Comments on: Chinese Elite Breathe Cleaner Air Than Their Countrymen

By: AC

AC — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:44:16 +0000

We need to impose wage-differential import tariffs and environmental-protection import tariffs of Chinese goods.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:56:52 +0000

This is one place where government regulation in the US is working as intended. Thank you, EPA. Thank you, emissions testing in major cities. Thank you, environmentists who firmly believe that the success of business doesn’t necessarily depend on the business’s ability to pollute as it will. I’d rather have “job-killing regulations” (never proven, by the by) than people-killing pollution!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:21:50 +0000

This is what our own elite want…a pillaged world where only they have access to clean air and luxuries. The words communist and capitalist are meaningless holdovers of another area. We are in the era of plunderers who don’t care about anyone except themselves.

By: Steve D

Steve D — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:30:30 +0000

Surely it wasn’t that hard to get a picture of real smog instead of ordinary fog (note the ground is wet).

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:18:04 +0000

*in the U.S. :)

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:17:45 +0000

This makes me grateful for our clean air. Whether or not one is in favor of environmental regulations, it’s hard to deny how nice it is to breathe easy.

By: rich

rich — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:23:47 +0000

This is possibly how we (the u.s.) even up with the expansion of the chinese economy. They have wonderful production capabilities because of their lack of environmental regulations. Maybe the wealthy will choose to retire to somewhere with clean air. Maybe the u.s. can be that place. Interesting however it turns out.