He doesn’t worry about replacing his light bulbs. He doesn’t debate on blogs about whether or not bicycling to work would make a significant difference in carbon emissions. He can’t do either one of these things, since he is in jail.
Wu Lihong protested the degradation of his local lake, Lake Tai, for a dozen years before he was imprisoned. He’d been interrogated before for his words, so he knew the risks he was taking, and chose to take them anyway. How many of us can say the same? Not me.
This story says more than anything I could possibly write for Blog Action Day. It’s inspiring, a reminder to work for what you believe in, no matter what.
Yeah, China is particularly bad at this kind of stuff. When there’s pollutions or epidemics, a lot of times their reactions seem to be to cover it up. You will not see any news report on it. And then when it got so serious that they can’t cover it up anymore, they release a statement saying that it’s not that serious and the government has been doing stuff to keep it under control. And considering so many thing are made in China nowadays, the problem is only getting worse.