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Lead scares highlight China's environmental dilemma
Yahoo.com ^
| Wed Aug 26
| Dan Martin
Posted on 08/28/2009 11:27:07 PM PDT by Westlander
BEIJING (AFP) – A pair of lead poisoning scandals affecting at least 2,000 children in China are just the latest in a seemingly endless string of pollution scares exposing the dark side of the nation's economic boom.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; death; environment; lead
'a 2007 World Bank report said 750,000 Chinese die prematurely each year due to air and water pollution -- a figure edited out of final versions of the report, reportedly after China warned it could cause social unrest.'
To: Westlander
Welcome to the US, circa 1950s.
/johnny
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posted on
08/28/2009 11:50:29 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: Westlander
They should make more batteries which would be storage for the lead and it would also please Lord Gore.
(that pompous arse should be put in public stocks)
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posted on
08/28/2009 11:57:24 PM PDT
by
This_far
To: JRandomFreeper
Not even the US was quite that bad.
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posted on
08/29/2009 1:16:22 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
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