Rich countries are partly responsible for pollution from poor ones, including poisonous mining discharge, because they buy many of the raw materials and goods that produce the waste, environmental groups said.
The parts from your Plasma started somewhere, and someone in some country probably wrecked their land to get the raw materials for it.
"We have exported our industry overseas and yet there's no pollution controls in these places or the pollution controls are terribly inadequate."
This is ANOTHER dark side of free-trade bull. We love free trade because we can get cheap junk to buy, but we trade with countries with no workers rights, safety laws, environmental laws, fair wage laws, or any other government oversight. I don't mind trade, and I think competition is the way to go, but you need a level playing field first.
Blacksmith and Green Cross Switzerland, which works to clean up contamination from industrial and military disasters, released a report on Tuesday called "The World's Worst Polluted Places" -- available at www.worstpolluted.org.
It found that artisanal gold mining, contaminated surface water, radioactive waste processing and uranium mining and the recycling of used lead acid batteries, most of which occur in poor countries from Africa to Asia, are some of the world's top 10 sources of pollution dangerous to human health.
Millions of people are poisoned or killed each year by industrial pollution and emissions, it said.
Oh... so by the way, your a murderer too. I hope needing to watch The Amazing race is worth a few million lives..... killer.
This article demonstrates the massive difficulties in stopping pollution. Not only do the rich nation pump the most garbage into the air, third world countries are also destroying their environments to get the raw materials we crave to build our junk that pollutes.
Get the full story over at Reuters
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