Dodson Chapter 4 Response

The stories of pollution issues in China really shook me to the core when reading Dodson’s Chapter 4. I was totally unaware of the situations occurring. There was one story specifically that he told that really affected me. In 2005 in the Guangdong Providence of China, the government was forced to cut the tap-water supply to tens of thousands of people for more than a week after a state-owned smelter discharged tons of the industrial chemical cadium into the Beijiang River. I think it is egregious that a company would think it is okay to damage the Earth this way. Also, I cannot imagine what it would be like to have no running water for over a week! That would be so miserable, I don’t know how I could handle that. Especially because it was done due to an ignorant companies decision to harm our natural resources and lack of care for the population of China. Imagine not having water for just one day. We couldn’t cook, grab a glass of water to drink, shower, or anything! That would be so miserable! And the Chinese people were forced to do it for over a week! This information for me was the most prominent thing I took away from Chapter 4 because I really put myself in the situation, and I can’t imagine what that would be like because of pollution.