China's 'cancer villages' reveal dark side of economic boom " Polluting factories in rural communities form a deadly toxic cocktail for villagers, leading to surging rates of cancer." - the Guardian UK

It is a case of restating the obvious, but deregulated and poorly regulated industry kills people with pollution.

And since conservatives all over the world push for us to disregard this fact, we will have to continue to restate the obvious.

American conservative and right-wing television 'personality' George Will was on the ABC network show "This Week" yesterday, saying that BP was regulated [when it incompetently created the horrendous gusher in the Gulf of Mexico] and rambled on from there, concluding with " the country is saying maybe the regulatory state isn't all that it's cracked up to be."

A few days after that oil rig explosion, one of the survivors was on network television testifying that he had been worried because BP had taken a hurried approach getting the well to production. Weeks later the widow of one of them men killed in that explosion was on ABC saying her husband had hurriedly completed a will, and 'gotten things in order,' because he felt that things were being done in an unsafe manner on the rig. The rig was not properly monitored - people on the rig were filling out procedural paperwork in pencil for the people who were supposed to be watching over them - to be filled in in ink later. The evidence shows that the regulations were far too weak, unenforced and unmonitored, and that BP was unquestionably reckless in its hurry to profit from the oil below the sea.

People died, the environmental effects are severe, and many more people's livelihoods are in doubt.

And George Will pushes back against regulation of industry.

People who want to live in a healthy world are going to have to struggle harder for it, against insanities like those uttered by Mr. Will.

The rest of the Guardian story (about cancer spikes in China) is here.