Samuel Fahnrich/Jan 25, 2008/3:45 pm.
Since the turn of the year, Japan has been urging China to cut their air pollution. Pollution from their rapidly growing factories that increase global warming just as quickly. However, this is not to say Japan will not be assisting the need for China, as both will be aiding the efforts. Due to China's sporadic industrial growth, the pollution problem has resulted before the proper environmental codes were in order. Now that global awareness has caught up with the popular players, there will hopefully be a steady push for the decrease of gases. However, this week, there seems to be a stronger push from Japan and not the US. It looks like Japan is about to take world rule here in a few years, acting as the police to the world... making the US its deputy? In this situation, not many people can take America serious when we can't reduce our emissions to the standards we claim for others. But at least China now has more gas than us, leaving an open door for us to blame them for.
With China suffering more environmental problems than ever, what will this mean for countries who gain their exports? I could talk about the toys full of lead, but why go there? What I do want to talk about is Japanese environmental aid to China. Japan is planning to help China reduce emissions with trades and transfers of environmentally friendly technology resources. These aids will reduce emissions and maintain productivity, with the Japanese flare of compact machinery. However, China doesn't want to pay high costs for these products, and Japan doesn't want to sell their technology cheaply. Which means the US will probably buy the machinery, lower emissions, and then blame everyone else for having gas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/world/asia/29beijing.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Latest+on+Global+Warming&st=nyt&oref=slogin
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