Wheres The Outrage Over Pollution In China?
By Phil Perkins If the upcoming Olympic games in Beijing don’t expose the utter hypocrisy of the environmental extremists, then nothing else will. Get this: The International Olympic Committee has said it may postpone long-distance endurance events if air pollution is too severe. This should bring gasps of horror to the likes of Al Gore and his ilk. This should be causing the usual uproars, protests, demonstrations and threats of boycotts for which liberals are so well-known. Why isn’t it? Well, for one thing, other countries, especially non-Western ones, don’t seem to be held to any real environmental standards by the world community. Secondly, our drive-by media seems to have a see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil attitude toward other countries, especially those of a Communist persuasion. After all, this isn’t just some excessive CO2 emissions we’re talking about. This is genuine, debilitating smog, the kind that used to blanket many U.S. cities. This is the type of smog that co
