The Heavy Pollution in China should Warn Third- World Countries
Posted on Sunday, 27 December 2015
The
Heavy Pollution in China
Should
Warn Third -World Countries
By Apolinario Villalobos
Manufacturing countries that clandestinely
hate China have successfully inflicted a “slow death” on the awakened dragon of
Asia. They have simply transferred the production aspect of their business in
China because of her cheap labor and with it, the byproduct of high technology
– the deadly pollution! They have been awfully successful, no question about
that!
China today, is practically crawling due to
the effect of heavy pollution while countries that own brands manufactured in
China are basking under smog-free atmosphere. Every day, internet news carries
warnings of the Chinese government to its citizens about the heavy pollution
and photos are those of the Chinese citizens with face or surgical mask to
lessen their inhalation of the dirty air. An enterprising European country is
reportedly exporting fresh bottled air to China.
The phenomenon in China should serve as a
warning to the third-world countries that are blinded by the prospect of living
in comfort through high technology. China has practically flooded the world
with products made in her homeland. Despite such show of opulence, she is far
from being satisfied as her expansionistic desire is slowly creeping towards
the rest of Asia and the African continent- with all their third world
countries.
The governments of these countries would
like their forests be uprooted and replaced with factories; would like their
fields planted to rice, corn and other staple foods bulldozed to give way to
resorts and first-class housing projects; would like their mountains to be
drilled for minerals; would like their citizens to be introduced into the mean
habits of squalid urban life; would like their centuries-old traditions and
faith to be polluted with the immoralities of progress.
As the exploitation lasts only for as long
as there are yet to be exploited, their “benefits” are likewise short-lived.
When the factories and mining companies stop their exhaustive operations, they
leave behind ghost towns and villages- with their rivers poisoned by chemicals
and the once-fertile land exhausted of their nutrients making them not suitable
even for the lowly grass. Their polluted culture gives rise to a new generation
of prostitutes and indolent, and worst, with a twisted view on faith.
The high-technology must be one of the
checks that God has imposed on earth to maintain the balance, aside from
natural calamities such as typhoon, earthquake, diseases, and floods, as well
as, man-made war. Without them, the world would have burst long time ago, due
to overpopulation and inadequate sustenance. But, while these are divine
penalties, caution should have been observed by man to at least delay and
minimize their occurrence. Unfortunately, man is now reaping the fruits of his
greed…at high speed!
In the Old Testament, when the God of
Israelites wanted them punished for their misdeed, He used the heathen races or
tribes to sow disaster upon them. Sometimes He used calamities such as diseases
and famine-causing pestilence. The religions of the world are based either
directly or indirectly on the Abrahamaic faith, except for some pockets of
tribes in unexplored nooks of forests and islands. In a way, most peoples of
the world are connected to the God of Israel. Are we now suffering from this
divine penalty, mentioned in the Old Testament?
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