Growing Public Unrest Leads China To Admit To 'Cancer Villages'

Then again, other than freaks like Thoreau, most Americans weren't out hugging trees at the beginning of our Industrial Revolution either.

Bingo. This idea that "asian culture" is so different from "western culture" is just intellectually lazy. Sure there are differences, but fundamentally people are people, they all want the same stuff - food, air, water, sex, sleep, security, health, family, respect, creativity, etc.

The sort of reforms we saw that came in on the western industrial revolution aren't culturally specific, they are human-specific. The implementations will surely vary along with the timelines, but the end result will be the same because if it does not get to a similar point of satisifying universal human needs, it will collapse because the humans won't tolerate it indefinitely.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/MGGJ7-8JLsA/story01.htm

conversion disorder the chronicle spinal stenosis the forgotten man mike jones just friends chronicle