Quote Originally Posted by p3titexburial View Post

China's history of just struggling to survive is deeply ingrained into the culture--when you have eight younger brothers and sisters at home with a sick father, you don't think about "oh, wow, I'm killing the environment." Once the country stabilizes, it, like all the rest, will start moving towards environmentalism, especially with pressure from other countries. You have to remember that countries like China with political instability (the cultural revolution being less than a century ago) will be slower in development than one that knows exactly where it's at.
you act like that's a valid excuse. China has existed as a country for how long? how much longer should we give them to clean up their act?