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China’s people desperately want to reduce pollution. In Kaohsiung Taiwan the Love River was a stinking sewer. My challenge was to walk across the bridge without breathing. Voters cured that problem

I remember when Shanghai was dark. Power outages were a way of life.

1988 in ShenYang you could stand on an upper floor of the Phoenix Hotel and watch quarters of the city go dark as they rationed power

At the same time my children were sent to class wearing clean cloth face masks. At days end the masks would have black spots of soot over the nostrils and mouth. Parents suffered this nightmare

Shenyang snow would only be white for a day before it was blackened by soot. I was told coal fired power plants would save money by turning off scrubbers and putting soot into the air.

China’s people are sick of pollution and no political leader wants to oppose their desire to clean the environment.

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