<![CDATA['Choking On Its Own Success': Chinese Pollution Grows With Its Economy]]>

1.0 link 61842 <![CDATA['Choking On Its Own Success': Chinese Pollution Grows With Its Economy]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/08/26/choking-on-its-own-succes_n_61842.html No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take decades and big dollops of public wealth to undo.

But just as the speed and scale of China's rise as an economic power have no clear parallel in history, so its pollution problem has shattered all precedents. Environmental degradation is now so severe, with such stark domestic and international repercussions, that pollution poses not only a major long-term burden on...

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