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By Cam Walker, published 19/6/2006There are likely to be about 65 million environmental refugees in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Posted by MichaelK., Wednesday, 28 June 2006 7:51:11 PM
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Global warming, pollution and calling us selfish beings, now our governments are courting China, thinking they are the answer to our prayers.
China's Dark Clouds “Large areas of North-Central China have been devastated by the spectacular growth of the local coal industry. Severe pollution extends across Shaanxi Province, where the Wus live, and neighboring Shanxi Province, which produces even more coal.” http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13709 Then add the tons of coal imports from Australia to this list. “Damage to China's environment is costing the government roughly 10% of the country's gross domestic product, estimated Zhu Guangyao, deputy chief of the State Environmental Protection Agency. China's GDP for 2005 was $2.26 trillion“. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-05-china-pollution_x.htm More from the size of the corruption, makes the wheat board’s dealings in Iraq Look like kindergarten children. http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/27/china.tourism/ “The scandal involved Xiamen Yuanhua Group, accused of smuggling $6 billion worth of cars, oil, luxury goods and cigarettes. Here they turn it into a profit and encourage the tourist to view. Notorious tourism, Seven Senior communist officials, including a former deputy mayor and a former police chief were executed earlier this year for their involvement in the case. About a hundred people were tried on fraud and embezzlement charges. However, the corruption scandal has spawned an unlikely by-product: tourism“. Suppose we do have our share of gruesome tourism, in Tasmania. We do not hang the prisoners as such, just keep them in small cages & pay people to watch them. Other China attractions that Howard overlooks. “Include horror stories you won’t want to believe such as, the number of state executions, the Chinese government has actually created a fleet of execution vans invented specially to roam about the country carrying out the sentence on a daily basis. There are also suspicions that prisoner’s organs are being harvested for sale on the black market adding to the inhumanity of the practice.” Found at, http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=15637 Posted by ELIDA, Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:56:26 PM
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