Can China be cleaned up?
Now that China is the world’s biggest polluter, with up to 750,000 people dying each year from air pollution in large cities, and government officials warning that the environment is close to breakdown, the question being asked is “Can China be cleaned up?”
From The Guardian Unlimited article China needs to clean up its act:
The problem is that, as Ma Jun, China’s top environmental campaigner tells The Observer today, there are no independent courts, no free media and no system of political accountability, and China’s companies have no sense of corporate responsibility. Unless the communist political system changes, the Chinese people, like the rest of us, can expect its economy to remain filthy.
Who is Ma Jun? The Guardian has a profile on him today: The man making the world’s worst polluter clean up its act.
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