Bulldoze To Build
Posted by Michelle Moquin on June 10th, 2014
Good morning!
Speaking of China…could we do any more harm to the Earth? Evidently the answer is “Yes.” This is so sad what we are doing to our mother Earth. This is just not good.
From Think Progress.
China Bulldozing Hundreds Of Mountains To Expand Cities
China is just about the same size as the United States, but livable land is in short supply. With the population and economy still growing at a rapid clip, the government has undertaken a plan to bulldoze hundreds of mountains to create land for building on.
In a paper published in journal Nature this week, three researchers from Chang’an University in China warn that the scores of mountains already being truncated is leading to air and water pollution, erosion, and flooding. With unprecedented plans to remove over 700 mountains and fill valleys with the debris, they warn that “there has been too little modelling of the costs and benefits of land creation. Inexperience and technical problems delay projects and add costs, and the environment impacts are not being thoroughly considered.”
Totaling several hundred square miles of newly flattened land, mountaintop removal has never been carried out at this scale, warn the authors, not even in strip mining operations common in the United States. These projects in China often ignore environmental regulations in search of profit and unadulterated development. Around one-fifth of China’s population, more than 250 million people, live in mountainous areas.
In the city of Yan’an, “the air is often brown with dust owing to construction teams working on windy days without dampening the soil,” write the authors. “Forests and plants on hills and in gullies are stripped ahead of the demolition and filling.”
The project in Yan’an will double the city’s current area by creating around 30 square miles of flat ground. It is the largest project ever attempted on deposits of wind-blown silt, which can subside when wet and cause structural collapse. The scientists warn that such infill projects have never been used for urban construction.
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June 10th, 2014 at 12:41 pm
What in the hell is the world coming to? We are literally attacking the earth and destroying in our own generation.
June 10th, 2014 at 1:24 pm
Of course, Carlos, have you not picked up on my dry wit here in the past…it’s merely observation about behavior and that was my dry witted point, hee hee hee…
Choe, hopefully that’d be a given.
Last time I was in China they were doing a bang up job of erecting entire empty cities for future ‘infrastructure’ so they must’ve run out of the flat land to destroy and the were also burning a huge amount of coal…yikes…if mother earth could speak she’d be PISSED OFF~!!
***(& btw, the US is not too far behind for killing off nature’s resources so I’m not putting down only China in my statement)
Luv, Zen Lill
June 10th, 2014 at 6:36 pm
NO way America is as bad as China. But you are right Zen Lill, we could use some green earth training.
June 11th, 2014 at 9:55 am
Was a time, and not very long ago, when the USA was by far the world’s largest producers of Co2 and other forms of enviromental pollution. We are still the world’s largest consumers.
Much of the rest of the planet’s industrial polluters do so to meet the USA’s demand for their products, since most manufacturing has been outsourced, along with the jobs, to other countries. Where enviromental restrictions on pollution output is practically nonexistant. Wages are next to nothing compared to wages here, which isn’t saying all that much.
So the USA may not be the biggest enviromental hazzard on the block these days, the USA is still as responsible for the enviromental mess this planet is in as much as anyone else could be, if not more so.
China’s pollution output right now is second only to their population. With over 1.35 billion people.
All of what I wrote is just my opinion, the only actual statistic is the population of China.