News, Chinese pay toxic price for a green world. (city)

[JD59]

Just outside the heavily polluted industrial city of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, surrounded by smokestacks, lies a lake with no name.

At this time of year the lake bed freezes into waves of solid mud. In summer, locals say, it oozes a viscous, red liquid. It is a “tailing lake”, where toxic rare earth elements from a mine 100 miles away are stored for further processing.

Chinese pay toxic price for a green world - Times Online

[HappyTexan]

China is the poster child for industry gone wild with no regulation whatsoever.

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Originally Posted by HappyTexan

China is the poster child for industry gone wild with no regulation whatsoever.

Exactly.

Cancer is going to take care of their overpopulation problem soon.