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Here's what heavy dependance on coal use and lax environmental regulations costed China in 2008 based on research:
China's Environmental Crisis:
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Life expectancy in the north has decreased by 5.5 years due to air pollution, and severe water contamination and scarcity have compounded land deterioration problems. Environmental degradation cost the country roughly 9 percent of its gross national income in 2008, according to the World Bank, threatening to undermine the country's growth and exhausting public patience with the government's pace of reform. It has also bruised China's international standing as the country expands its global influence, and endangered its stability as the ruling party faces increasing media scrutiny and public discontent.
So in 2008 China's GDP was ~4.5 trillion USD.... So it cost them 360 billion USD in lost productivity in 2008.
Wow... supposed 'free-market conservatives' demanding that we subsidize an industry that's being beat fair and square by cheaper and cleaner natural gas. With the excuse that at least people in said industry aren't "hood rats" (aka black people).
I wish I could say this surprised me. There's a reason Republicans cut education every chance they get.
Why should we subsidize and breathe pollution produced by a bunch of people who CHOOSE to live in an area that's been economically depressed for basically all of U.S. history?
At what point do those folks have a Personal Responsibility(TM) to move outta their daddy's trailer and go get a real job in the Big City like the rest of us?
How much pollution are you willingly to subsidize? Or do you think pollution doesn't have economic impacts? China is losing a few hundred billion USD per year because of their use of cheap coal and lax environmental regulations.
This does not address what I posted.
Get back to me when you call the power company to have your electricity turned off.
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