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Communist countries tend to be environmental disasters.

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Communist countries tend to be environmental disasters.

That's true. I suppose the complete elimination of public opinion as a controlling factor causes industry to go haywire (from a perspective of proportion and responsibility).

Another tid bit from the article:

Twenty million tonnes of industrial sewage were discharged into the river every year at Baiyin, a metallurgical industrial base in China's northwestern Gansu province...

"Many of our children have no hair and bad teeth," the paper quoted Wang Mingzhi, a Baiyin resident, as saying.

"Heavy metals in the water are very harmful to people's health," Wang said.