New China pollution targets inadequate: Greenpeace (AFP)

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AFP - Environmental group Greenpeace on Monday praised China for setting new pollution targets but said the measures fell well short of what was needed to curb the country's world-beating carbon emissions.




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Why doesn't the Chinese government require each industrial establishment to recycle its own waste and garbage? That way the whole problem of pollution would be solved. The reason is that the money needed to do so would cut into profits so drastically that the managers couldn't pay themselves the big salaries and bonuses they demand as their price for mass producing the products needed by the growing Chinese population. But if 100% recycling is not required very soon, the accumulating pollution will continue to destroy the health of the Chinese people until so many workers are sick, production will falter and stop. This dilemma is happening around the World, but it's worse in China because they are growing their economy faster than any other nation on Earth, 10% a year the last I heard.

That brings up another dilemma. The Chinese claim they restrict their female citizens to one child per family, but then where do the people come from to move into new areas of economic development? Nobody can grow an economy without a growing population. If the Chinese economy is growing, and it definitely is, then the population must also be growing. So if and when will the Chinese leaders ask themselves this question: How many people can the Chinese territory support before they need to move into adjacent lands? Oops, that's already been happening in Tibet and Western tribal minority areas. That sure looks like modern Chinese imperialism. Hmmm. Whatever happened to Marxism/Leninism and working class socialism (?) Have the Chinese leaders abandoned their Communist ideology? Is so, what, if anything, has replaced it?