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China’s Toxic Crises: Real-Life “War Of The Worlds”
Are today’s dangerous levels of pollution over Beijing, China’s capital, going to turn into deadly levels in the coming months? What is China going to do? Enter “War of the Worlds.” U.S. beware.
by Mark Lawrence, Copyright © SecretsofSurvival.com. All rights reserved.
Even with windows closed and air purifiers running at max, smog fills homes in Beijing and there is no escape from the haze clouding the capital of over 20 million people. What happens when the Chinese government has no easy solution? China may become desperate. They need clean air.
And that should scare the U.S. Because — America, a nation rich in farmland, natural resources and clean water — has it all.
The reports coming from the far east paint a grim picture for life today in Beijing, China’s capital. The people are being poisoned. Heavy industry, a huge population of people, and millions of automobiles on Beijing’s crowded streets are pumping toxic gases into the air around China. The people, the land, and the water supply are fast becoming toxic to life.
There’s no easy fix. And America should be very, very concerned about that.
We’ve seen this scenario before in the movie, “War of the Worlds”.
In this case it’s America that has the clean air and abundant land.
China might do anything in the coming years to have it.
Notorious for Smog, from Bad to Very Bad
Time Magazine reports (2/28/2013): “Beijing, a city already notorious for its smog, has seen some of the worst air quality in memory over the first weeks of 2013. Much of the blame has rightly been aimed at coal burning, the rising number of vehicles, the low quality of fuel standards and industrial pollution that blows in from surrounding regions.”
The air quality can be so bad that even with doors and windows closed and air purifiers running in homes, the living rooms can have a hazy smog. Read that again. Imagine trying to watch tv through a thin haze of polluted air. How long could you put up with that?
Time Magazine reports (1/14/2013):
“This weekend, my family barricaded itself behind closed doors, with only the briefest of toilet breaks for our dog. As the air pollution in Beijing reached record highs, the view from our 16th-floor downtown apartment dwindled to something more akin to a sandstorm in Afghanistan. Air purifiers that cost upwards of $1,000 ran at full throttle. Still, the haze permeated our living room, with pollution levels some 40 times what the World Health Organization (WHO) considers safe.” Read more: Beijing chokes on record pollution
The picture of pollution emerging out of Beijing is clear. They are slowly poisoning themselves.
Reuters reports (3/17/2013):
“Street-level anger over the air pollution that blanketed many northern cities this winter has spilled over into online appeals for Beijing to clean water supplies as well. The rotting corpses of more than 12,000 pigs found this month in a river that supplies tap water to Shanghai drew even more attention to water safety.”
“…Nationally, environmental complaints have sparked unrest and even riots, to the alarm of the stability-obsessed ruling Communist Party.” Read more: China’s new premier vows to tackle pollution, offers few details
Alarm Growing in China’s Communist Party
China shouldn’t be the only nation alarmed at the dangerous levels of pollution that are going to one day soon wreck havoc in Beijing.
I think America should be alarmed as well.
Why? Because of the possible consequences: How China’s government might respond.
I call this scenario, “War of the Worlds”.
War of the Worlds
China’s air quality is so bad, and the number of people in Beijing so enormous, that it’s government is likely to make one of two choices: Either, they move their entire government out of Beijing to a safer area of China, with cleaner air, which is only a short term solution, and doesn’t address the pollution threat to the several million people living and working in Beijing. Or China might do this:They may decide that the U.S. (and Canada) have plenty of clean air, lots of available farmland, and in recent years, they may also like the fact that we have lots of oil drilling taking place on U.S. soil; it’s said in fact that the U.S. may be able to end it’s dependence on foreign oil a lot sooner than ever thought possible in previous years.
America has it all: Clean air, land, water, and oil
In science fiction, that’s a lot like an alien civilization on a dying planet looking for a new planet to call home, and then spotting earth, with all the conditions ripe for life, across the galaxy.
Due to China’s huge population of people (we’re talking more than 1.3 billion people compared to the 300 million people in the U.S.) most likely the industrialization and heavy use of automobiles is only likely to bring toxic levels of pollution to more areas of China; it’s a long term crises, a crises that could result in the toppling of an empire from within.
If we can see the possibility of that, surely China’s military planners can as well. And they’re a lot smarter than most of us are over here. In fact, it’s been said in recent years that China has the largest percentage of geniuses than any other nation on earth. That’s a lot of smart people.
A Chinese fortune cookie might say: “A smarter enemy is a dangerous enemy.”
China may set its eyes on America, but there’s a catch
There’s a problem, obviously. America is an occupied nation. Many of it’s citizens are armed. It’s those guns in fact that may deter an occupation; a foreign military force may realize that there would just be too many problems trying to reign in an armed civilian force, and it may be a fight they’re incapable of winning completely.
It’s very possible that …..
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