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To: neolib who wrote (236033)	10/28/2013 2:15:19 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) of 543360

I posted this interesting Ted talk on the Chinese form of government awhile ago: youtube.com I have read a good deal about their problems with water and air pollution. There probably are technological fixes for many of them, but executing those fixes will be incredibly difficult. The central government has a lot of power, but de facto the provinces have their own form of power as well, giving the country their own "state's rights" issues. They have unleashed the "animal spirits" of capitalism, and the Chinese people have embraced it enthusiastically. Cleaning up the mess that the many individuals who want to participate in wealth creation at whatever cost seems overwhelming to me. The dearth of water in the north by itself has no real solution, unless they want to dam the Mekong or Brahmaputra Rivers and send the water to China, something that would not be appreciated by the rest of Asia to say the least. But this all gets very complicated. I have posted a few articles about these things in the past couple of years both on this thread and on the "Exxon-free" thread.

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