Suicide

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/world/asia/14china.html?pagewanted=2&ref=world

This story is a perfect example of how we are killing ourselves and the planet in order to make a quick buck. China's huge Lake Tai has become so polluted from the chemical factories surrounding it that the 2 million local inhabitants can no longer drink from it, which is there main water source. The government, which is being controlled by corporations and money (4/5 of local tax revenue comes from chemical plants), is more focused on throwing environmentalists behind bars than solving the problem. It's easy to look at China and say "wow, what a backwards communist country," when in fact we are just as messed up as them. While we complain about them not caring about pollution or the environment, our population-which is 4.5 times smaller than China's-uses more energy. We're all killing ourselves.

kennett