Hey so it turns out pressure from the masses really can promote change. You don't see too many articles about things that China is doing to help the environment, but today's newspaper had this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/world/asia/10lead.html?_r=1&ref=world
(summary: lead fumes caused 228 children to be sick, the local environmental official was canned)
China has been undergoing their own industrial revolution in the last decade or so, and in the process is wreaking havoc to the environment. Now, we maybe shouldn't be too hasty to judge because burning coal is how we got to the top as well, however, since then we have realized the problems it has caused. So while many of the super power countries are changing their ways and putting in plans to reduce the use of coal to help the air, China has been just as rapidly increasing their use. The country is rising and stomping out anything in their way, or so it has seemed. After the Olympics when there was so much pressure on them to clean up the air and the general area there seems to be more being done to keep the country cleaner.
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