Cost of Pollution in China: Economic Estimates of Physical Damages
Beijing persuaded the World Bank to cut from a report findings that pollution has caused about 750,000 premature deaths in China each year because of concerns that findings on premature deaths was too sensitive and could provoke “social unrest”, the Financial Times reported. (link / back-up link)
When I looked up the term “social unrest” in Wikipedia (link) I was redirected to the term “rebelion”.
A rebellion is, in the most general sense, a refusal to accept authority. It may therefore be seen as encompassing a range of behaviours from civil disobedience to a violent organized attempt to destroy established authority. It is often used in reference to armed resistance against an established government, but can also refer to mass nonviolent resistance movements.
Given the above description there is a lot of rebellion in this world. And rightly so. (more…)