Comments on: Enviro-China: The Green Guard http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/enviro-china-the-green-guard/ I'm a dad, designer, China expat and blogger Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:41:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/enviro-china-the-green-guard/#comment-383 Ryan Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:28:23 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/06/05/enviro-china-the-green-guard/#comment-383 Hey CLB! I always see your comments on TTC, nice to see you've stumbled over to mine. I agree with you in that as time goes on the gov't will definitely be looking for ways to give people a plethora of reasons not to rise up and wipe them out. I mean, as a gov't that did that itself (essentially), I'm sure it's always close to mind. Sorta like a boyfriend that cheats is likely going to worry more about a girlfriend cheating on him. But yeah, it's the local gov't that puts China to shame - not the centralized one. I mean centralized gov'ts aren't guilt free or anything (in any country), but largely the problems in China come from the municipal level. Whoever said the warloads left China? Hey CLB! I always see your comments on TTC, nice to see you’ve stumbled over to mine.

I agree with you in that as time goes on the gov’t will definitely be looking for ways to give people a plethora of reasons not to rise up and wipe them out. I mean, as a gov’t that did that itself (essentially), I’m sure it’s always close to mind. Sorta like a boyfriend that cheats is likely going to worry more about a girlfriend cheating on him.

But yeah, it’s the local gov’t that puts China to shame – not the centralized one. I mean centralized gov’ts aren’t guilt free or anything (in any country), but largely the problems in China come from the municipal level. Whoever said the warloads left China?

]]> By: China Law Blog http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/enviro-china-the-green-guard/#comment-382 China Law Blog Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:08:09 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/06/05/enviro-china-the-green-guard/#comment-382 I am of the view that Beijing does want to try to clean up the country and it wants that to mollify the people without giving them the vote. If the air and water is bad, who needs government? The problem, as you know, is that what Beijing wants it does not always get and the real quesiton is whether it will have enough juice to push all of this through to the poorer regions and the bureaucrats who can prosper by ignoring the problems caused by the factories in their ken. I am of the view that Beijing does want to try to clean up the country and it wants that to mollify the people without giving them the vote. If the air and water is bad, who needs government?

The problem, as you know, is that what Beijing wants it does not always get and the real quesiton is whether it will have enough juice to push all of this through to the poorer regions and the bureaucrats who can prosper by ignoring the problems caused by the factories in their ken.

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