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To: cosmicforce who wrote (93386)	1/12/2005 1:34:08 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 108807

"I'm not really the one that you should be asking. That is the Chief Executive and Congress" Why would I ask the prez those questions? I already know that he does not favor restrictions on trade with China or any of the other things I asked you if you favor. "You are not correct about the "localized effects", BTW since agriculture water use is not local but usually imported from river resources (which are concentration points for effluents)." The effects of agricultural pesticide pollution, or other ag-related pollution like that from fertilizer (including organic) or sedimentary runoff, are concentrated (for lack of a better word at the moment) downstream from the farm and impact, primarily, aquatic animals and plants, birds (more from a loss of food sources than pollution itself), and human health (via drinking water) locally. Such pollution is not dispersed globally, which was the implication of your question to me. "Did you not read the link or is there a fundamental flaw with the assessments of the World Bank" Actually, your link indicated significant environmental progress in China over recent decades. But it didn't say anything, as far as I could find, about agricultural pesticide pollution being a problem, which was your original (implied) assertion. "I'm interested in knowing what you think about the problems I've brought up. So far it's a little one sided and I feel like you call the tune, and I dance with an answer. The matter should cause most reasonable people to a form a position, or is everything "fine as it is"?" Please be more specific.