The World Bank is putting together a report titled: “Cost of Pollution in China: Economic Estimates of Physical Damages.” The goal of the report is to discover what the effect pollution has on China as a whole. And it turns out that there is a significant loss of life in China due to pollution. Significant meaning three-quarters of a million people in China die pollution-related deaths each year.
…pollution levels in Chinese cities cause 350,000 to 400,000 premature deaths each year, the newspaper said. Another 300,000 people die from exposure to poor air indoors, and more than 60,000 die due to poor quality water, it said.
That is some major league information. It is so damaging that the Chinese government talked the World Bank out of putting it in the report. Yes, you read that correctly. The data that shows 750,000 pollution-related deaths will not be included in the report because China does not want it there.
Beijing persuaded the World Bank to cut from a report findings that pollution has caused about 750,000 premature deaths in China each year, the Financial Times reported.
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“The World Bank was told that it could not publish this information. It was too sensitive and could cause social unrest,” one unnamed adviser told the Financial Times.
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The mortality information was “reluctantly” cut by the World Bank, according to advisers to the project, the newspaper said.
Classy. You can be sure that the citizens being killed off have not read this article.
Communist governments lie. Always have and probably always will. This is just another example.
