Wow, so this is how much we value the planet?

Everything comes at a price. Humans may be destructive but at the same time we have a higher order of intelligence and unlimited potential. Other creatures may live in harmony with their environment but their existence is superficial in comparision.

Also the idea that we will "destroy the planet" is absurd. We may destroy ourselves but Earth will be here long after we've left the scene.
 
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How on earth can the international community let China get away with that?

So THATS why they can produce so much cheap, utter tat. No care whatsoever about cleaning up the horrific mess, as long as some plastic toys for some western idiots Christmas crackers are knocked out in their billions.

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You're forgetting that most of the Ipods, Mobiles, Keyboards, Mice, Hard drives, Monitors, pens etc - etc - In fact nearly every gadget or Item we own in most British households is made in China in the exact same polluting factories.

It's not just the £1 cheap plastic toy cars with the fake British standard mark in the junk shop on the High street.
 
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Where did i leave my lighter??? Wait what?
 
I got back from the Philippines recently and some of the poorer areas were truly soul destroying. Some of the nicest people I've ever met living in the worst conditions I've ever seen. Even a lot of the lower-class in slightly better circumstances still earned little more than £1.50 a day. So in the poorer areas we're talking a few cents per day.

The thing that really got me though was complete lack of a middle class. People were either impoverished, or comfortably well off (many more so than me!). This was mainly apparent in Cebu city, were we stayed here (a skyscraper with a rollercoaster on the roof), but the streets below were just full of beggars, hawkers and homeless. A complete contrast from our lofty heights above.
 
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Do you mean that what they earn could be converted into £1.50 (i.e. they earn ~105 pesos) or do you mean that what they earn has the buying power that £1.50 has in the UK?
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Well, they could have been pretending to earn less then they actually do, but yes. Most people when I asked their salary, claimed to be on 100 pesos per day. (shop workers, food service etc).

Edit: And yes, I understand that the cost of living is a lot less than over here of course, but I already specified (above) the people on this wage were 'better off'.. It's still relatively nothing though.
 
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Melodramatic OP content imo. I think I could find better examples of mankinds wanton destruction and abuse of the planet than an accidental explosion causing localised damage :p
 
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