Glen Mills just forwarded this one:
Olympic nightmare: A red tide in the Yellow Sea
BEIJING: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.
www.iht.com/.../china.php
Then there was this:
Olympics clean-up Chinese style: Inside Beijings shocking death camp for cats
Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Olympics-clean-Chinese-style-Inside-Beijings-shocking-death-camp-cats.html
This was early on, but it sounds like they will have as much as half the amount of cars on the road by banning all government workers from driving:
Olympians air a gripe about Beijing
March 12, 2008
Matt Reed was 1,500 meters into the last segment of the triathlon when he found himself gasping for oxygen. His legs were still pounding away at the pavement, his body pumped up after cruising through the swimming and cycling contests, but his lungs were shutting down.
The 32-year-old triathlete from Boulder, Colo., blames air pollution for triggering his asthma attack during the September track meet.
articles.latimes.com/.../fg-olyair12
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You missed my point: the slaughter of "pets" is a question of cultural or personal issue. The U.S. doesn't slaughter cats, and India doesn't slaughter cattle. For the slaughtered animal, be it cat or cow the question is of life or death, it is all slaughter. Is a cat a "higher" and more deserving animal that cannot be slaughtered in comparison with a cow? Or a cute chicken? As for pollution, I wasn't referring to the pollution in each individual city or of the air over China, but to its contribution to global pollution, which is what affects us or me. As for drinking water and such, I don't get the connection between that and the Olympic games.
You missed my point: the slaughter of "pets" is a question of cultural or personal issue. The U.S. doesn't slaughter cats, and India doesn't slaughter cattle. For the slaughtered animal, be it cat or cow the question is of life or death, it is all slaughter. Is a cat a "higher" and more deserving animal that cannot be slaughtered in comparison with a cow? Or a cute chicken? As for pollution, I wasn't referring to the pollution in each individual city or of the air over China, but to its contribution to global pollution, which is what affects us or me. As for drinking water and such, I don't get the connection between that and the Olympic games.
