The Human Cost of Pollution in China
Posted by Marcos Ancelovici on July 2, 2007
According to the Financial Times, the Chinese government removed from a World Bank report the finding that “750,000 people die prematurely in China each year” from air pollution. The removal was allegedly motivated by the concern that the finding could provoke “social unrest”:
“Missing from this report are the research project’s findings that high air-pollution levels in Chinese cities is leading to the premature deaths of 350,000-400,000 people each year. A further 300,000 people die prematurely each year from exposure to poor air indoors, according to advisers, but little discussion of this issue survived in the report because it was outside the ambit of the Chinese ministries which sponsored the research.
Another 60,000-odd premature deaths were attributable to poor-quality water, largely in the countryside, from severe diarrhoea, and stomach, liver and bladder cancers.
The mortality information was “reluctantly” excised by the World Bank from the published report, according to advisers to the research project.”
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[...] week it was noted that the Chinese government convinced the World Bank to remove the number of premature deaths—750,000—in China each year related to air and water pollution along with 30% of the report, ‘Cost [...]
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