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To: longnshort who wrote (8629)	10/22/2004 8:57:14 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20039

longnshort > Why is China and Thailand exempt from the Kyoto treat? Also India, and others. Apparently, it's because they are "developing" nations. ecosecurities.com >>The Kyoto treaty binds industrial countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by about five percent of 1990 levels by 2012. Bush said emissions cuts would be too costly, and too many developing nations like China and India were exempt. << But China is paying the price -- in disease. Pollution etc are terrible. 64.233.183.104 >>The pollution is evident to the naked eye. The skies are always white in Shanghai and Beijing as they overtake the U.S. as the biggest producer of greenhouse gases; often the smog is so thick you cannot see across the street. As an emerging economy, they are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol. They are the world’s biggest consumer of coal, and energy needs will double by 2020. The water is contaminated, public health standards and enforcement are abysmal,and AIDS is a growing concern, estimated to beat a per capita rate reminiscent of South Africa 10 years ago. Tuberculosis is rampant, thanks to bad working conditions and intense air pollution. More than one third of the world’s population carries tuberculosis, an often latent bacterial infection that haunts China and much of the developing world. Public health officials have recently announced a very troubling connection between tuberculosis and AIDS. HIV apparently wakes up latent TB germs, which erode the lungs. In turn, TB agitates HIV, speeding its destruction of the immune system. This dual threat is a ticking time bomb for China. And most of the new entrants into the private economy have no health coverage.<<