Thick dust is choking the air and settling over every living thing in China. Linfen, China is probably the most-polluted city in Earth. Farmers wheat crops are diminishing due to dark, sooty, and hollow kernels. Crops like cotton too fragile to survive, via Digital Journal:
The cause of all this is coal pollution. But nobody in China care enough to investigate it. The soil is covered with a layer of grey soot and tree leaves are laden with dust. Even cabbages and other foods are blackened. Bees and animals don’t come to the flowers of the apple trees and coal pollution is causing great harm to the agriculture of the city…
Inhabitants don’t realize that in a global scale, China has largely ignored the fact that they contribute massively to global warming. China is responsible for 90% of the rise in world coal consumption in recent years. There are 21 000 coal mines and produces 70% of energy in China, but the country is among the top ranked contributors in terms to carbon dioxide emissions and global warming…
CHINA and other developing countries are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol‘s rules for cutting the production of greenhouse gases. They argue strenuously that they should be allowed the same historical privileges that allowed the industrialized nations to develop their economies, even if it means a sharp increase in global-warming gases over the next decade or two. [Full Text]
