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How much money would it take to clean up China's Environmental problems?

• Or is money not the issue, but "how". Are they completely helpless, because it's just too large of an issue due to lack of control? I always known about China's pollution problems, but after seeing these images, it made me sick. So, I'm just a bit curious, after perusing Google on the issue. http://www.businessinsider.com/china-water-pollution-2013-3

• Answer:

  Throwing money at the issue is not the solution. In fact it is quite probably the problem. Money stimulates the economy and creates more industry and thus more pollution. The western world didn't clean up their pollution because they spent money on it. They didn't really clean up their pollution at all - they exported it. All those factories, steal mills, chemical plants and such like, that have closed in the west didn't just disappear. They re-spawned in the east in countries like China and India. I can speak from personal experience. My home town was known as a dirty city. It was a city of the industrial revolution. Factory chimneys and ship yard cranes formed the sky line. Steel, ship building and textiles were the big employers. The city smelled, the air was dirty, the river water was funny colours, no fish swam in the rivers and the building's stones were blackened by the pollution. Today my home town is clean. There are salmon in the rivers and you can even see seals swimming in the water. The air is clean and fresh. Why - how much did this clean up cost? The clean up costs thousands of jobs. The shipyards are almost all closed, the steel mill is now a housing estate, the thread mills converted into apartments, the coal mine is now a tourist museum and the city population is dropping as people move elsewhere for work. The only way to reduce the pollution in the world, is to reduce the amount of things be buy and use. You can't point the finger at China or India when the T-shirt on your back has "made in China" written on the label. It is every bit as much your pollution as anyone else's.