China Pollute

As the Chinese ramp up their infrastructure to get ready for the Beijing Olympics, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: China is filthy.

For the past several years, many people have predicted that China will be the future's global dominator; that we'll all speak Chinese. But consider this: China still has a population with more people living under the extreme poverty line than the United States has citizens.

Their cities are filthy with pollution and in fact, the country has begun shutting down factories just to prevent the smog from getting worse before the Olympics. It will be interesting to see how well the athletes can compete in polluted air (I predict few new world records will be set).

The country may have a giant booming economy, but that only affects a small portion of the population.

For China to pose any real threat to U.S. interests (to which the Chinese are actually bound), they will desperately need to overhaul their environment. And that says a lot, coming from me.

They will not be able to continue as the world's #1 polluter and have any shot at being the world's #1 power.