2012 Predictions: The Great Chinese Pollution Riots of 2012
January 15th 2012 21:02
In China, a series of deadly and economically crippling pollution events will kill thousands and spark anti-government pollution riots. The government will call on the world’s top environmentalists for a conference. Since the top environmentalists will all be from the West, they will be offered double their western salaries to go forth and work as green proselytizers all over China.
At it will appear that the Green infusion is working. The pollution alerts in China’s major industrial cities will abate and the air and water in many places will begin to become cleaner.
But in hidden corners of industrial China, in harsh outlying district, there are places where no bureaucrat from the Chinese central government ever ventures, because he knows he will be both uncomfortable and unwelcome in such a sparse setting. It is easy then for local officials and factory managers to convince the centralized bureaucrats who would otherwise nose around, to report the industrial output as one quarter of its real value so that everyone involved can pocket the difference.
In such out of the way places, governors and even mayors and factory managers with private armies act as virtual warlords and force triple or even ten times the pollution amounts than that mandated by the Chinese government on the local populace. In such places, to keep the populace under control, the warlords start rumors that the west is deliberately keeping anti-pollution technology from China. A series of huge, chain reaction explosions inevitably claim thousands of lives in these industrial backwaters. The air and water burst into flame incinerating factories and families. The whispering campaign of corrupt energy warlords has prepared rural China to blame the west. Riots ensue and every western symbol is burned. The Chinese government hastens to evacuate western environmentalists. Western journalists and western sympathizers who fail to leave are dragged out into the street and killed.
The Chinese government has no choice but to blame the west publicly but a background investigation reveals the lazy and corrupt bureaucrats who failed to check whether inhospitable industrial areas where keeping up with pollution standards. The warlord governors and mayors and factory managers are caught trying to take large sums of cash out of China. Although the Chinese government eventually leads the public to blame these perpetrators for the pollution crimes, they still have to make the charge that the criminals collaborated with the West to keep China down.
Rural Chinese people refuse to buy the notion that “real Chinese” would betray their country and kill thousands of people just for money. No matter what the central government says, rural China “knows” that it was evil Western influences that must have bribed Chinese officials and businessmen and forced them to do evil. It does not help that the creeping of corruption of western decadence and moral decay is making the younger generation of Chinese strangers to their own parents and grandparents.
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