i.e. uranium and nuclear waste). They are years ahead of any other country in this field.
Their economy is on the way up and in no danger of collapsing. If anything they will overtake the US as the main superpower.
HELLO - Maybe you need some EDUCATION and help to undo that brainwashing. Wake up and smell the coffee, China will take your spot on top of the perch very soon. They have already taken over the world's manufacturing industry, militarily they kicked your *** back in Korea in the '50s and have been improving their defence force since and they can trump you with your biggest card - nukes. To top it off, they aren't despised by half the world.
Japan has black sand because it is volcanic. You talk about the pollution coming from China, have you looked at most of your own cities?
2007-03-08 18:05:08 · answer #2 · answered by homer28b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. destroying your environment will not lead to a collapse in their growing economy. China doesn't even feed its on people let alone deal with the external costs of the pollution they produce.
The guy above me has no idea what he is talking about. Have you been to japan and heard of the "yellow sand". It is the smog coming over from china that is absorbed by the sand on the Japanese beaches. Their economy is managed and innately unstable. There economy is the US economy and has been planned out to act like the US economy. We bear most of the risk in our decisions while they get the rewards.
There are many social issues the Chinese will have to deal with as people become worth more than 1 us cent. They will demand freedoms and many other things they currently do not have. The Chinese will never become a world power if they continue to work the way they do. They do everything in there power to work against the system and it will burn them one day. ENFORCE PROPERTY RIGHTS. The Chinese are not ahead in any technology of any sort. That is utter nonsense. It is a known fact that they run countless reverse engineering operations to pawn off other peoples property and ideas. Please get some edumacation.
2007-03-08 18:06:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
nope. if americans did a good job in studying history you would know we had acrid air, the waterways so polluted that you could see bubbles and films of chems on all of them. that is now cleaned up. laws have been changed. china will surivive just as we have and other western nations before them.
2007-03-08 18:01:07 · answer #4 · answered by CCC 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I think it will be wonderful for their economy because, as the Libs tell us, turning "green" is good for business. You could make huge profits fixing the mess you made. Twisted, but it makes sense.
2007-03-08 17:59:03 · answer #5 · answered by Benji 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they will pay for it one way or another. It's called karma
2007-03-08 17:58:26 · answer #6 · answered by *YAWN* 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In a word ~ YES!!!
2007-03-08 18:04:06 · answer #7 · answered by nuroticmom 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋