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Environmental movements only seem to come along when we are at the brink. It wasn’t until the events at Love Canal did we really awaken an environmental consciousness in America. So to is it true in China, where only the most serious of environmental concerns are beginning to awaken their national consciousness. This environmental brinkmanship is a sad but true fact of life. It remains however proof positive that our cheap goods are not really so cheap, they come embedded with an environmental cost that can cross oceans. It is a product of economic development, climbing the ladder so to speak. Soon polluting, low tech industries in China will face high costs and regulations as the social costs of no regulation add up. It is part of the reason why China is so embarrassed at being a manufacturing country and not an innovation country in relative terms. However the Chinese are a proud and ingenious people, one might predict an explosion in green tech in China because they need it the most.