# Pollution in China **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 25, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pollution-in-china/515089 "2009-10-25T20:33:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pollution-in-china/515089/21 "2009-10-28T04:08:24Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > The long term ramifications of that level of pollution will affect their country (as well as the rest of the world) for centuries. Industrial revolution or life. Doesn’t seem like much of a choice to me. Sure, and the Chinese government realizes that and so they’re trying to impose stricter pollution controls. But they also realize that large parts of their country are unindustrialized, and that to compete in the world and become a great power, they need to develop their economy. ---
**Author:** ![Animastryfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Animastryfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Animastryfe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pollution-in-china/515089/22 "2009-10-28T04:54:15Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I lived in China for two years and will agree with this entirely. I’m disappointed to see how ignorant some people can be on the Straight Dope, but I guess that is what we are fighting. 🙂 I want to make something clear about me agreeing with what **Stranger** said: I have seen comparatively little of people talking about how to solve the pollution problems beyond relatively simple ideas such as “don’t open that factory” or “the government should do something about it”. I do not hang out with the types of people who would likely protest such things, but I have also seen a distressing lack of respect from many people (at least in Beijing) for the environment in their everyday lives, such as littering and leaving the lights on all the time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pollution-in-china/515089.md?page=1)