Ambient Lead Pollution in China
The LA Times has a sad article today about industrial lead emissions in specific regions in China . The article says that this is direct evidence of the pollution haven hypothesis. As developed countries regulated lead emissions, China grabbed this market and produced lead that is used as an input in making car batteries. The growth in exports scaled up this production and the population is now suffering the public health consequences.
For evidence on the medium term and long term consequences of lead exposure go here http://www3.amherst.edu/~jwreyes/papers.html .
If Jessica is right, then a generation of exposed children will have troubled adulthoods and also cause social problems measured in terms of higher crime rates.
Siqi Zheng and I have documented and explained recent pollution progress across China's major cities but we focused on ambient particulates and so2. It would interest me to see some cross-city research for China's major cities focused on ambient lead levels.
For evidence on the medium term and long term consequences of lead exposure go here http://www3.amherst.edu/~jwreyes/papers.html .
If Jessica is right, then a generation of exposed children will have troubled adulthoods and also cause social problems measured in terms of higher crime rates.
Siqi Zheng and I have documented and explained recent pollution progress across China's major cities but we focused on ambient particulates and so2. It would interest me to see some cross-city research for China's major cities focused on ambient lead levels.
posted by Matthew Kahn at 8:08 AM
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