Meanwhile..in China...

BEIJING – A state news agency says more than 100 villagers in eastern China have been poisoned by lead emissions from a battery plant built in a residential area.

The official Xinhua News Agency cited health and environmental authorities in Zhejiang province as saying Friday that tests showed that 139 people from three villages in Taizhou city had elevated lead levels. The sickened included 35 children.

The report says three villagers had lead levels three times the limit considered safe for humans. But none of the 501 villagers tested required hospitalization.

China is the world's largest producer and consumer of lead, a key component in lead-acid batteries needed for the growing number of vehicles in the country. New cases of lead poisoning regularly occur.

what's not to love?

They will have to repeat living through this crap. Of course, the US is rapidly trying to go back and join them.

they would still follow the same path,
even more so.
as Naomi Klein said, China is capitalism on steroids.

Explains why everything made in China has lead in it.

for the sake of economic growth. And multinational corporations and their political tools think the US should do the same if we want jobs to return here.

do you know how expensive it is to comply with enviromental safeguards? Jeeez, next thing you'll want is clean air and water.:sarcasm: