When criticized for its pollution from industrialization, the Chinese response occasionally is something to the effect of "why when USA does it, is it acceptable, but when China does it, it is wrong? China is merely using the exact same means USA used to get modern."
We can argue "now we know it is bad..." but that is nonsense because to become the world's worst polluter, the USA had to struggle for decades overcoming property rights in order to allow pollution. We knew it was wrong, and had to employ state power to effect the deleterious change. Just as the racist Jim Crow laws were state laws, not social practice, so it is with pollution in USA, it is now enshrined in law. You can find the history of this in the fine Marxist Harvard law professor's book The Transformation of American Law.
The reason we have such bad pollution, which scandalously encourages other countries to pollute as well, is that the progressives, with figureheads like Romney and Obama, seek out legal means to institutionalize pollution. By institutionalizing pollution by such means as "cap and trade" agreements the progressives cut a deal that allows polluters to keep polluting, while progressives pick up a sinecure managing pollution, and a halo to boot for being "against pollution" (as long as they can make a buck off it.)
Here is another Marxist, hitting the nail on the head:
I am radical. Everything that pollutes is an invention, a solution to a problem. There is no solution that cannot be improved upon. With property rights, it is impossible to "socialize costs" by spilling nasty effluents vaporously or otherwise surreptitiously onto other people's property. If, as it was in early USA, this would cost, then inventors would further refine their inventions, and eventually fully contain all pollution. But polluters get a pass, by the ever-bribable progressives. BP Oil, your green oil company. And what a busy year this was for BP after polluting the Gulf last year.
BP, Washington State, Feb 2012
BP, Texas, Oct 2012
Now China seems to be taking a different direction now. The people are not just voting to decide which 47% will be getting more free "stuff" but instead taking it to the streets when the state is polluting.
From Chinese Radio:
Thousands of protesters who marched through the eastern Ningbo City on Sunday against the expansion of a petrochemical factory won a pledge from the local government that the project would be halted.
The Ningbo government said in a statement Sunday evening that the city and the project's investor had "resolutely" agreed not to go ahead with the expansion.
The city's Zhenhai District, where the chemical plant locates, said Ningbo's Communist Party chief Wang Huizhong and Mayor Liu Qi held discussions with residents on Saturday night.
The Ningbo government said in a short statement on its website yesterday evening that the project wouldn't go ahead and that refining at the factory would stop for the time being while a scientific review is conducted.
The demonstration is the latest this year over fears of health risks from industrial projects, as Chinese who have seen their living standards improve become more outspoken against environmentally risky projects in their areas.
We need to see more of this in USA, and less of just voting for free stuff, financed by China. Radicals see a problem and get to the root (radix). Progressives are extremists. They see the same problem and and say "we are all going to die! We are changing planet earth weather patterns!" And then, change nothing, give me a paycheck to say more of the same.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
We can argue "now we know it is bad..." but that is nonsense because to become the world's worst polluter, the USA had to struggle for decades overcoming property rights in order to allow pollution. We knew it was wrong, and had to employ state power to effect the deleterious change. Just as the racist Jim Crow laws were state laws, not social practice, so it is with pollution in USA, it is now enshrined in law. You can find the history of this in the fine Marxist Harvard law professor's book The Transformation of American Law.
The reason we have such bad pollution, which scandalously encourages other countries to pollute as well, is that the progressives, with figureheads like Romney and Obama, seek out legal means to institutionalize pollution. By institutionalizing pollution by such means as "cap and trade" agreements the progressives cut a deal that allows polluters to keep polluting, while progressives pick up a sinecure managing pollution, and a halo to boot for being "against pollution" (as long as they can make a buck off it.)
Here is another Marxist, hitting the nail on the head:
William Z. Foster said of the Progressives in 1933.
The Progressive bloc also does not represent the interests of the producing masses. It represents the rich farmers and certain sections of small capitalists, and it supports the basic policies of Wall Street. During the present Congress the so- called Progressives supported the elementary proposals of the Hoover government to throw the burden of the crisis upon the producers. Their "fight" against the sales tax developed only when, in a broad movement of indignation, many millions of the small farmers, city petty bourgeoisie and workers demanded its rejection. Then, under the lash of Wall Street, they fled precipitately and proceeded, with later taxation, to undo the defeat of the sales tax. The only fight the Progressives ever make is for a few crumbs from the rich man's table.
The Progressive leaders, like their reactionary cronies at the head of the American Federation of Labor, fit themselves comfortably into the infamous two-party system. This constitutes a betrayal of the exploited masses into the hands of their capitalist enemies. The "non-partisan" policy is not simply an expression of political timidity, of hesitation to take the initiative in forming a new party; it is essentially based upon a political unity with the capitalists. We may be sure that if and when, under the pressure of the masses, a third party is formed, these elements will adopt the familiar devices of the Social Fascists to render it subservient to the capitalist class.
Practice shows that the Progressive policies are antagonistic to the interests of the exploited masses. They cultivate in the worst forms the democratic illusions so essential to capitalist control (pp. 237-38).
I am radical. Everything that pollutes is an invention, a solution to a problem. There is no solution that cannot be improved upon. With property rights, it is impossible to "socialize costs" by spilling nasty effluents vaporously or otherwise surreptitiously onto other people's property. If, as it was in early USA, this would cost, then inventors would further refine their inventions, and eventually fully contain all pollution. But polluters get a pass, by the ever-bribable progressives. BP Oil, your green oil company. And what a busy year this was for BP after polluting the Gulf last year.
BP, Washington State, Feb 2012
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BP, Texas, Oct 2012
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From Chinese Radio:
Thousands of protesters who marched through the eastern Ningbo City on Sunday against the expansion of a petrochemical factory won a pledge from the local government that the project would be halted.
The Ningbo government said in a statement Sunday evening that the city and the project's investor had "resolutely" agreed not to go ahead with the expansion.
The city's Zhenhai District, where the chemical plant locates, said Ningbo's Communist Party chief Wang Huizhong and Mayor Liu Qi held discussions with residents on Saturday night.
The Ningbo government said in a short statement on its website yesterday evening that the project wouldn't go ahead and that refining at the factory would stop for the time being while a scientific review is conducted.
The demonstration is the latest this year over fears of health risks from industrial projects, as Chinese who have seen their living standards improve become more outspoken against environmentally risky projects in their areas.
We need to see more of this in USA, and less of just voting for free stuff, financed by China. Radicals see a problem and get to the root (radix). Progressives are extremists. They see the same problem and and say "we are all going to die! We are changing planet earth weather patterns!" And then, change nothing, give me a paycheck to say more of the same.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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