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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts) Sat Aug 22, 2015, 11:58 AM Aug 2015

ANOTHER Chinese chemical plant explodes.

An explosion has been reported at a chemical plant in China's eastern province of Shandong.
The People's Daily said a warehouse at the Runxing Chemical plant exploded and firefighters are at the scene.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34029202

Strange co-incidence..............

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ANOTHER Chinese chemical plant explodes. (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Aug 2015 OP

"Strange co-incidence.............." Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #1

4,000 people in China DIE from pollution each day. PatrickforO Aug 2015 #2

Scarier: 43,835 babies born per day on average in China dixiegrrrrl Aug 2015 #3

Far fewer now that the pro natalist Mao has been gone so long Warpy Aug 2015 #4

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)

1. "Strange co-incidence.............."

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 12:19 PM

Aug 2015

"Once is happenstance. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is enemy action." -- Auric Goldfinger

PatrickforO

(14,593 posts)

2. 4,000 people in China DIE from pollution each day.

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 12:34 PM

Aug 2015

This is really scary.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

3. Scarier: 43,835 babies born per day on average in China

Reply to PatrickforO (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 01:04 PM

Aug 2015

18 million per year.

Warpy

(111,367 posts)

4. Far fewer now that the pro natalist Mao has been gone so long

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #3)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 02:20 PM

Aug 2015

China's laws have seemed Draconian to outsiders but the PTB knew that cutting the birthrate was the only way they were going to survive the famines that happen in parts of China periodically.

Unfortunately, there are still so many people that life is cheap. They're just now beginning to realize that allowing businesses to pollute land and water will bite them. They're just now realizing that coal power plants have to be a stop gap while other resources are developed. They're also just realizing that smoking is a bad idea, especially for their educated people.

I know people in Shandong and they're downwind of the blast site. They're the visitors who taught me how to cook Chinese food. I hope they are OK.

ETA: Seems to be another storage facility for nitrate fertilizer:

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