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Social and environmental arbitrage, or why everything is cheap in China.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

A lot more pictures if you follow that link.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 02:22:02 AM EST
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Aaaaaaaaaaah, Mordor.  Created here on Earth by orcs ... sorry, I mean ... humans.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 09:16:21 AM EST
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The race for the bottom has a destination.

I am amazed that the Chinese leadership havne't woken up to what they're doing to the country. The evidence is becoming pretty obvious to anyone who looks. What do they need ot happen to convince them ? they're gonna lose 10s of millions in population within a few years if they don't stop.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 10:06:56 AM EST
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Well, that's the thing most people don't get. These pictures look horrible but it's so much better than being a Chinese farmer in some decrepit backwater. That's why people move to Mordor - it's better than Rhûn.

The Rhine looked like that shitriver 100 years ago. It doesn't any longer. And not because everything was sent to China but because we could afford to spend the money to clean up the environment.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 12:18:33 PM EST
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Not only the Rhine, but the steel city Pittsburgh looked like that in 1930. You could almost never see the sun, and it never became brighter than twillight. It was certainly the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

The world is full of these stories of shitholes that actually were cleaned up, and the environment here in Sweden hasn't been as clean in a 100 years as it is today.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 12:21:40 PM EST
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