tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7403414115550732353..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: What? We're Selling Canadian Air to China?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-4111910222335681182015-12-18T10:54:15.087-08:002015-12-18T10:54:15.087-08:00All a person can do, is laugh, laugh and laugh mor...All a person can do, is laugh, laugh and laugh more or else end up crying, crying and more crying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-11086604973643095622015-12-16T21:27:18.568-08:002015-12-16T21:27:18.568-08:00In the sixties, an entrepreneur printed a pretty p...In the sixties, an entrepreneur printed a pretty picture of Vancouver, captured on a clear sunny day, on labels for standard 15 oz. tin cans. The labels identified contents of the sealed but empty cans as pure Pacific air, or something similar.<br /><br />I understand the cans sold quite well for a while, particularly at tourist spots. I always thought the idea would be revived. Now, I'm waiting for a new supply of pet rocks.Norm Farrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06762889793990336381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-26650549613121750842015-12-16T18:07:28.972-08:002015-12-16T18:07:28.972-08:00@ John's aghast - Both India and China are in ...@ John's aghast - Both India and China are in the grip of a powerful form of cognitive dissonance. Analyses of the public health crisis that's looming in their cities suggests it could severely destabilize their government and their economies. I was accustomed to the particulate numbers in Beijing, Shanghai and other Chinese cities but I was floored when I saw the Indian urban numbers.<br /><br />This public health crisis is just another layer, one factor compounding so many other seemingly unresolvable and potentially explosive threats. The Chinese have a major problem with arsenic and heavy metals contamination of their farmland - airborne industrial waste - that renders it incapable of producing food fit for human consumption. Both countries have a desertification problem. Dust clouds rise over China cross the Pacific and descend in western North America. When I dust my furniture apparently 15% of it has just arrived from China. And both have a major freshwater problem - groundwater and surface water compounded by the retreat of the Himalayan glaciers. That part of the planet is one enormous mess.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-10625875168248520692015-12-16T17:55:33.236-08:002015-12-16T17:55:33.236-08:00The good thing, A..non, is that the stuff is going...The good thing, A..non, is that the stuff is going to China where they know better than to send aluminium to the garbage dump. I'm sure it'll find its way home soon enough on some Wal-Mart shelf in the toaster section.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-35917065096915607482015-12-16T17:51:31.544-08:002015-12-16T17:51:31.544-08:00If India can't or won't clean up it's ...If India can't or won't clean up it's act maybe they'll contribute to the overpopulation problem.John's aghasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17373273843457791978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-70441308065014172132015-12-16T17:22:41.359-08:002015-12-16T17:22:41.359-08:00Paquette should rot in hell for peddling useless p...Paquette should rot in hell for peddling useless product (those canisters are non refillable, likely difficult to recycle) which can only hold ~5-10 bars, good for a couple of breaths...<br />A..nonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-83688298985998722062015-12-16T13:19:52.401-08:002015-12-16T13:19:52.401-08:00Wow! Space Balls comes true!Wow! Space Balls comes true!UU4077https://www.blogger.com/profile/10350775839411436865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-12838068275937551832015-12-16T12:36:41.903-08:002015-12-16T12:36:41.903-08:00Well, LD, given that just two days ago an Indian o...Well, LD, given that just two days ago an Indian official announced that country would double its coal consumption by 2020 - DOUBLE in just the next five years - it seems that India is prepared to lay waste to a lot of its people.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-56862020423768236252015-12-16T11:52:55.270-08:002015-12-16T11:52:55.270-08:00Mound, I have learned a lot from your posts. This ...Mound, I have learned a lot from your posts. This particular one scares me. Are we becoming new dinosaurs near extinction? At least dinosaurs were not responsible for their own extinctionn.LeDarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12526776746689708239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-2407693109181524412015-12-16T11:28:18.378-08:002015-12-16T11:28:18.378-08:00Bad as the air is in Beijing, LD, recent reports s...Bad as the air is in Beijing, LD, recent reports show small particulate levels (the really dangerous stuff) three times worse in India's major cities.<br /><br />It's estimated that half of Beijing kids under 14 already have permanent lung damage. One can only wonder what sort of public health disaster waits in store for India.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-37328428756020828472015-12-16T10:49:34.667-08:002015-12-16T10:49:34.667-08:00Mound, I find it incredible. If current rate of po...Mound, I find it incredible. If current rate of pollution continues many other countries may need bottled air. LeDarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12526776746689708239noreply@blogger.com