Letters to the Editor
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The PRC has dragged several hundred million people out of penury in only 20 years
I understand, and so do they, that it's not all aromatherapy, and magical unicorns for everyone but it's pretty damned impressive. Easy for the editorial staff of Salondotcom in San Fran to pout and scream that people living on $2500/year should be grateful to live at that level forever lest they corrupt Mother Earth and perish the thought that any more Chinese should ever not have to live in the same squalorous shack as their hogs because that would mean they're all big bad evil capitalists.
No one, and let me repeat that, NO ONE will do thing one about the environment when their own people need those precious resources to live and eat and develop. If you and a billion of your neighbors were poor, even by 19th Century standards and you watched your government toss all their money into Western Green Friendly projects with a payback in maybe 30 years, I bet you'd be pretty angry. Or maybe you'd just be too poor and hungry to care either way.