How Much Is U.S. to Blame for “Made-in-China” Pollution?

China produce too many goods for the world, things we use every day like our cellphones and this productions causes high levels of air pollution over their territory. Those pollutants can reach U.S west coast due to airstreams which travel through the Pacific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science -PNAS- researchers said that more or less a 60% of pollutant emissions in China come from goods to export and like 20% of those goods goes to U.S.

China is the bigger producer of air pollutants in world nowadays. The effects on weather and people are increasing in China right now, filling the cities with haze and a strong change in people health. These studies proposed evaluate who is responsible of pollution emissions, consumers or producers? And look for solutions. In comparison with other countries, U.S consumes a biggest part of goods made in China, some aspects should be analyzed to know, producers or consumers have more responsibility in the increase of air pollution levels.

Opinion

This is a good point of view. The researchers talks about how manufacturing industries affects the environment and weather making a comparison between China and U.S. I think that both China and the other countries which demands made in China goods are responsible in a 50/50 of the emissions of air pollution in world. Those studies prove that world is under a serious health threat and we have to do something right now.

The other part of study which will evaluate the percentage of demand and supply between China and countries like U.S will determine the next step to heal the planet and decrease the air pollutions levels around the world.

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Than, Ker. January 22 2014. How Much Is U.S. to Blame for “Made-in-China” Pollution?. NatGeo News. Taken from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/01/140122-made-in-china-pollution-from-exports/?source=pollution