CHINA ADMITS ITS POLLUTION PROBLEMS

     Back on September 2, 2005, this Blog reported the story "Space Sensors Show Massive Surge in Chinese Air Pollution" (see right-hand side of this page under "Categories-Global Warming").  What a shock this must have been to the politically-correct environmentalist community, which of course tends to view the West in general, and the United States in particular, as the font of the world's environmental mischief.

     Now, even the Chinese government admits that the country is a major environmental mischief-maker in its own right.  Today's Los Angeles Times reports that "Despite steady efforts to protect the environment in recent years, China's pollution continues to worsen in the face of relentless industrial growth, the Chinese government acknowledged Monday": 

     According to a [Chinese] State Environmental Protection Administration report released Monday to coincide with World Environment Day, 60% of the country's territory is considered ecologically fragile. About 90% of the country's grasslands are facing degradation and desertification. Vast wetlands are withering and shrinking because of farming and industrialization.

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