China has removed cars from Beijing streets in anticipation of the Olympics in order to reduce pollution.
This is yet more proof that the rampant economic development, without a care for the environment, risks choking the very economies that created the issue. Comes back to balance doesn’t it? Anything out of balance doesn’t last and the double digit growth rates in China had to come back to bite it given that not a care has been given to environmental concerns during this phase.
Now athletes are pondering whether or to cancel appearances because of their concerns over their performance levels. Its amazing that so little has been done so late and that the organizing committee took
for granted that China would make good on its word to have the air ready.
The night is darkest before the dawn I heard in the Batman Movie, and so it is true for the summer olympic games. I am sure they will do as good a job as last minute attempts will permit and by the skin of their teeth
get away with it. Yet this darkness for the games means that future ones will be more vigilent in verification
of environmental status prior to committing games to an area where athletes chances of breaking world records will be reduced, not because they can’t, yet because they won’t be given a fair chance.
Sass