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Pollution in China's Tai Lake worse despite national push for environmentalism
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Pollution on China's Tai lake, near Shanghai. The lake pollution just as bad as before the cleanup effort. The sense that China's anti-pollution efforts have suffered after the 2008 financial crisis. Things have moved backwards as the focus on economic growth and jobs again assumed top priority at the expense of other goals. The costly cleanup effort China faces after three decades of such growth that ignored environmental damage. The personal cost of activists supporting social goals in today's China. It also points to the impact of runaway growth in developing countries, in the areas of pollution, corruption and the misallocation of resources. Misallocation of resources through crony capitalism and low productivity of capital led to the Asian financial crisis of 1997.
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The situation in India and China and developing countries. The significance of clean water supplies for farmers and people in the rural areas.
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