Controversial chemical plant resumes production in China
As this is my first blog post ever I’m not really sure how to go about this, however I guess I don’t have a choice but to give it my best shot. Today I was reading through some archived CNN articles and happened to stumble upon a sort of gem among the masses. When I first read it I thought to myself, “What better to talk about for a first post than the topic of ethics in one of the largest EMERGING economies of our era!” It seems to me that the word EMERGING holds the greatest weight here. China has clearly come a long way in the past decade in terms of their economy, however to me this article was very revealing in that it boldly showed the depressing side effects of such a strong emergence. Ethically the Chinese are faced by a very difficult decision, whether they relocate the plant with the risk of a huge financial backlash from the likely bankruptcy of private giant Fujia Dahua Petrochemical, or they risk the lives of their citizens by leaving the carcinogen producing plant so close to the residential areas of Dalian.
