China’s Cancerous Development and Destructive Demise By reason of its explosive economic growth and global expansion, China is quickly becoming a world power with extraordinary influence. Yet China’s growth and expansion is disrupting the environment, polluting rivers, causing widespread illness, and killing its own people. Given China’s earth altering “grow first and clean up later” approach to development, what is the best way for China’s people (and the people of nations bordering China and drinking from the same rivers) to safeguard their water, influence governmental law and policy, reform industry, educate society, and continue to monitor future development to ensure rivers vital to the health of their communities are not contaminated or kept from them by damming and diversion projects? China’s scientists, engineers, medical doctors, and environmental activists have documented dangerous industrial water pollution, corporate environmental disregard, and hazards of poorly planned dam and diversion projects. Chinese citizens themselves have begun to actively protest and blog online to make known their dissatisfaction with unclean water, poor sanitation, corporate neglect, and environmental abuses by farmers and industrial manufacturers resulting in widespread cancer and premature deaths across the country. There are 459 cancer villages across 29 of China’s provincial units. Water contamination from industrial pollution is believed to be the main cause of cancer villages, and there is a close relationship between China’s major rivers and the location of cancer counties. Cancer villages tend to cluster along the major rivers and their branches. …Iron and copper sulfide strip mining since 1970 has resulted in serious soil erosion and landslides that have dumped cancer-causing cadmium, lead, and other heavy metals into the water system and soil down the mountain. For China to be a benign hegemony in Asia as it claims to be, it must start at home by upholding its own principles of peaceful coexistence beginning in how it relates to its own environment, people, and neighboring states drinking from the same rivers. Paul F. Davis is a Worldwide Motivational Speaker, Wellness Trainer and Health Coach who has touched 76 nations serving the U.S. Military, Companies, Cruise Lines, Churches, and Universities across the globe. Paul provided rescue relief with the Salvation Army the first week of September 11th, 2001 at “ground zero” in New York City following the bombing of the World Trade Center. Paul traveled to Pakistan twice after 9/11, the nation where Paul believed Osama Bin Laden was hiding; prior to Presidents Bush and Obama pursuing and killing him therein. Paul was raised by his grandfather, a U.S. Army retired Lt. Colonel. Paul’s cousin is a retired U.S. Army Ranger and Paul’s uncle served in the U.S. Navy. Paul has spoken on sexual assault & harassment prevention and suicide prevention for both the U.S. Army and Air Force. Paul served as an intern for the U.S. Embassy in Timor Leste when Hillary Clinton was the former Secretary of State. Paul is the Author of more than 20 Books including: – United States of Arrogance – The Future of Food (volumes 1 & 2) – Geostrategy to Protect Environmental Health & Food Security – Update Your Identity – God vs. Religion Paul has earned 4 Master degrees with honors from New York University (Global Affairs), Michigan State College of Law (Global Food Law), the University of Alabama (Health), and the University of Texas (Educational Leadership). PaulFDavis.com Linkedin.com/in/worldproperties