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...many Chinese people do not have the luxury of seeing this side of China. This summer, Shanghai had record high temperatures, and any resident would tell you that clear days are rare. But just as we would not want America to be defined by the state of its biggest, dirtiest cities, we should not judge China’s environmental practices by its worst examples...
...Saudi Arabia of coal," Dingell recently declared. We have seemingly endless tons of the stuff, which can be converted into liquid fuel for cars. Coal boosters are pushing legislation through Congress to subsidize the use of coal instead of oil. The only problem: coal is the dirtiest source of greenhouse gases. Representative Rick Boucher, from Virginia's mining country, chairs the subcommittee on energy, but coal's influence goes further than that. Twenty-seven House Democrats hail from coal regions--a deeply meaningful number when Democrats control the chamber by just 16 votes...
...TIME: Your biography is titled Rabble-Rouser for Peace, which sounds like a contradictory concept. Tutu: I heard someone say you must wear your dirtiest pants if you want to be involved in working for peace. When you care about any injustice and fight for it, it's rough in the arena...
...take their trash collection seriously. Pity the poor gaijin who mixes his combustibles with his noncombustibles. But that conscientiousness is often left at base camp when Japanese climb Mount Fuji. One of Japan's most revered natural wonders, the 3,776-m mountain may also be one of its dirtiest. The 200,000 or so visitors who climb Mount Fuji every high season leave behind panoramic piles of refuse on the peak, while overworked toilets along the climbing trail overflow with excrement...
African money is among the dirtiest in the world - literally. Many African central banks simply don't replace notes until they fall apart. In countries torn by war, like the Democratic Republic of Congo or Sierra Leone, years can pass before new notes are printed. In Somalia a few years back, bank notes became so scarce that warlords started printing their own money, causing inflation, predictably, to skyrocket...