2007-07-26 15:03:09 · 9 answers · asked by robbob 5 in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
I think china has just installed enough wind generation turbines to power a country the size of Australia but they are still building many non renewable power sources. They are shutting down factories and stopping heavy vehicles from entering Beijing during the Olympics to minimize air pollution
2007-07-26 20:33:58 · answer #1 · answered by smaccas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say they care as much as we insist they care.
I think they are now finding that, with some of their poor environmental management practices impacting the safety of the food, pet food, toys and other products, that the chickens are coming home to roost.
As we have come to realize that there are problems with what is being sent to this country, then it will diminish consumer demand for products from China in a way that all the concerns over working conditions never could.
You want to know when the USA started getting serious about product safety? It was at the time that the book "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair came out.
It was about the meat packing industry in the US in the late 1800's/early 1900's. It's a good read.
2007-07-26 22:20:36 · answer #2 · answered by Deke 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Getting more serious every day. Two reasons.
People are actually dying of air pollution there. Killing off your citizens is rarely a good idea.
They are coming to realize (like a great many American corporations) that, while dealing with global warming is expensive, dealing with the effects of unreduced global warming is ruinous. The 1930s would look like economic good times.
2007-07-26 22:20:30 · answer #3 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Yangtze is dried up, their water isincreasingly undrinkable, the air is unbreathable. The pollution eventually takes care of the polluter.
2007-07-27 00:40:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
China is on track to add 562 coal-fired plants - nearly half the world total of plants expected to come online in the next eight years
2007-07-27 04:45:10 · answer #5 · answered by osborne_pkg 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most experts believe they care, but the system is to corrupt for the top bosses to do whats is needed immediately. It's a large country, and it's alot for a few to do the right thing. I'm not saying the top doesn't have their problems though.
2007-07-27 03:12:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They do not care about the poison they are putting in dog food or people food, what makes you think they give one iota of thought about pollution (except for when it kills Chinese).
The thought process is one reason why the Chinese told the UN to stuff it when it came to the Kyoto Protocols.
2007-07-26 22:21:38 · answer #7 · answered by Christmas Light Guy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would say it ranks toward the bottom of the list of things they are concerned about.
2007-07-27 00:33:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think they are like the states were in the height of their industrial revolution .. they just dont care at this point ...
2007-07-26 22:10:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋