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Stan Rogers
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World Traveler
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| No country in the history of civilization has polluted as much as China. Unfortunately, South Korea (a tiny country) is next to the section of China that is polluting a lot (rather than less polluted parts of China). That is bad for us. As China is such a huge country area wise, there are some parts of China less contaminated and polluted than Korea. Either way, pollution wise both China and Korea are way worse than the countries from whence we came. That's why I love my country (the United States) so much (and why I will be returning soon). Blue skies > gray skies. |
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radcon
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
| Either way, pollution wise both China and Korea are way worse than the countries from whence we came. |
You misused the word whence. |
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World Traveler
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edwardcatflap
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| 'Whence' means 'from where' so the 'from' is redundant. If you're going to use 'from' why not just say 'from where'? Or more normal still, 'where we came from.' It may have been in common usage since way back but it's still not logical. Reminds me of Paul McCartney singing 'but in this ever changing world in which we live in.' |
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optik404
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| 2% of the arable land being unusable doesn't seem like a whole lot. |
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World Traveler
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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2% is what the dictator government of China is claiming. Do you trust that figure?
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| Some scientists have given higher estimates of as much as 60 million acres, or one-fifth of the total |
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TheUrbanMyth
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
| . Either way, pollution wise both China and Korea are way worse than the countries from whence we came. That's why I love my country (the United States) so much (and why I will be returning soon). Blue skies > gray skies. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions#List_of_countries_by_2012_emissions_estimates
The U.S is estimated to produce about 8 times the CO2 emissions of Korea. Granted the U.S is many times larger than Korea...but it's only a little bigger than China and its CO2 emissions per capita are more than twice that of China. Whereas the total CO2 emissions of China are somewhat less than twice that of the U.S.
In 2008 (the last year that is not estimated) it was about 10 times that of Korea. In fact every single E-2 country (with the exception of South Africa) produced more CO2 than Korea.
Granted there are many wide open spaces in the U.S where the air pollution is low. But outside the big cities in Korea there are quite a number of places where the pollution is low as well. More than a few posters have pointed this out as well. |
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World Traveler
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| CO2's not really a poison if plants are around (which is the United States (and Canada); it's not concrete as far as the eye can see). Plants convert CO2 to oxygen. Did you learn that in science class back in elementary school? I did. (Man, the commonwealth educational system leaves a lot to be desired it seems.) CO2 is not the be all and end all of air pollution. There are many different factors involved- soot, heavy metals, etc. Chinese skies: gray. South Korean skies: gray. American skies: blue. Canadian skies: blue. China: yellow dust. South Korea: yellow dust. America: no yellow dust. Canada: no yellow dust. |
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