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The Price of Progress
HOME > PAST ISSUE > COVER STORY [Premium content]August 2004
China has the dubious distinction of being able to lay claim to seven of the ten most polluted cities in the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The lifting of 400 million people out of absolute poverty over the last 30 years has had a price, and today environmental degradation is one of the biggest problems facing China and its economy.
Acute water shortages and toxic waterways, air pollution, diminished resources and industrial wastelands - the problems are numerous and vast and increasingly extend well beyond the national borders. But the good news is that the extent of the damage and the unsustainability of current levels ...
Acute water shortages and toxic waterways, air pollution, diminished resources and industrial wastelands - the problems are numerous and vast and increasingly extend well beyond the national borders. But the good news is that the extent of the damage and the unsustainability of current levels ...
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