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To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (102108)	7/30/2013 6:04:45 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 218056

Yep John Oliver did a great job describing how it works for you on the daily show LOL it would be fun to hear the take on the Chinese from either Daily Show or Colbert report or better.. both :O)

To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (102108)	7/30/2013 6:34:15 PM
From: Snowshoe	1 Recommendation Recommended By dvdw© Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218056

It's complicated. Their dynamics are better than ours in some ways, but worse in others... China's Bad Earth Industrialization has turned much of the Chinese countryside into an environmental disaster zone, threatening not only the food supply but the legitimacy of the regime itself. online.wsj.com THE SATURDAY ESSAY Updated July 27, 2013, 2:39 a.m. ET Estimates from state-affiliated researchers say that anywhere between 8% and 20% of China's arable land, some 25 to 60 million acres, may now be contaminated with heavy metals. A loss of even 5% could be disastrous, taking China below the "red line" of 296 million acres of arable land that are currently needed, according to the government, to feed the country's 1.35 billion people. ***** Removing heavy metals from farmland is a complicated process that can take years—time lost for farming. That is a chilling prospect for a government tasked with supporting 20% of the world's population on less than 10% of the world's arable land. Any major reduction in food security would hurt the Communist Party, which has staked its reputation in part on its ability to keep the country's granaries full with minimal imports. The government's refusal to release its soil survey, meanwhile, has only added to fears that officials know more than they are willing to say. Launched to great fanfare in the state media in 2006, the survey was originally scheduled to be completed in 2010. In June last year, an environment ministry official told the Xinhua news service that more than 20% of soil samples in a trial program for monitoring pollution, involving 364 rural villages, had failed to meet national standards and that the results of the survey would be published "at the proper time." "There's a general feeling that government officials know the problem is really bad, and if they disclose it, then the public outrage will get ahead of the ability of the state to do something about it," says Alex Wang, an expert in Chinese environmental law at the UCLA School of Law.