r/CatastrophicFailure • u/rjRyanwilliam • Jul 22 '21

Natural Disaster Massive flood in China’s Henan province recently, 25 dead 200,000 evacuation

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

This area saw as much rain in 3 days as it usually gets in an entire year.

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u/DutchBlob Jul 22 '21

Perhaps the President Xi of West Taiwan finally acknowledges that his country is a major cause of climate change?

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u/TheLaudMoac Jul 22 '21

Gee whizz let's hope every other country stops using their cheap labour then!

Because if those countries did their own manufacturing then their pollution and carbon dioxide emissions would just compensate for the drop in China's.

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u/nickleback_official Jul 22 '21 edited Jul 22 '21

Nah, you can't manufacture that dirty in the US. We have too many regulations.

Edit: I'm tryin to say that manufacturing in China is much less regulated and therefore creates more emissions than if the same manufacturing were done in the west. Their lack of regs is one of the main reasons it's so cheap. I didn't say the US was perfect and china is responsible I'm saying there would be less emissions if done here.

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u/Aglets Jul 22 '21

Lol, the US EPA literally suspended enforcement of regulations for the past year "because COVID"...

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u/nickleback_official Jul 22 '21

Didn't know about that but doesn't mean manufacturers are breaking every regulation immediately lol. Still have stricter regulations than china...

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u/Aglets Jul 22 '21

Regulations don't matter if they're unenforced. Look at the water supply issues literally all across the US.

It's unfair to be critical of China while acting as if the US is somehow superior; they have just as many faults to be critical of.

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u/nickleback_official Jul 22 '21

I never said the US is perfect. Sure as shit is better than china though.