IOC and multi-nationals complicit in subjecting world class athletes to world class pollution 3

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   carfree Posted 6:29 am
   07 Aug 2008

   Americans are guilty tooConsidering the USA exported most of our industrial production to China over the last 30 years, aren't we also culprits in the dirty air that is currently choking the heroic Olympians in Beijing?
   It's easy to point a finger. But take a look at where your computer and all the other gadgets in your house were manufactured.
   If we don't like dirty air in China, we should start making the things American consumers use every day, back here in America.
   Globalized capitalism is a much bigger villain in this story than dodgy Chinese bureaucrats.
   
   

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   archigeek Posted 1:40 am
   08 Aug 2008

   Sad, really...I feel for the Chinese people who, day after day, must suffer through this toxic, soupy atmosphere. The athletes get to leave after the games, but the Chinese still live there. It will soon become apparent--as cancer rates, obesity, heart disease, asthmatic incidents, and other maladies exacerbated by our modern age begin to consume the populace as toxic pollution and more Western-style eating habits start to take a toll of human physiology--that the Faustian bargain the Chinese made with global supra-nationals may have been a disastrous and ultimately lethal choice. We not only export(ed) our pollution, but our crippling record of ignoring the effects of unchecked industrialisation. Poor bastards. One good thing may come out of these games: the knowledge that if we had not enacted the Clean Air/Clean Water Acts, etc., we'd be in the same, or worse state. I hope someone in the MSM(or anyone, anywhere, for that matter)will make that connection.
   
   The mellotron is your friend.

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   Delay And Deny Posted 1:41 am
   08 Aug 2008

   AOC is with you
   
   http://www.foxsports.com.au/beijing_olympics/story/0,2731 ...
   ...asked if Games organisers had done enough to clean up the atmosphere, Coates said: "No. But I don't know what more thay can do.
   "This may well be permanent damage.
   "I am no world expert but to have significant pollution is a problem.
   "Let's hope that's one of the legacies of these Games is the realization of the damage that has been done and will continue to be done unless they are more careful.''
   Coates, a senior IOC member who commands significant influence within the Games governing body, is the first member of the Olympic movement to criticise the outcome of Beijing's environmental strategies.
   
   

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