Daily Grist: CHINA, MORE POLLUTED & GETTING WORSE

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At 12:19 PM 8/27/07, you wrote:

 

>And Now for Something Completely Familiar

>China's environment still terribly polluted, getting worse

>

>Almost nowhere else on earth today is a source for so much environmental

>gloom and doom as China. To sum up: It's bad. In fact, for those prone to

>hopelessness ... read on, there's plenty to get depressed about. Nearly

>500 million people in China lack access to safe drinking water. About

>750,000 people die every year due to outdoor air pollution and water

>pollution. And only 1 percent of China's 560 million urbanites breathe air

>that's considered safe by the European Union. Relatively recent attempts

>by the central government to control pollution have met resistance from

>local leaders who are often in collusion with industry. Thousands of

>protests and riots break out each year in the country due to pollution and

>health concerns, and the government has banned the publication of

>pollution health statistics since it could incite further social unrest.

> " Typically, industrial countries deal with green problems when they are

>rich, " said Ren Yong, of the Center for Environment and Economy in

>Beijing. " We have to deal with them while we are still poor. There is no

>model for us to follow. "

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>straight to the source: The New York Times, Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley,

>26 Aug 2007

>

>see also, in Grist: Faced with rampant pollution, China reports increase

>in citizen protests

 

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