It's truly remarkable how far China has come. But Chinese cities often seem wrapped in a toxic gray shroud. Only 1 percent of the country’s 560 million city dwellers breathe air considered safe.Industrial cities where people rarely see the sun; children killed or sickened by lead poisoning or other types of local pollution; a coastline so swamped by algal red tides that large sections of the ocean no longer sustain marine life.
And those issues will likely eventually affect the other countries that are industrializing now. Hopefully they'll learn some valuable lessons, but I fear they will not.
Industrializing has cost every country quite a bit, China is certainly no exception, but it hasupsides. Really your phrase should have been "less frequently lethal and disabling", which reflects the real choices they had.
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Lovely euphemisms for "frequently lethal and disabling."
Do they apply to China's use of slave labor?
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It's truly remarkable how far China has come. But Chinese cities often seem wrapped in a toxic gray shroud. Only 1 percent of the country’s 560 million city dwellers breathe air considered safe.Industrial cities where people rarely see the sun; children killed or sickened by lead poisoning or other types of local pollution; a coastline so swamped by algal red tides that large sections of the ocean no longer sustain marine life.
And those issues will likely eventually affect the other countries that are industrializing now. Hopefully they'll learn some valuable lessons, but I fear they will not.
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