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China, the world's fastest growing economy, has earned another startling superlative: the highest annual incidence of premature deaths triggered by air pollution in the world, according to a new study.

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BronxBomber1 year, 1 month ago

Plus the products they make are the deadliest in the world...
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UBCONFUSE1 year, 1 month ago

The Chinese leadership knows about air quality issues. They also know that turning 2 billion people into healthy consumers would spell the end to the Chinese Communist party. Further, at nutritional levels above subsistence, China cannot feed itself.
The current solution is to do nothing at all. This kills 2 birds with one stone. The population shrinks over time and secondly, the entrenched poverty feeds the cheap labor for industry. A win-win for everybody.
Look at it another way, life is cheap in China and nobody cares at the societal level. It is just business in the wildest wild West ever.
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saintetienne1 year, 1 month ago

And yet they are exempt from signing the Kyoto Treaty. Why?
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  invest071 year, 1 month ago
  
  India is also exempt and their emissions are one step behind the ChiComs.
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    skeek1 year, 1 month ago
    
    Perhaps all those Western companies, many of which are American, should just pack up their polluting factories and go home.
    Then see how high wages and pollution controls eat into their profit margins.
    This is simply more fuel to the escalating hysteria in sinophobia because the US is losing the status and economic powerhouse game to the Chinese.
    What's wrong?
    Getting bored with hating Muslims already?
    
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itsme21 year, 1 month ago

So does this explain why we have been getting sick here from thier goods? And how much is this effecting our global warming issue? I would like to see some stats on that!
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Russencrantz1 year, 1 month ago

How deceptive... lets not forget that China and India also have the biggest and densest populations, so "highest numbers" is really not all that meaningful.
If you compare the numbers given to the respective countries total populations; while both China and India have almost four times the polution related deaths as compared to the US, China has actually only sleighty more deaths per capita than India.
Considering that we have a population density less than 1 fourth of China's, we shouldn't be having MORE than 1 fourth their pollution related deaths.
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toph19731 year, 1 month ago

There pollution does affect us here in the US. I remember a couple of years ago in Colorado, we had few very hazy days. They were explaing to us by the weatherman as "particulate" matter from China. Wonderful.
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chevydog1 year, 1 month ago

As the saying goes, there's a price for everything. I rather suspect that in our industrial heyday (1900-1950), had anyone been keeping track of such things, that the US probably had comparable figures.
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Slave2Govt1 year, 1 month ago

Must be that's why Harley Davidson is strongly rumored to have recently opened a chrome plating plant there? OOooopppppsss - noones supposed to really KNOW that though. Unfortunately a man who recently sold his chroming business in Daytona Beach let the cat out of the bag telling a couple of friends how miserable the country was to live in when asked why he turned down the job as plant manager and a huge salary.
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drunkenhunter1 year, 1 month ago

The future of man made Global Warming--if it exists--is in China. No matter what we do. The numbers do not lie. Imagine billions of people living exactly as Americans do...

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aceofspades11 year, 1 month ago

I recently actually spent some time travelling in China - unlike most of you China "experts" I experienced the country &its pollution first hand.
There is no question that heavy industry is polluting the air, in Beijing the sky is yellow in the morning from a combo of pollution & dust particulate blowing in from the Gobi desert. The Yangtzee River is constantly in haze most of it exacerbated by pollution. However, the govt is taking some steps such as limiting the amount of automobiles by raising licensing fees to excessive prices.
China might be a Communist country but I saw less social entitlements there than here - one example - there is no public housing as we know it. Salaries may be low but so are prices for most needs. Food is abundant in all the markets I saw in all the cities I visited.
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