Latest comments posted about A way forward for China's environmental movement on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1338-A-way-forward-for-China-s-environmental-movement http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1338-A-way-forward-for-China-s-environmental-movement On the problem of environmental protection, every country wants to take advantage of each other, even a superpower like the United States does not want to take any responsibility on emissions reductions. A worldwide coordinating organisation has not been set up yet. A lack of systematic regulations is an important reason for the deterioration of environmental protection. Under these conditions, the goal will not be reached. A goal that is driven by civil society. LARRY Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:42:14 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1338#comment-4442 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1338#comment-4442 My opinion about this article: Foreign companies dump waste in China, (the 'waste trade') Is this not this driven by the economic benefits? Most of this waste is recycled. There had been a debate about this in the UK. The UK's recycling capability was getting weaker, so their waste needed to be recycled by others. In my opinion, the main reasons of environmental protection is not as good as expected, is the separation of local management and corruption. I am not against what the author mentions in this article. However, democracy is an abstract word, it is not as clear as rights, corruption and graft. Lots of polluters are the backbone of local economies, local officials tend to protect them rather than supervise and punish them. On the other hand, some of the environmental taxes can be returned to polluters in various ways. Common people's democracy should put pressure on officials to set up concrete and effective regulations. It is a big job. (Anya) Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:15:21 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1338#comment-4433 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1338#comment-4433 There have been several protests in China, in which the public have expressed support to environmental protection at the price of factory closedown. This means people prefer to protect their enviroment rather than speed up economic development. The question is that GDP is only the reason for officials to get promoted. So they will ignore pollution's impact upon the environment, as they could transfer to work elsewhere and even afford to migrate abroad. So the power of officials in China should have been checked and balanced to prevent corruption. This is also the cause of the worsening environment in China though efforts have been exerted to control pollution. been checked and balanced. Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:04:50 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1338#comment-4434 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1338#comment-4434 This is an interesting idea raised by the author. As we only have one earth, the global unity is the only solution to fight against national and conglomerates' interests. Could environmental protection communism become true? Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:21:43 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1338#comment-4440 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1338#comment-4440