Reply #12: You're totally focussed on the fact...

[iamahaingttta]

...that China burns shitloads of coal. It's true, China is polluting the planet at an unprecedented rate. Go for it. Make it stop. Thank you!

I'm totally focussed on the fact that Americans buy cheap plastic crap that they don't really need at an unprecedented rate. If we weren't so vapid and wasteful as a nation, maybe China wouldn't be such a huge polluter.

Hopefully, between the two approaches that we are focussed on, we can make some change. Just bear in mind what you're going to have to deal with once your pal Joe-Sixpack has to has to start paying higher prices at Wal-Mart for all that junk that he and Jane and the Joelets all go and buy each paycheck. Also bear in mind that the CEO's of the companies that manufacture all that junk are going to want to have you killed if you cut into their profits by demanding that scrubbers be installed all over their corporate serfdom of China.

I mean, you're right. You're so right. Don't stand near any open windows.