World's Worst Toxic Dump

In China, pollution is everywhere. After a chemical factory exploded and polluted the Songhua River.
The citizens of Harbin waited for tanker trucks to deliver water to them as about 100 tons of toxic chemicals have been floating down the Songhua River ever since an explosion in Jilin which released highly toxic compounds which would kill more than 10 million people downstream in Russia. The communist party responds using the same old Stalinist approach. In Harbin, as with the SARS crisis two years ago, authorities initially tried to downplay the true scope of the disaster.

Other rivers in China are turning into sewers, toxic soup splashes through the country's waterways, while people living along the banks die from cancer at above-average rates. This is a result of industrialization. According to official statistics, 350 Chinese die each day in industrial accidents, but the unofficial figure is likely to be much higher. This shows another problem as people are making use of the revenue for their own usage like cars and villas and not on workers safety. China would soon surpass the United States as the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases as about 400,000 people die prematurely each year because of the polluted air they breathe.

After reading this article, i felt that China is really having a serious problems with the environment." Polluted" is the only word to describe their water sources and air. I also remembered reading the article on the Chinese government asking workers to spray the grass green just to beautify the country as pollution has caused the plants to wither. The Chinese government should really start reflecting on how to deal with pollution correctly and stop fooling both the citizens and the world. Take for example the chemical factory explosion. I am glad that the Chinese government did actually do something about it and helped the citizens. Instead of really thinking of ways to stop future explosions and telling citizens the ways, they actually made use of this opportunity to actually garner the support citizens by giving water. To further trick the world and their citizens that the country is great, they actually downplayed the true scope of the disaster.

 I feel that the government should actually also educate the people as some of them are corrupted. Like what the article had  stated; some of the people actually used the companies revenue for their own "wants" and "needs" . China is reach in tradition and they believe in Confucianism; and yet they do not even practice what Confucius had said. All in all, i just think that China's government should think of ways to reduce the pollution and stop in a sense " corruption" within companies.

China officials caught spray-painting grass green in Chengdu

In Chengdu, China, officials hit upon an easy solution to cheer up their city's appearance: specifically, a chemical solution called Top Green Turf Greening Agent. Chinese reporters filmed workers from Chengdu's municipal landscaping department dying the grass green with green spray. A salesman from the company told  the China Daily newspaper that it is not toxic. A number of people are unhappy and wished that the government would use the money to build schools and make "The skies blue", making china free from pollution.

After reading this article, i was shocked that the department of landscaping in china actually made use of this method just to beautify the city; and at the same time not amazed by what they had done. We all know that China is heavily polluted as industries are booming in it. It is because of the pollution that vegetation there are literally dying. Instead of having campaigns or finding ways to decrease such heavy pollution, they actually sprayed the dying plants green instead to make citizens feel as though the land IS green and the plants are healthy. The pollution might therefore worsen as people who does not know about the spraying of the grass would feel that the pollution is not harming the environment as the plants are still healthy, hence continue to pollute the air. Spraying the grass may make the country appear "cleaner" and green, but it is not solving or improving the air pollution in China. I hope that the chinese government would look into ways of improving the air quality and not just thinking of development and beautifying the country. Affecting the lives of plants is indirectly affecting the lives of people. Plants are the giver of oxygen.