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The Paradox of ‘Sustainable’ Pollution

By Jane Zhang • Translation by Véronique Phelut • June 4, 2013

For the original in French by Jane Zhang on Greenetvert click here. As the world’s governments gathered to discuss sustainable development at the Rio+20 conference last year, vast heavy metal pollution from a steel plant […]