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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1638)	8/11/2005 12:55:56 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 24214

And in the middle of all of this... China Trade Surplus Rises to $50 Billion news.yahoo.com Exports surged 32 percent in the first seven months of the year, compared with the same period a year earlier, to $407.94 billion (329 billion euros), Xinhua said. Imports rose by a much more modest 13.8 percent to $357.96 billion (288.7 billion euros) — implying an aggregate trade surplus of $50 billion. All this means to me is more people buying more plastic crap than every before! And China needing more oil to run their factories and to produce plastic to make even more plastic crap. And more ships needing fuel to glide across the ocean to unload plastic crap in America. And more trains and trucks burning more fuel to haul plastic crap to more stores burning fuel to run their air-conditioning in summer and their furnaces in winter. and on and on and on. If people would just stop and think before they bought things -- and think, "Where did this come from" and try to either do without or "buy local" (produced locally), that would go one helluva long way towards cutting back on fuel, pollution, and resource depletion. Instead, everyone measures economic health, NOT in terms of "savings" (both currency saved for the future, and in savings of resources for future generations, and on wear and tear on the environment), but instead, by how much plastic and other crap is being circulated through the system, ultimately making its way to landfill sites, and by how much of the crap is bought with plastic. the whole thing makes me sick... truly.... it does. Gotta wonder what people are thinking. Is this what people want? Burn, baby, burn. ~croc