Because we keep buying the products made by these greedy corporate pig-fuckers! It's our responsibility though. What we eat, where we work, what we buy ... if you want cheap products made in China understand that the side effects are many!
Pollution is just one you mentioned but the regular Chinese worker has no rights. If they die at the work-place they just get mopped-up quickly and another worker takes the latter's place. If you're buying products out of Cambodia for example or many other South-east Asian countries, you could very well be supporting child labor!
Consumers have to understand this: if the product you buy is nice and cheap, there are reasons for that. We, the people living in the first world, western-world are the ones enforcing the poverty on the rest of the world. We do very little to actually help countries develop and create infrastructure.
A great example would be Nigeria. Shell has been sucking the land dry of oil for a long time there yet, most people live in slums in incredibly unhealthy conditions. And who owns Shell?
Us, those of us who own stock ... not that it makes a difference but I avoid Shell gas-stations more than I would avoid the devil; just out of principle.
I hate to tell you this but pretty much every country pollutes. Some less then others but per capita, china is no where near many other countries when it comes to using fossil fuels and other forms of gas. The u.s.Is the worst polluter in the world by a long shot with fuels but that is also part of what drives their economy and to stop polluting would be an economical disaster for them.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.