Pollution kills 750 thousand per year in China, according to a self-censored World Bank study described in the Independent and on Yahoo News. According to these reports, the Chinese government is suppressing knowledge of the issue, rather than addressing the problem, and the World Bank agreed to suppress the data.

While three quarters of a million people in a population of one point three billion is only six out of ten thousand and is a low percentage of the population, this corresponds to 173 thousand Americans. If 173 thousand Americans were dying each year from pollution, which is slightly more than the 150,000 Americans who die each year from stroke, we might be upset.

The worse things are:

• The Chinese government is supressing the news, rather than addressing the problem.
• The Chinese State Environmental Protection Agency, SEPA, and Health Ministry are the agencies suppressing the news.

As China continues to industrialize, as they put an additional 1000 cars on the road each day, things will only get worse.

And according to the World Watch Institute, 16 of the worlds 20 most polluted cities are in China.