Atheism and the environment
Atheism has a poor record when it comes to the application of environmental science.
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Atheist controlled communist China and the environment
See also: China and atheism and Atheism and communism
China has the world's largest atheist population (see: China and atheism). China has state atheism. Most atheists are East Asian (see: Asian atheism).
Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia founded be an atheist and agnostic, declares in its article Environmental issues in China:
| “ | Environmental issues in China are plentiful, severely affecting the country's biophysical environment and human health. Rapid industrialisation, as well as lax environmental oversight, are main contributors to these problems.
The Chinese government has acknowledged the problems and made various responses, resulting in some improvements, but the responses have been criticized as inadequate. In recent years, there has been increased citizens' activism against government decisions that are perceived as environmentally damaging, and a retired official from the Communist Party of China has reported that the year of 2012 saw over 50,000 environmental protests in China.[1] |
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China, the environment and cancer
See also: Atheism and cancer
As a result of its poor envirnomental record, China has a significant problem with cancer.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation declared in 2015:
| “ | In China, cancer rates are exploding and for the first time the extent has been revealed.
Last year, more than four million people were diagnosed with the disease and nearly three million died from it, research from the American Cancer Journal of Clinicians showed. In some of the industrial provinces, lung cancer rates have increased a staggering four-fold, but authorities seem reluctant to acknowledge — let alone deal with — the epidemic. The Cancer Institute and Hospital in central Beijing is struggling to cope with ever-increasing caseloads. Every day, hundreds pour in from all over China. People can wait months for a doctor's appointment, but often it is too late for treatment and the cancer is too advanced.[3] |
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Science Daily reported in article entitled Nearly half of China cancer deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors:
| “ | A new report finds more than half of all cancer deaths in men in 2013 in China and more than a third of those in women were attributable to a group of potentially modifiable risk factors: smoking, alcohol, nutrition, weight, physical activity, and infections.[4] | ” |
Cancer epidemic in China
- Finally, China Comes to Grips with Its Cancer Epidemic, Council on Foreign Relations
- Tobacco and the lung cancer epidemic in China, Translational Lung Cancer Research
Atheistic Soviet Union and environmental science
According to the University of Cambridge, historically, the "most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power."[5]
The former Soviet Union had state atheism.
The environmental legacy of the former Soviet Union was a severely degraded environment.[6]
Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident in the former Soviet Union
- Health effects of the Chernobyl accident: an overview - World Health Organization
References
- ↑ Environmental issues in China
- ↑ China's cancer rates exploding, more than 4 million people diagnosed in 2015, study says, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- ↑ China's cancer rates exploding, more than 4 million people diagnosed in 2015, study says, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- ↑ Nearly half of China cancer deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors, Science Daily, 2017
- ↑ Investigating atheism: Marxism. University of Cambridge (2008). Retrieved on July 17, 2014. “The most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power. For the first time in history, atheism thus became the official ideology of a state.”
- ↑ The Environmental Record of the Soviet Union by Arran Gare
