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China manages to even make green-tech polluting |
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Written by Stumo
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
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Fun facts on producing solar panels in China.
Polysilicon, which is widely used to make solar panels, is in
short supply. In the rush to make it cheaply, a Chinese company
reportedly is dumping toxic waste into the ground, killing wildlife and
endangering human health.
The newspaper describes green fields in the nation's eastern central
Henan Province that have turned snow white from the powdery waste of
silicon tetrachloride, four tons of which result from every ton of
polysilicon created. Toxic hydrogen chloride gas and acids waft from
the waste. ...
Silicon tetrachloride can be recycled. But manufacturers
reportedly can make polysilicon about two-thirds more cheaply if they
ignore environmental protections.
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Globalization causes inequality, insecurity, wage loss, new book says
A new book by economist Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute provides a compelling reason for the Obama administration and Congress to think big about how to reduce economic inequality and insecurity in the years to come: Most working Americans have suffered steady and significant income losses that stem from global integration.
Everybody wins, except for most of us: what economics teaches about globalization, released today by EPI, finds that trade flows likely cost a full-time U.S. worker earning the median wage $1,400 in 2006. This loss rivals or exceeds what median wage-earners experienced during the recession of the early 2000s. For workers on its losing end, globalization has felt like a chronic (if largely unseen) recession – one that requires a policy response as ambitious as that offered against today's very visible economic downturn.
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