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In reply to the discussion: The Smog In China Should Terrify You [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)abroad to spare Americans pollution. Old Mittens said that in a video, when he visited some a Chinese sweat shop. His comments indicated he believes taht some people are just meant to live with that, like some believed that blacks were born to pick cotton and Mexicans were born to pick vegetables.
They see different races as serving a purpose in this global scheme that they don't want them to rise above. That's the racist aspect, just like polluting the heck out of other countries with mining and fossil fuel companies. The money goes to the first world, the death stays in the third world.
Now it's coming here, with libertarians saying the only way to get our country going again is to repeal environmental and labor laws, etc. This could end up being worse than it's already been here. Minority and poor white areas have been sacrificed the most for polluting industries in the USA, just they were in Europe although they did it to the poor.
We have had warnings on the west coast about the smog drifting across the Pacific with pollution here. That's a long way for it to travel. It really is one world, I wish we could learn this in a more positive way tban this.