http://honjii.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/the-olympics-to-boycott-or-not-to-boycott/ The world according to Honjii Mon, 20 May 2013 02:05:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://honjii.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/the-olympics-to-boycott-or-not-to-boycott/#comment-11706 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:41:35 +0000 http://honjii.wordpress.com/?p=241#comment-11706 You are of course right with your reasoning. A boycott will accomplish nothing. Nothing will accomplish anything on or in China as long as the world uses it as it’s cheap sweat-shop.
Tibet has unsuccessfully fought for 50 years to get the world to notice the genocide that is happening there – neither the Olympics nor a boycott of them will change that.
And the Chinese Government will probably clean up the air sufficiently before the games begin – they are cleaning up the streets successfully already with the mass killing of cats, for example.
As long as major corporations (mostly US ones but not exclusively) have a vested interest in China’s cheap labor market (and the conditions of those laborers would fill another post) nothing will change conditions in China.
The immense overpopulation is also something to look at – no species does well with extreme overpopulation – and a look at the measures the Chinese Government takes to regulate those would be worth yet another post….
Karl

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