Latest comments posted about Three R’s for surviving environmental change on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1634-Three-R-s-for-surviving-environmental-change http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1634-Three-R-s-for-surviving-environmental-change Text 1 or 2 to 1069999301 to China Red Cross, donate RMB¥1 or RMB¥2 to the Sichuan's disaster zone and dedicate our love. May love be in our heart. Please forward this message to everyone you know. Tue, 13 May 2008 12:12:14 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1634#comment-7364 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1634#comment-7364 The question of moving the capital raises some very big issues. (Is the idea to reduce the size of, and environmental demands on, present-day Beijing and its ordinary citizens, or to give the politicians a nicer place to work?) Any new city, whether a capital or not, should not duplicate the negative aspects of today's cities. New cities need to be sustainable in energy, transport and other infrastructure aspects, as well as having clean air and water and other attributes of an improved quality of life for those who will live there -- without depriving nearby regions of their water, agricultural land and other resources. Planners need to think very hard about these things and avoid repeating the mistakes of the past by simply transferring old problems to new regions. Matthew Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:49:44 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1634#comment-6998 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1634#comment-6998 Check out my post about the War on Poverty at http://peoplepowergranny.blogspot.com. Vote in my poll on what should come next in the fight against poverty. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:05:26 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1634#comment-6984 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1634#comment-6984 Water scarcity and air pollution are probably good enough reasons in themselves to move the capital from Beijing, I would say. Add to that the pressures of rising sea levels, increased storm surges and extreme weather events etc. and it doesn't seem to have great prospects for the future. But more to the point, what about Shanghai and Tianjin? Is it time to move westwards? Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:24:29 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1634#comment-6977 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1634#comment-6977 Where are you planning to live when the coastal cities in China disappear. Is it time to move the capital now? Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:36:05 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1634#comment-6973 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1634#comment-6973