Pollution looms, minister warns China

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Pollution could kill substantial numbers of children if China goes ahead with an extraordinarily ambitious plan to quadruple its economy by 2020, Environment Minister David Anderson warned Chinese students yesterday.

At the start of a 10-day tour of the world's most populous country, the federal minister urged China to develop new technology to prevent a drastic worsening of pollution.

He joined a chorus of environmental experts who have voiced alarm at Beijing's official goal of quadrupling the size of its economy within the next 17 years.

"If the economy is to grow fourfold in China, you cannot have a fourfold increase in air pollution without substantial death numbers, especially children," Mr. Anderson told students at Beijing's Tsinghua University.

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Anyone who's visited China knows this is one of the biggest reasons American corps. went to China in the first place. They and everyone can dump anything they want anywhere. If it happens to immediately kill someone, never mind, there's no judicial system, there're no police who would take a report even if the by chance might know how to or even have a form to do so.

[sam sarrha]

1. Environmental pollution is presently the major cause of death in China..

and i believe that the Chinese Government is the major cause of death in Tibet... about 25% of the population has been victim to the planned Genocide there.