The World’s Most Polluted Places
Posted on November 30, 2007 - Filed Under pollution |
Forbes Magazine released its newest list. And unlike the Forbes 400, this is one you do not want to be on.
According to Forbes:
Black snow. Coal dust. Sulfuric air. Welcome to life in the world’s most polluted places.
Chockablock with heavy metals, chemical waste, air pollutants and, in the case of infamous Chernobyl, Ukraine, deadly radiation, these are the worst industrial cesspools on earth–and they rarely make headlines. Nothing in the West compares.
“In some towns, life expectancy approaches medieval rates, and birth defects are the norm, not the exception,” according to the nonprofit Blacksmith Institute, which compiled the list earlier this fall. “In others, children’s asthma rates are measured above 90%, and mental retardation is endemic.”
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