Comments on: Korea’s New Green Deal

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:01:46 +0000

It's not cleaning up if the river banks are covered in concrete.

By: Retired GI

Retired GI — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:56:37 +0000

I still remember the (slight) scare of global cooling in the 70's.

This looks like another tool to enrich GORE's pocket.

Carbone credits was the eye opener. I'm not buying it.

By: LORDOFU2

LORDOFU2 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:33:43 +0000

Korea is pushing for enviromental summits, so you can expect anything and everything to say GREEN on it.

Also, GORE and HANLEY (yes that Hanley) are letting the world know they have 5 years until the polar ice caps melt. Yes five years.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM…

By: DunkinDokDo

DunkinDokDo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:36:08 +0000

The question is what they're going to do with the dredgings. Sometimes it's lower-impact just to leave the contaminated sediment where it's lying than to stir it up.

By: kwandongbrian

kwandongbrian — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:50:54 +0000

I admit to mixed feelings about this. I am naturally suspicious of politicians and Korea does have a high corruption index, but President Lee made one obviously correct point, one that should be interesting to ROK Drop readers. He said something like, "The rivers are already polluted. Should we do nothing and hope they magically clean themselves up?"

I figure that is interesting here because of how much time GI Korea has put into river pollution beyond the army base disposal of formaldehyde. Finally, here is someone admitting that even Koreans can pollute rivers!

Anyway, I wrote about the subject on my blog. I'm posting the link below because I wrote it at about the time I played with my RSS feed. I humbly expected one or two comments and got none – I am hoping that is because it wasn't seen rather than it was seen and dismissed.

http://gangwon.blogspot.com/2009/12/but-how-could…