The world is full of people who forget that for every yin there’s a yan. Mother nature is the greatest balance tool ever seen by man. Treat her with disrespect, simply because you want to grow industry, and she lashes back. Take for example…China..the development beast!
In a small area of southern China, they can’t drink the water nor feed their farms. The mines dump their water, untreated, into streams which the chinese villagers used to take their drinking and irrigation water from. Now they are dying of cancer because nobody warned them that drinking “orange water” would cause this.
And if you think this is limited to one small area of China, it is estimated that 300million don’t have easy access to clean tap water!
Every development and every industry growth has a cost, if not mitigated and controlled properly. While coffers and pockets and ipod sales are growing in China, so is the heavy cost of runaway development. I suspect the “environmental cleanup” industry should look there for tremendous opportunities given what I’ve seen first hand.
Sass