This week in the smog-regulation-free factory city of Harbin in northeastern China, schools were closed and people had to wear Michael Jackson masks while walking through a thick, chemical fog. Not a lot of pollution control over there, you see.
The anti-government GOP hates the Environmental Protection Agency and its evil, tree-hugging rules. Maybe that’s why the Koch brothers and billionaire mustache-twirlers like them are so in love with the Chinese market these days.
Remember when Captain One-Percenter himself, Mitt Romney said, “the head of Coca-Cola said the business environment is friendlier in China than in America. And that’s because of the regulators. That’s because of government.”
We need the EPA. We need very strict oversight of any corporation that negatively effects the environment. You can’t trust these guys to do what is best for the future of the planet when all they care about is amassing more billions.