<strong>Written By:</strong> Ed Deak
<strong>Date:</strong> 2007-07-04 09:10:52
<a href="/article/151052667-china-buried-in-smog">Article Link</a>

The World Bank told the BBC the final version had not yet been finalised.

But a statement added: "[A preliminary] version of the report did not include some of the issues that are still under discussion."

The Financial Times said the Bank report, entitled 'Cost of Pollution in China', found up to 760,000 people die prematurely each year in China because of air and water pollution.

High levels of air pollution in China's cities leads to 350,000-400,000 premature deaths, it said. Another 300,000 die because of poor-quality air indoors.

The newspaper article, quoting World Bank advisers and Chinese officials, also said research showing that there are 60,000 premature deaths each year because of poor-quality water was also left out of the report.

Story from BBC NEWS:
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Published: 2007/07/03 12:03:59 GMT

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[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on July 5, 2007]

   

And here in Southern Ontario, whenever we get a southwest wind, we`re buried in smog too.

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Dave Ruston

   

The costs always being much greater than the wealth itself. The forever costs of loss of life and destruction of the environment cannot be measured now or into the future so wealth at any cost, advocates, assign it a zero value in the equation.

Taking life from our neighbours and stealing from the future to produce fleeting gratification in the present is the moral level of Corporate greed driving forces.

It's about the human equivalent of drug addiction, mindless, impaired, dangerous to others and self destructive.

Profit is the drug that needs some form of rehab for the executives.

Just musings from a paddler.