tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post2804727308506595883..comments2024-03-26T09:49:07.212-07:00Comments on The Scratching Post: Why We Simply Must Get Rid Of All Incandescent BulbsK T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-78995414465921423472011-01-07T06:17:19.752-08:002011-01-07T06:17:19.752-08:00I thought the same thing. They wrecked their envi...I thought the same thing. They wrecked their environment to make a buck (yuan), not as an act of altruism. Meanwhile, Prius buyers made their purchases as an act of smugness, not as a real act of environmentalism.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-73628690307574176742011-01-07T06:05:02.971-08:002011-01-07T06:05:02.971-08:00In that Bloomberg article, the self-pitying air of...In that Bloomberg article, the self-pitying air of the Chinese spokesman makes me either want to laugh uproariously or punch him:<br /><br />“China supplied the world with very cheap and good-quality rare earths for more than a decade at the cost of depleting its resources and damaging its environment,” Wang Caifeng, who heads the government-affiliated China Association for Rare Earths, said at the conference. “The world should thank China.”<br /><br />So, they undercut everybody else's rare earth mines by using cheap, ignorant labor so that they could ignore even basic safety precautions; made it impossible for anybody even halfway responsible to stay in the business through their recklessness; and now that their chickens are coming home to roost, we are supposed to <i>pity</i> and be <i>grateful</i> to them?<br /><br />Ha. They can go soak their heads.tim eiselehttp://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.comnoreply@blogger.com