Stop buying things made in China (page 3)

joelbear69

I already boycott WalMart, they are evil.

R.Crusoe

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080320/tpl-uk-china-tibet-43a8d4f.html

Not sure if anyones seen this but I can only view parts of threads for some reason - so here it is about deaths in China!

Maybe it will continue for some time and one hopes diplomacy prevails and talks between the powers help resolve long standing differences to a successful conclusion! What else can display such an pure example of humans intelligence, compassion and accomodation in a world due to become frought with even more problems if such like situations flare up?

Or are humans ensnared by our hidden will to overfill our personal chalice leading to inescapeable and inevitable confilcts?

Is the human race smart enough, collectively, to establish equal rights and peace in situations like the one in China?

WTWizard

I have an even better idea. I say we trash the careers of any politicians that make any laws that make it more difficult for upstart US companies to start creating value (that is, any products). We start favoring those that strike existing laws that were put on the books to protect the existing companies that create crap and charge too much for it.

That done, we start making premium goods right here in the USA. We pay the workers a fair wage, and realize the savings by not having to ship the goods across the Pacific Ocean. Products get produced and distributed much quicker, and since they are made to last, people are going to want to buy them. Which will torpedo any companies that continue importing from China, since their crap is built to sit for a billion years in a landfill instead of serving any useful purpose. The Chinese made products sit in warehouses in China, and their economy tanks. They will enter a Great Depression that will not end until they decide to create quality products to compete with USA-made products.

Who knows, maybe China will start importing quality Made In the USA products if that happens. But, only if our idiot lawmakers (who are bent on destroying our country) have their careers trashed for passing laws that make starting new companies so difficult.

Superfine Apostate

china would give a damn. the world is big enough, even without the usa.

btw. referring to the usa as "the worlds greatest democracy" is kinda funny. while it's called a democratic republic (NOT a democracy!), i wonder who is represented in that republic.

berylblue

Please - do NOT bother a store manager with stuff like that. We have ZERO influence on what our buyers purchase, and from where. We've got enough to deal with, smiling through every self-entitled rant our customers treat us to, without customers complaining about in which particular third world cess pool sweat shop our sh*t is made.

HOWEVER....If you really feel strongly about it, ask for or find the CORPORATE PHONE NUMBER and speak with someone a bit higher on the food chain than the lowly store manager.

PS I agree with you in principle, but I don't see how we can do much about it.

Robdar

Walmart's shelves will be bare.

So would Target's, Dillards, Kohl's Macy's, etc. It's not just Walmart.

Walmart's shelves will be bare.
So would Target's, Dillards, Kohl's Macy's, etc. It's not just Walmart.

Too true. It seems just about everything is made and imported from China- even from places like Linens-n-Things.

sammielee24

The emergence of China as a dominant economic power is an epochal event, occasioning the most massive and rapid redistribution of the earth's resources in human history. The country has also become a ravenous consumer. Its appetite for raw materials drives up international commodity prices and shipping rates while its middle class, projected to jump to 700 million by 2020, is learning the gratifications of consumerism.
The catch is that China has become not just the world's manufacturer but its despoiler, on a scale as monumental as its economic expansion. A fourth of the country is now desert. More than three-fourths of its forests have disappeared. Each year, uncontrollable underground fires, sometimes triggered by lightning or mining accidents, consume 200 million tons of coal, contributing massively to global warming. A miasma of lead, mercury, sulfur dioxide, and other elements of coal-burning and car exhaust hovers over most Chinese cities.
Meanwhile, roughly 70 percent of the world's discarded computers and electronic equipment ends up in China, where it is scavenged for usable parts and then abandoned, polluting soil and groundwater with toxic metals. If unchecked, such devastation will not just put an abrupt end to China's economic growth, but, in concert with other environmentally heedless nations (in particular, the US, India, and Brazil), will cause mortal havoc in societies and ecosystems throughout the world.
The fallout
The process is already under way. Acid rain caused by China's sulfur-dioxide emissions severely damages forests and watersheds in Korea and Japan and impairs air quality in the US. Every major river system flowing out of China is threatened with one sort of cataclysm or another. The surge in untreated waste and agricultural runoff pouring into the Yellow and China Seas has caused frequent fish die-offs, and overfishing is endangering many ocean species.
The growing Chinese taste for furs and exotic foods and pets is devastating neighboring countries' populations of everything from gazelles to wolves, and turtles to parrots, while its appetite for shark fin soup is causing drastic declines in shark populations throughout the oceans. According to a study published in Science in March 2007, the absence of the oceans' top predators is causing a resurgence of skates and rays, which are in turn destroying scallop fisheries along America's Eastern Seaboard. Enthusiasm for traditional Chinese medicine is causing huge declines in populations of hundreds of animals – including tigers, pangolins, and sea horses. Seeking oil, timber, and other natural resources, China is building massive roads, bridges, and dams throughout Africa, often disregarding international environmental and social standards.
China has also depended on imports of illegally cut wood in becoming the world's wood workshop, supplying oblivious consumers in the US and Europe with furniture, flooring, and plywood. Chinese wood manufacturers have already consumed the natural forests of Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines, and at current rates will swallow the forests of Indonesia, Burma, Papua New Guinea, and the vast Russian Far East within two decades. Most of these forests are formally protected by law or regulation, but corruption and ineffectual enforcement have fostered a flourishing illegal trade.
China has probably already overtaken the US as the world's leading emitter of CO2, and the country's ecosystems are displaying climate change's consequences: Arid northern China is drying out, the wet south is seeing more and more flooding, and, according to a June 2007 Greenpeace report, 80 percent of the Himalayan glaciers that feed Asia's mightiest rivers could disappear by 2035. Such a development would jeopardize hundreds of millions of people who depend on the rivers for their livelihood.
Nevertheless, China has maintained that the developed countries bear primary responsibility for global warming and must be the first to counter it. The argument has some merit: After all, the US alone is responsible for a quarter of the man-made greenhouse gases pumped into the earth's atmosphere over time, while China's cumulative contribution is still less than a third as much. And even today, China's per capita carbon-dioxide emissions are less than a fifth of America's. Yet China's refusal to curb emissions soon could single-handedly wipe out reductions made elsewhere, crippling the international effort.

Stop buying things made in China

joelbear69

R.Crusoe

WTWizard

Superfine Apostate

berylblue

Robdar

Exterminator

jayhawk1

misanthropic

sammielee24

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