--- On Sun, 2/5/12, Alan Enzo<ecoenzo@gmail.com> wrote:
Found this minutes after I was ranting with one of our PDC students
about Polyurethane foam off-gassing and toxic plastic stuff from
China!
What is it with folks here blaming the entire population of China for
the planet's ecological woes? In the west, factories all kinds have
been belching out toxic fumes and polluting the water for more than a
century, and yet somehow, China is going to get all the blame? Where
do you think that they got all of this dirty technology from in the
first place? And why would the Chinese factories be producing all
this nasty stuff if there was not such an enormous market in the USA
and Europe?
Putting the blame on one race or nation is not helpful and certainly
does not fit in with permaculture principles. There are scores of
protests and demonstrations taking place every single day all over
the People's Republic and we should be supporting these forward
thinking individuals, not demonising the entire country carte
blanche. I suppose it is much easier to rant at a boogey man that is
thousands of miles away than one that lives next door.
Permaculturalists and environmentalists in China have a difficult
enough job as it is. If even their own peers and counterparts in the
West are quite happy to make them the fall guys, then what is the
point in them even continuing?
Chris _______________________________________________ permaculture
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