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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKweise Mfume: "The jobs are in China, Indonesia..." On Hardball describing
the lack of jobs in Baltimore.
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Kweise Mfume: "The jobs are in China, Indonesia..." On Hardball describing (Original Post)
muntrv
Apr 2015
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Yeah, I want to hear Obama explain how his TPP will improve things in Baltimore
tularetom
Apr 2015
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tularetom
(23,664 posts)1. Yeah, I want to hear Obama explain how his TPP will improve things in Baltimore
Egnever
(21,506 posts)3. That is laid out pretty clearly here.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)2. True..
But something that is always completely ignored in that is the environmental damage that is being done in china for those jobs.
China's environmental crisis is one of the most pressing challenges to emerge from the country's rapid industrialization. Its economic rise, which has averaged around 10 percent annual GDP growth for the past decade, has come at the expense of its environment and public health. As the world's largest source of carbon emissions, China is responsible for a third of the planet's greenhouse gas output and has sixteen of the world's twenty most polluted cities. Life expectancy in the north has decreased by 5.5 years due to air pollution, and severe water contamination and scarcity have compounded land deterioration problems. Environmental degradation cost the country roughly 9 percent of its gross national income in 2008, according to the World Bank, threatening to undermine the country's growth and exhausting public patience with the government's pace of reform. It has also bruised China's international standing as the country expands its global influence, and endangered its stability as the ruling party faces increasing media scrutiny and public discontent.
While I would certainly like to bring the jobs back I do not regret missing out on the environmental destruction that went with them.