April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 41m
English
China’s population is so big and its resources so scarce that if we continue to ignore our environmental problems, that will bring disaster for us and the world.
—Pan Yue, China’s Environmental Protection Administration
As an example of the severity of China’s self-inflicted air pollution crisis, it would hard to top the northeast city of Benxi—one of the 20 largest cities in China. At one point, this heavy industry center, which burns roughly seven million tons of coal per year and produces more steel per capita than any other city in China, literally disappeared from satellite images because of the dense cloud of haze and soot that enveloped it.
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