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The environmental cost of China's economic growth

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Pollution in China
A Chinese cyclist rides past a cloud of steam billowing from underground in Beijing. International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said some events at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing could be postponed if pollution was extremely bad, in what would be an unprecedented move to protect athletes' health.
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Pollution in China
A Chinese cyclist rides past a cloud of steam billowing from underground in Beijing. International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said some events at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing could be postponed if pollution was extremely bad, in what would be an unprecedented move to protect athletes' health.
TEH ENG KOON/AFP/Getty Images