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In its rush to recreate the industrial revolution that made the West rich, China has absorbed most of the major industries that once made the West dirty.

This is the ninth in a series of articles and multimedia examining the human toll, global impact and political challenge of China's epic pollution crisis.

Link to complete coverage:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/12/21/world/asi...

"A study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found that if all the goods that the United States imported between 1997 and 2004 had been produced domestically, America's carbon emissions would have been 30 percent higher."
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2 responses // China Grabs West's Smoke-Spewing Factories

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_of_China
    Pollution crisis indeed! Any pollution problem with its own wiki is definitely something to worry about. What a great series of articles. But I wonder why, with what people know now about the effects of industrialization on pollution, development went along in a similar way instead of trying to avoid this and start off on a cleaner path.
    abbym0308
  • If there was one country that should be embracing alt-fuel you'd think it would be China! Why aren't they building geo-thermal plants instead of coal?
    crob80227

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