what is it with the chinese, they have messed up developing countries environments . what should we do?

Question

though they call it investing in the third, what do you think ?

Answer 1

China is only doing what Western countries did a few decades ago!

We have no right to dictate to them when we are as guilty of the wrong doings in our past.

Answer 2

While the West tinker with 'green' policies that are more to do with government revenue than the environment, the expansion of Chinese industry is the real cause of the increase in world pollution.
The West must stop buying cheap disposable good from the Far East and get used to paying the higher cost of better quality goods produced at home. Instead of buying an £8.00 kettle every year, get used to buying a £50 kettle once in ten years. This will reduce pollution, ease the pressure on land fill sites, cut transport emissions and reduce world commodity prices.
This will not happen in the foreseeable future as the mighty retail conglomerates that own the politicians depend on cheap Chinese goods to maintain their turnovers.

Answer 3

Boycott all chinese made goods... and stop a tyrannist country who is on a roll to be the next super power. That is when all the people trying to defend china will start to cry. Do it before its too late. Sincerely speaking, I have a lot of Chinese friends but Chinese by nature are a race who try to inch themselves above the rest at any cost. Whats worse, theyre the most racist race ever...and nobody ever notices! What a shame.

Answer 4

They've messed up their own country big time! The construction of the Three Gorges dam destroyed some of the most beautiful land on the planet.

I started avoiding "Made in Chinese" products at Christmas and now try to buy products made elsewhere when possible. The Fisher-Price recall, the pet food scandal, and other recent events seem to validate that choice.

Answer 5

I was appalled when watching a TV documentary on the latest conquest of Tibet by China. There is no simple answer other than prayer and keeping our minds free of conflict and hatred. The collective consciousness is presently far to negative by the thoughts and minds of many, holding in place these warring energies. If we can loose these mental creations and replace with love and light, then there may be a chance of bringing to cessation the destructive element that presides.
As an agroforester I was very hurt at how China has caused massive deforestation in Tibet. My task is now to forgive and create a new world within my soul that is fully forested and full of love.

Answer 6

Bear in mind that the Chinese are only developing at the speed they are because we're asking them to make things for us because they make them cheaper than we can do it ourselves.

We demand cheaper goods and they make them for us. The fact that the Chinese people only earn a small fraction of what we would expect for the same amount of work and that they have very few rights or safeguards against exploitation and dangerous working conditions does not concern us.

Another thing that doesn't seem to worry us is the fact that the materials used in their products have often been banned in the west (lead in childrens toys for instance) but we don't even bother to check things like that until somebody raises it as an issue.

It's not the Chinese who have messed things up, it's greedy people in the developed world. all the Chinese are trying to do is bring their standard of living up a bit closer to ours.

Answer 7

Humans everywhere are messing up the whole planet's life support environment -

trying to blame US or China, or EU, (and the bodies they control like the World Bank) is just saying, in a round about way, that nationalist boundaries & interests are out of date when the carrying capacity of our finite planet is reached.

Similarly blaming big oil, Nike, McDonalds or Starbucks, ignores the problem of an economic system predicated on infinite industrial growth/debt which is naturally unsustainable on the said finite world.

Answer 8

Only governments and big business can solve the China problem. All the public can do is boycott Chinese made products - but we're FLOODED with them, so you'd pretty much need to live in a cave to be without them - PLUS it's often only obvious it's China made by a tiny little hidden label after you've bought it. I'd like retailers to clearly state where products are made (especially online shops) so I have a choice not to buy them - they do this with fresh produce in the UK, so they should also do this with all products.

Answer 9

What a good question.

What we should do is stop buying anything MADE IN CHINA.

But no one cares about the Chinese-

Poisoning our atmosphere.

Executing 4000+ people a year.

Jailing 800000 a year

Convicting 98% of defendants.

Mass public executions.

Forced abortions

Forced sterilizations.

Humanity has been replaced with hypocrisy, greed and selfishness.

Stop buying Chinese products and watch the Chinese put their house in order and stop barbarism and pollution.

Answer 10

After the west got developed at the expense of the world's environment, now they make so much hue & cry! Even today USA is one of the greatest stumbling blocks to signing a treaty.