2010年7月31日星期六
云南省委副书记李纪恒：尽快制定《政法机关内犯罪嫌疑人意外死亡处理办法》，在意外死亡发生后尽快将其亲属送入精神病院是避免群体事件发生的最好的解决办法，能够更好地维护社会的和谐和稳定。
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云南省委副书记李纪恒：尽快制定《政法机关内犯罪嫌疑人意外死亡处理办法》，在意外死亡发生后尽快将其亲属送入精神病院是避免群体事件发生的最好的解决办法，能够更好地维护社会的和谐和稳定。
作者：风林火山 提交日期：2010-03-31 15:11:08
近年来，由于互联网触角的无孔不入，不少犯罪嫌疑人在纪委、公安局、派出所和拘留所等政法机关意外死亡的事件屡次被网络疯狂炒作，如“躲猫猫”、“喝开水”、“做噩梦”和“纸币开锁”等等，这些事件的网络热炒给政法机关带来了不小的压力，也使得党和政府的形象严重受损。如何正确处理这些意外死亡事件，从根本上避免这些网络恶搞是当今全国政法机关面临的严峻课题之一。在当前召开的十一届全国人大三次会议上，全国人大代表、省委副书记李纪恒的一个提案就很有新意地提出了一个堪称完美的解决方案。
李纪恒代表在接受记者采访时说，云南是一个地处边缘的多民族特殊省份，有着与内地省市完全不同的传统和习俗，但省里的个别主要领导同志来自北方，对云南省内的文化传统和民俗习惯不甚了解，处理突发事件时缺乏经验，当个别犯罪嫌疑人在纪委、公安局、派出所和拘留所等政法机关意外死亡时，该领导处理方式过于简单，被一些海外敌对势力利用，经过个别政治觉悟不高的记者报道，被一些不明真相的网友在网上恶搞，严重影响了云南省的形象，给政法机关的工作造成了巨大的负面影响。
李代表指出，其实要解决这些意外死亡问题并不难，关键要从根子上解决网络炒作的问题。网络为什么会炒作，原因就是死者家属会不分场合地到处喊冤，最后惊动了一些觉悟不高的记者和别有用心的网民才使之成为网络热点的。山东省临沂市的相关做法就非常值得我们借鉴学习。去年临沂市新建的市委市府办公大楼被个别网民炒作成“八星级办公大楼”，而在警方处理这个发帖人的时候，发帖人意外身死。这个事情要是放在云南，肯定又是一个网络热点，但临沂市的政法机关此时果断地将死者的家属送入精神病院，这样就无人喊冤，从而避免了一场严重的网络事件。
李代表总结说：“我的这个提案就是吸取了临沂的成功经验和我们云南失败的深刻教训，提议全国人大尽快制定《政法机关内犯罪嫌疑人意外死亡处理办法》，办法可以规定在嫌疑人死亡后的两个小时内应该将其直系亲属送入当地的精神病院，避免因家属到处喊冤形成网络群体事件，造成政法机关工作的被动。其它一些可能造成群体事件的死亡案件，如贵州的两农民抢夺警察枪支被击毙的事件也可以照此办理。同时建议该《政法机关内犯罪嫌疑人意外死亡处理办法》还应严禁记者媒体和网络对意外死亡事件进行任何形式的报导和炒作。
据记者了解，李代表的这一提案受到很多政法系统代表的一致支持，大家都认为全国人大应该重视这一提案，尽快制定《政法机关内犯罪嫌疑人意外死亡处理办法》，在意外死亡发生后尽快将其亲属送入精神病院是避免群体事件发生的最好的解决办法，能够更好地维护社会的和谐和稳定。
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2010年7月19日星期一
Sinica: China's Environmental Collapse
After the collapse of international climate change talks in Copenhagen in 2009, Mark Lynas' devastating article as published in the Guardian laid the blame squarely at China's feet, accusing the Chinese government of deliberately scuttling American-led efforts to secure an international agreement on climate change. This begs the question: is China really to blame for the collapse at Copenhagen, and what plans if any does the country have for curtailing its own cascading environmental problems?
Joining hosts Kaiser Kuo and Will Moss this week are Jonathan Watts, Guardian correspondent and author of the new book When A Billion Chinese Jump, and Adam Wang, senior attorney and director of the China Environmental Law Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council in Beijing. Both experts in Chinese environmental policy, Jon and Adam join us for an in-depth discussion of Jonathan's new book on China's growing environmental crisis and the various efforts underway to solve it.
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When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind - Or Destroy It / by Jonathan Watts
Jonathan Mirsky
MANY POISONED RIVERS
When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind - Or Destroy It
By Jonathan Watts (Faber & Faber 483pp £14.99)
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Only last year, Thomas Friedman, three-times Pulitzer Prize winner and a regular columnist in the New York Times, wrote: 'One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages ... It is not an accident that China is committed to overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power.' A year earlier, Friedman wished that 'we could be like China for a day' so that the US could really get things done on saving the environment. Friedman could not have read The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage by Alexandra Harney (2008), an exposé of the hell-hole which is Chinese manufacturing for the cheap Western market. Nor could he have read Mark Elvin's The Retreat of the Elephants (2004), or Elizabeth Economy's The River Runs Black (also 2004; both books were reviewed here), which deal with China's historic and current ravaging of its environment. Now comes Jonathan Watts's meticulously documented, wide-ranging account of this destruction - from the near extermination of the Tibetan chiru, an antelope whose coat is used to make the fashionable shahtoosh shawl, to China's role as the greatest polluter of the Pacific through its overuse of chemicals, in fertilisers and factories, that flow down the country's many poisoned rivers to the sea.
Watts's brilliant title comes from a warning he learned as a child: 'If everyone in China jumps at exactly the same time, it will shake the earth off its axis and kill us all.' He remembered this during his time in Beijing as Asia environment correspondent for The Guardian and it spurred him to make an arduous trip through much of China, from the satanic mills of Guangdong to the new railway that is hastening the cultural ruin of Tibet. Soon after he moved to China in 2003, Watts suspected that 'the decisions taken in Beijing, more than anywhere else, would determine whether humanity thrived or perished ... No other country was in such a mess.'
At first you might imagine that Watts is peddling the latest version of the Yellow Peril. After you've read about fifty pages you will find his occasional attempts at fairness bizarre, as in his clichéd conclusion that, faced with two 'extremes', 'the truth was probably somewhere in between'. But there is no 'in between'. China is destroying itself and threatening the rest of us. And, like useful idiots, we are helping the Chinese do it.
It is hard to single out the most repulsive examples of self-destruction. Millions of tons of sewage down the Yellow River; the North China water table now sucked so dry that it has become nearly impossible to plumb; the squillions of acres of denuded grasslands and felled forests. The mind denies and goes numb. But some horrors can be comprehended because they are small. Chinese authorities, ever on the qui vive to lure tourists, have been identifying famed beauty spots as Shangri-la - 'a remarkable act of chutzpah', Watts writes, 'for a government that was, in theory, at least, communist, atheist, and scientifically orientated'. One such designated treasure was Lake Bigu in Yunnan province. Once a place of great beauty, it has since been 'violated'. In 2001, one of China's most respected filmmakers, Chen Kaige, came to the lake to make The Promise. Encouraged by the local authority - typically keen to make a fast yuan - Chen drove 100 pilings into the lake for a bridge and built a five-storey house for the love scenes. After he finished shooting he left, but the house and the rotting bridge across the lake remain, and sheep choke to death on discarded rubbish.
Here's where Westerners come in. We love ourselves for recycling, but where do you suppose all those obsolete computers and plastic bottles go? Why, to China, at so much per ton. In one town, Watts saw small recycling shops 'breaking down the world's discarded plastic bags, bottles and wrappers': 'bales of Dutch Kinder Eggs, Italian nappies, French-packaged Lego ... Tesco milk cartons, Marks and Spencer's cranberry juice, Kellogg's cornflakes boxes, Walkers crisp packets, Snickers wrappers and Persil powder containers'. These were turned into hundreds of thousands of plastic pellets sorted by colour, and made into low grade sheeting for holdalls and wrapping. 'The cost was ditches full of garbage and a population plagued by health concerns.' In another town, where 'hundreds of millions of computers, mobile phones and other devices [had been] discarded', he saw women and children stripping circuit boards and exposing themselves to a 'toxic cocktail' of chemicals. Children in that town had 50 per cent more lead in their blood than the limit set in the US; it can result in mental retardation. According to Watts, 'American companies ... claim to be recycling domestically while actually shipping e-waste to China and elsewhere using shell companies in Hong Kong and Singapore.'
Species are dying in China (the chapter on the Yangtze River dolphin is especially grim, although Watts has missed the best book on the subject, Witness to Extinction, by Samuel Turvey, reviewed here in December 2008), fish stocks are depleting, water grows ever scarcer, climate change is ignored, and climate itself becomes an adversary. Local governments encourage 'growth', the new middle class buys like billy-o, and China's national leaders accuse the West of being unfair about China not being green enough, since - true enough - we did our despoiling during the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution.
During years travelling around China, I saw the beginnings of what Watts describes. What staggered me in his book was this: in the West we are suffering fear and loathing of the Chinese Century and China's impressive 10 per cent national growth, compared with our paltry advances. But I didn't know that the World Bank, as Watts shows, has calculated the annual bill for Chinese pollution - health costs, premature deaths, damaged infrastructure and crops - at 5.8 per cent of GDP. That lowers the Chinese miracle to our level. And if you add in erosion, desertification and environmental degradation, the World Bank calculates there is an 8 to 12 per cent bite into China's GDP, stopping the miracle in its eroded tracks. Watts suggests that if we factor in climate change and the gobbling up of non-renewable resources around the planet, 'it becomes conceivable that China's environmental crunch contributed to the global financial crash of 2008'.
This is a revealing and depressing book. There is no 'middle truth' in it. During his painstaking investigative journeys, which called on all his powers as a top-class reporter, Jonathan Watts concluded that 'China has felt at times like the end of the world.'
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the planet has not warmed-up 1/2 degree in the last 6 yrs , the oceans level have not increased either and we have had the coldest winters the past 3yrs . where/what is this global warming? climate change at different cycles have always existed in my life time. i'm too old to worry or care about this but i sure would like to be enlighted for my grand-children sake. even if it's man-made carbon dioxide isn't it necessary for plant life in china. the planet will live and china needs problably to concentrate more on quality water. AlGore didn't invent the internet but he sure invented global warming (climate change / environmental crisis whatever it's called now)
most environmentalists are the problem.
in my opinion this will be proven to be the biggest scam (money grabbing) the planet has known.
With all the pessimism, and what James Fallows puts as "all out fatalism" regarding the environment in China, there are rays of hope, and people doing hard work individually and with NGO's. I'm happy to see you guys end the podcast on a positive note.
I think Canadians tend to be less skeptical than Americans on climate change in part because there is less political polarization in Canada, and in part because the effects of climate change are more visible and exaggerated up north than closer to the equator. The empirical evidence is also generally available and the balance of evidence seems to be that we have already seen several fractions of a degree in warming. Even skeptics I read online seem now to have dropped claims that global warming is not happening in favor of arguing that it is not anthropogenic in origin and/or we don't need to worry about it.
That said, I'm skeptical of mainstream proposals for carbon trading as a solution and much more pessimistic than paglino9 on society being able to do anything about global warming before market forces end our oil dependence for other reasons. So I thought ending the podcast on "a positive note" was a case of indulging in false optimism. One recent counterexample that springs to my mind involves the case of a non-Chinese energy company which is having to make payoffs to local officials simply to build green technology plants in China. When even low-level Chinese officials are systematically encouraged to put personal self-enrichment above the environmental health of the country by bleeding clean energy companies, I can't see how either private or public sector initiatives in China are going to accomplish much of anything. Public sector research will not be results-oriented while private sector initiatives will be hamstrung by rent-seeking policy-makers.
These are my instinctive biases at least, although I'm aware they may be uninformed. That said, I would enjoy a future podcast where Jonathan and others have the opportunity to talk substantively about specific projects which are actually making a difference. I would find it interesting to hear where the funding is coming from in these cases, and what percent of Chinese initiatives are home-grown and sustainable.
thanks for the 2 links. i've done a lot of reading. obviously all one sided. would you know a few links debating the other side point of view.
my concern is not whether canadian or chinese government are ignoring or doing anything about "global warming" but whether it exist at all.
can common sense come out on both side of this debate?
which is "kouyu" these days qihoubianhua or shijiebiannuan
although interesting i don't think Sinica podcasts are useful part of beginner/elementary learning lessons. case in point i was diverted from my basic conversation mandarin learning.
Everyone I hear refers to it as 气候变暖 these days, but I don't know if that's representative of greater China or just Beijing. And just on a quick non-climate related note. If you'd like to keep Sinica lessons (or any other series) from showing up on your front page, the easiest way to do this is to visit the lessons archive page:
http://popupchinese.com/archives
The column on the right-hand side with checkboxes will let you customize what *new* shows will appear automatically on your front page and in your RSS feed. You can add other older lessons either by bookmarking them individually, or adding them through our lesson calendar.
Best,
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"If you'd like to keep Sinica lessons (or any other series) from showing up on your front page" I know, but i just don't want to miss out on anything even though some are above my comprehension.
"meiyou zuihao zhiyou geng hao" so is PopupC
user18 , tofu.stinky,
thanks for the reading suggestions