Comments by "Canice Tang" (@canicetang8837) on "Young Turks Viewer Voting for Trump, Loves His Every Move" video.

  1. I was born and raised in Hong Kong back in the 1970s. The gap between the rich and the poor is even worse today compared with the US. I would like him to live in a shit hole of less than 80 square feet and paying more than $1,500 USD per month. They just passed the minimum wage to $4.60 USD per hour. Living costs went up 250% since the 2000 with median wages unchanged in 16 years. The Maoist Beijing degenerates made Hong Kong far worse than ever in all facets of society. Yet, this was the response he came up for the interviewer? Even though he might sounded a bit smarter than the dumb morons who support Trump. But please, do some research.
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  2. ***** Air quality has been bad for a long time. But environmental pollution are even worse ever since the Takeover back in 1997. As to other type of pollution as the economic and political from the Mainland. It is getting atrocious. Unless you are sided with the close associates of the "Party", they are squeezing out people and it is very noticeable to a lot of ex-pats working and living there.
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  3. I Pleedafif It is difficult to say but the pollution levels in a lot of countries, regardless to the urban or rural locales had greatly influenced in the global warming problem. For myself, I have lived both in Hong Kong and Singapore. And the comparison is day and night. For me, you wouldn't want to swim in Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong as you will in the Hudson River in New York, or the waters around Rio. Yes, it was that bad. For the majority of the year, you could see heavy levels of smog over the clouds in Hong Kong. It is often difficult to see a clear view across the Harbour in Hong Kong standing from either side of Kowloon or Hong Kong Island. The air and water pollution often get worse with major constructions such as landfills or blasting islands to create extra space for apartment buildings, and also digging up contaminated ocean soils for major infrastructure projects. As a result, lots of endangered species are further affected. Such as the plight of the "pink dolphins" which are only local to that area. Often protections of the environment are being passed over to generating wealth. That's why more and more people are getting sick. They often wear masks in particular during and after the SARS crisis in 2003. Unfortunately, we are just barely scratching the surface of the environmental problems. Unless we are actively doing something about this, things will get worse and probably tipping to the point of no return, for our humanity. Then, no amounts of wealth could buy back the planet we savagely destroyed.
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  4. ***** The smog level in Hong Kong is nowhere as bad as in Beijing considering that up there they have also deal with severe dust storms. However, various environmental studies have shown that air pollution levels in Hong Kong are very poor at the urban areas, where the slightly rural areas and the country parks fared much better. In addition, the light pollution from the big advertising boards during the evening are often unbearable to the working poor as well.
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