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Growth and Its Discontents

On: August 26th, 2007 at 9:36 am | Number of Comments » 0

There’s been much media coverage on poisoned products from China lately — fake toothpaste, lead paint on Polly Pockets plastic infant bibs, etc. — but what hasn’t been adequately mainstreamed and emphasized in American papers and radio news is the overwhelming, globally endangering, people-choking megatons of pollution that China’s phenomenal growth has caused. Finally, the [...]