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Corrupt State polluting the World

China polluting the world?

No, it is the evil Chinese Communist Party that is controlling 90% of the factories and power plants in China!

The EVIL dictatorship is certainly replacing the U.K. and the U.S. in terms of producing cheap products. Unlike the U.K. and the U.S.however, this EVIL regime's labor protection laws and air pollution control are as bad as those of the U.S. and the U.K. a century ago!

The production level is higher than those of the advanced nations 40 years ago by more than 600%, whereas the backward regulatory system in China allows the EVIL communists to freely pollute so that the production of each unit of output results in 300% more pollutant than that of other industrialized countries.

Simple calculation suggests that the world is 18 times worse than 40 years ago in terms of environmental pollution each year! Our environment is decaying at an exponential rate as pollutants accumulate over time!

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Coal mines in China more deadly than coal!

180 miners recently died in China working in some unsafe coal mines run by some Chinese Communist Party members. The communist owners of the mine knew there was a flood and yet they forced Chinese miners to go into the dangerous mine. All of the miners were eventually drown to death.

This is what happens when production is shifted from developed countries to EVIL dictatorial countries.

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All economists agree a control on externalities

10/10 economists will agree that externalities, public good, and other forms of market imperfection should be controlled by the government. However, carbon dioxide emission is a little more complicated than domestic pollution. It is more like open sea fishing. Imposing domestic quota restrictions in general will not be useful.

Moreover, carbon dioxide is not only a consumption problem but also a production problem. Consumers will create carbon dioxide by driving cars and by using more electricity. Producers will create carbon dioxide by using low quality fuel and inefficient power generating facilities. Different countries have different consumers' needs. Different countries have different energy policies and standards for production.

Something like Kyoto is necessary for controlling carbon dioxide emission globally. But the current Kyoto is junk; a much improved version is needed.

The "per capita" carbon emission proposal by the Chinese Communist Party make no sense because consumers' "demand" for carbon emission in China is just relatively very low. A "GDP" based carbon emission takes account of both consumers' demand and producers' demand for carbon emission and is, therefore, a more accurate measure. The new version should take account of each country's GDP growth allowing developing countries to emit more carbon dioxide over time.

Without a new Kyoto, domestic carbon dioxide emission control is meaningless. The reason, as I have mentioned long ago, is that capital is almost perfectly mobile. Without an international agreement and without imposing control on development countries, producers in developed countries will only shift their production to developing countries. Since developing countries are less energy efficient, such a shit will only increase carbon emission with no real gain, except for an increase in labor productivity in these countries.

Unfortunately, for developing countries, capital investment is both a blessing and a curse. In addition to having more carbon dioxide, there will also be more sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and carbon monoxide that tend to affect mainly the local environment. In term of air pollution and carbon emission, such capital movement is certainly not Pareto optimal because all consumers in the world will lose whereas producers do not really care.

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Per polluter or per capita CO2 emission

Perhaps it is true that the U.S. is creating CO2 pollution more than 3 times that of China on the so-called "per capita" basis.

But how about per "polluter" basis? Less than 5% of the Mainland Chinese population is creating a significant amount of CO2 that is comparable to that of an average Americans.

To be conservative, suppose 50 million Chinese are producing the world #1 amount of CO2. Compared to the 250 million Americans who are producing significant amount of CO2, on average, an average Chinese polluter is producing more than 5 times more CO2 than an average American polluter.

What is the solution to this horrible situation?

1. Stop globalization. Globalization means production is not only shifted from energy efficient countries to energy inefficient countries, but also from more ethical and regulated developed countries to more corrupt and unregulated countries.

2. Impose CO2 taxes (tariffs) on products imported from highly energy inefficient and unethical countries.

3. Impose quotas on dirty imports unless the product of origin can show proofs of CO2 reduction and guaranteed energy efficiency. This allows "ethical" developing countries to produce and restrict the pollution created by "unethical" developing countries.

4. Establish (CO2/exports) ratio figures for each exporting country. Sanction those countries that produce an excessive amount of CO2/export. This makes sure ethical developing countries will continue to grow whereas unethical developing countries will not be able harm our world any more.

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Country-base Kyoto is JUNK!

10 years ago China was still considered an extremely poor country; therefore, under the Kyoto agreement, it is allowed to be exempted from any restrictions.

Now what? China becomes the #1 polluter in carbon emission. Currently China does not agree with the Kyoto any more. It keeps creating global warming pointing the finger at the western world, claiming that per capita carbon emission, not carbon emission should be used as an indicator.

Guess what? The majority of Chinese are still rural farmers who do not pollute at all. The major polluters in China are state-run power plants, illegal power plants, and evil businesses.

Don't you guys see the problem? If you control the carbon emission in advanced countries, the polluting industries will move to developing countries that are very like to be corrupt dictatorships. Most of the citizens in these countries do not pollute. Dictators in these countries take advantage of per capita pollution quotas to pollute the world. Once you try to control countries like dictatorial China, dirty industries will move somewhere else, perhaps to Vietnam or even Sudan.

Since evil dictatorships like Sudan do not care about their people or the environment and they most likely have some close evil links with China, Mainland Chinese communists will rebuild their evil factories in Sudan and pollute the world as usual.

Now you want to control Sudan... and what is next? In the next 50-100 years, carbon emission will rise in double digits every year. We will be in ICE AGE by then!

Perhaps the so-called "natural scientists" should take some courses in Economics to understand what "capital mobility" means!

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Trusting simulation models? Talk to the weatherman

Simple simulation models can be used to estimate carbon dioxide emission by plants? Is it a joke???

Talking about carbon dioxide emission by plants in a static way is misleading! Isn't it obvious that the entire ecological dynamic system cannot be simulated using simple models. Go check with the weathermen and see what kind of lousy predictions they obtain using simulations. They can't even forecast the weather a week from today. And yet some biologists are coming out to tell people they can predict the effect of tree planting on green-house gas emission 5-10 years from today?

We are talking about an entire endogenous dynamic ecosystem with not only plants but also animals affected by exogenous environmental factors such as wind speed, humidity, temperature, type of soil, etc, pal!

The simple solution is carbon tax. Tax the polluters and subsidize environmental friendly technologies. Stop messing around with the ecosystem!

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Switching Focus

The Chinese Communist Party has been very tactical in changing the foci of serious problems.

When they are the worst in terms of hardcore toxic air pollution, injuring the health of all Chinese and all neighbouring countries, they start talking more about carbon dioxide (especially the Kyoto), which is nothing more than a non-toxic greenhouse gas.

When they are the worst in emitting carbon dioxide, they start to talk about the population in China, knowing that 95+% of Chinese do not own air conditioners and hence do not produce any significant carbon dioxide at all.

When the West starts to impose pollution tax, they argue the oppose. Let the West pay for them, the polluter, to stop polluting!

Folks, by the way, there are many ways to reduce air pollution in China. It is corruption, collusions with evil business, lack of education, and the good old "free-rider" effect that have progressively increased air pollution in China and the world.

Air pollutants toxic and non-toxic can be filtered. It is a matter of cost. Why should all consumers subsidize big corporations such as Walmart who purposely chooses the most polluting country to produce at the lowest cost to earn the highest profit, which eventually leads to intolerable pollution in the world?

Two solutions:

1. Tax evil Walmart for choosing the most polluting country to make its products.

2. Tax the evil Chinese Communist Party who purposely do not or dysfunctionally fails to  control air pollution.

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Emailed the Lady

I have emailed the organization that you have suggested. However, I believe the organization is somehow funded by money related to the SAR government. I will dig into this.

The reason I am saying this is, the Civic Exchange has join-forced with the University of Science and Technology (UST) to produce a report, saying that Hong Kong is responsible for over 50% of its own pollution.

What is ridiculous about the report is that instead of using some scientific approach, the professor (Dr. Alexis Lau) from the UST counted the number of days that Hong Kong is a major polluter on its own. The problem is, the wind blows from the south (the sea) in the summer so there there are about 200 days of clear sky in Hong Kong. This is already 66.7% of the number of days that China will not affect Hong Kong!

Some people are good at playing games with the "ignorant" public (in Hong Kong only 18% of high school students can earn a university degree!). I am afraid the Chinese Communist Party is trying to play exactly the same propaganda game that it has been playing in China for more than 50 years!

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Not Greenhouse Gas but Hardcore Toxic Pollutants

Whereas you guys are still talking about greenhouse gas emission, here in Hong Kong I am fighting hardcore air pollution (nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and ozone) from Guangdong!

The Special Administrative Region (SAR) government in Hong Kong has been blaming the two power generating companies for creating the smog in Hong Kong. However, it has been documented that the level of nitrogen dioxide produced as a result of power generation has been decreasing since 1997 as most of the factories have headed north.

http://www.freehk.org/images/power.jpg

Unfortunately, most environmental groups in Hong Kong seem to buy the government's explanation and give no pressure to the SAR government to take some real action to bargain with the Guangdong government. (You can imagine how badly the people in Mainland China are informed about air pollution in China!)

I have been fighting this battle alone in Hong Kong for two years now. I have created a (Chinese) website in Hong Kong discussing  the extremely high correlation between wind direct and occurrence of smog. (www.freehk.org)

The air quality in Hong Kong is the worst in winter because of the northeasterly wind blown from China. It is especially horrible when the wind blows from the northwest (I believe it is from Fushan, an area for heavy industries).

My worry now is, from my subjective observation in the past two years, some powerplants in Guangdong try to reduce their pollutant emission levels in day time and raise their emssion levels at night time so that no one can see the smog!

My videos on youtube about the relation between the wind direction and smog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK-q-k9XOsc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5wJTp6kYqo

I also found this video on youtube posted by a youtuber from Guam. Yes, the guy is complaining about pollutants from China affecting Guam!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEYnTAQ0Hq0

The situation is far worse than most westerners think! Very soon the entire west coast of the U.S. will be affected, not by carbon dioxide, but by nitrogen dioxide! You will see smog appear more and more frequently in LA!
On It's about more than money posted 2 years, 5 months ago 12 Responses

Do Some Serious Research Before Writing on It!

I am not going to read through the article because just point #1 is based on some subjective argument! A quick scan through the article confirms this!

In China, more 90% of the population are living in the rural area. Less than 0.1 billion people are living in cities. Amongst these city dwellers, less than half of them own air conditioners. And Yet China has managed to become the most polluted country in toxic gases, such as nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and ozone many years ago!

An European environmental group just confirmed yesterday that China has become the #1 emitter in carbon dioxide since 2006.

Now, the question is, who in China is producing all the evil pollutants to pollute planet earth? Definitely not common people in China.

The main sources of air pollution in China are illegal power plants and sub-standard industries. These power plants often collude with local officials of the Chinese Communist Party by bribing them. Some of them are even owned by the Chinese Communist Party members.

Yeah, you can blame international corporations for  buying "polluting" products from China knowing that they will eventually pollute the world. However, the Chinese Communist Party should also be sanctioned!

The ONLY solution:

Impose "pollution tax" on some products made in China! No consumer is willing to save that kind of dirty money just because they want to buy some dirt cheap Chinese commodities! Eventually, all consumers, from advanced nations or from developing nations, will suffer if no action is taken.

Who will benefit from air pollution? Evil businesses and dictators in developing nations!
On That you won't hear in the mainstream media posted 2 years, 5 months ago 18 Responses