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The need for electrical power is so great in Shanghai that migrant workers are hired to hook high voltage wires. They strap one around their waist and pull it across an already stressed grid by walking on the actual wires that bring the electricity.
A coal power plant contributing air pollution comes online every four to five days in China that can power a city the size of San Diego. Air pollution contributed by these plants kills 400,000 people prematurely every year.
- Copyright
- RANDY OLSON
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- 8736x5824 / 35.2MB
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- Contained in galleries
- China's Bling Dynasty_National Geographic Magazine 5/2008
