Zitat des Tages von Ma Jun:
Apple has made this commitment that it's a green company. So how do you fulfill your commitment if you don't consider you have responsibility in your suppliers' pollution?
China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.
We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.
I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.
If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.
One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.
Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.
Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.
At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.
It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.
No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.
