Web Letters: NIMBY Comes to China

By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

January 18, 2008

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  • China certainly needs an environmental lobby ot organization for the general health of the nation. It would probably be wise for them to use tried and true accusations like "careerists" to describe environmental offenders, and describing themselves as the true Communists. They would have to work within the system to survive.

    Pervis J. Casey

    Riverside, CA

    01/19/2008 @ 10:38pm


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