There is a huge dead zone off the coast of Beijing, an area where sea life cannot live, due to the abundance of pollution, and the fact that there is no oxygen in the water. Nothing can live there. This of course, is not uncommon to many coastal regions off the shores of large cities in the world, but one thing that is quite disconcerting is that China has dead zones, which are growing at a rate of 20-50 square miles per year. So, whereas their GDP is growing at 10% per year, it is the ocean that is paying the price.
More unfortunate is the fact that Chinese eat lots of rice and fish. If you take away the fish component and all they have to eat is rice. What will they do when they have a couple of drought years? After all, there are 1.3 billion (stated) Chinese in China, some say that number is off by 400 million. Nevertheless, whether there is 1.3 billion or 1.7 billion is there irrelevant because the reality is China cannot feed her people with huge dead zones off the coasts.
Grow Calendar 2011
There are now three very large dead zones off the coast of China and it is getting worse each year. Every year, China promises to do something about its environmental challenges, but as of just recently they haven't done anything. Most of what they have done is only for public relations purposes. In fact, China has fined and close down factories with American investment claiming that they were polluting the environment, when in reality they allow the 100% Chinese owned companies to get off the hook with a small fine.
In essence, they are using environmental laws to destroy their competition, without clean up their environment. In one instance the authorities in Beijing told the hotels that handle Westerners and tourists that come into China that they would no longer supply toilet paper, because it clogs up their sewer treatment plants. As soon as the tourists started complaining, they revised the rule and said they were just trying to do what was asked of them.
Perhaps, you can see a repeat pattern here and it seems to go along with everything that the Chinese do. For instance, the poisonous toothpaste, baby food, dog food, and the lead paint in the toys, and the chemicals in the drywall they sold US homebuilders during this last housing boom. These are serious issues, and the Chinese are just laughing at us here in the United States, as they continue to destroy the environment, refuse to float their currency, and continue raking in the dollars with a huge trade deficit to the US that is now hurting our economy.
Some folks that have looked into this problem believe the WTO should make a firm statement, but indeed they already have, and no real action yet in China. Should the United States citizens boycott all Chinese goods, that would wake them up, but no one really wants that. The citizens of the United States can and will enforce what is right and wrong in the world, even if China refuses to; well, if it ever comes down to that.
If China really wants to be the next superpower, they are going to have to think about these issues because they are real. Not long ago, I mentioned this to Guang Wu, the author of a new book; "China: Has the Last Opportunity Passed by!?" and he explained how much China was doing environmentally, and that there was more to this issue. Please consider all this, because we wouldn't let this happen with any of our other trading partners.
Dead Zones in China Off the Coast of Major Cities Growing at a Rate of 20 Sq Miles Per Year Grow Calendar 2011
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