"..blindly seeking economical gain.” - Lu Guang

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Bloggers Map China’s Pollution

2009-10-26

Prize-winning photos document the pace—and the price—of China’s economic growth.

HONG KONG—A map pinpointing the exact location of some of the worst-polluted parts of China is making the rounds on the Chinese Internet, as a prize-winning photo exhibit causes many well-heeled urbanites to confront the environmental devastation caused by three decades of breakneck growth.

Inspired by the recent publication online of a series of photos by prize-winning Chinese photographer Lu Guang detailing horrific scenes of industrial pollution around the country, online activists have compiled a Google map of the worst-polluted areas in China.

“I saw the photos by Lu Guang and they had a big impact on me. Those photos won the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, and they really shocked me,” Fujian-based netizen and map compiler Peter Guo Baofeng said.

"..blindly seeking economical gain.” - Lu Guang

More pictures at: http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/

 

[longbow]

You are indeed sad. Another epochtimes article again?

Don't you think it is more important to lift 500M out of abject poverty at the expense of some pollution? We are talking about grinding poverty of the type seen in india and bangladesh. We are talking about starvation type poverty. About farmers committing suicide because a late rain means that the crop is gone and they have nothing left.

Now that the Chinese are on the path of development they are turning their attention to reduction pollution. After all once your citizens meet their basic needs - clean water, food, shelter, proper sanitation - they start looking for quality of life.

if you take a look at India, they have BOTH the pollution and the grinding poverty. Without the economic development India has no way out. no way to pay for better railroads, sanitation, water treatment.

Must not put cart before horse.

Again this article is not from a credible source. Epochtimes is some Falungong publication. Try looking for Economist, Bloomberg, Time, UN, WSJ instead. They are more mainstream, more accurate with less bias.

 

[Leongsam]

"..blindly seeking economical gain.” - Lu Guang
http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/

Should be "...blindly seeking economic gain.".

"Economical" means something else altogether.

That Chinaman is a real twit.