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China pressured World Bank to cover up pollution-related deaths .

If you follow this link, you'll learn that the Chinese government successfully pressured the World Bank to cut from a recent report the conclusion that pollution has caused about 750,000 premature deaths in China each year, the Financial Times has reported.

Here is the comment I posted when I read this story:

Terrific story, getting this out. The Chinese government needs to be embarrassed and the press is the only way to do that. Especially, with the Olympics looming, China wants to look good -- this is the best moment for the rest of the world to extract some commitments to a new age of environmental regulation.

This kind of emphasis on critical global reporting is what MyWire presents to readers, while other sites present celebrity news, etc. With the new awareness that we all are interconnected, and able to communicate worldwide with just a few keystrokes, the challenge facing humanity is how will we help one another do the right things to survive as a species?

A critical building block in forging a new world consciousness will be an active press, an investigative press, a fearless press. In the case of this particular story, the international press and global public opinion can jointly exert helpful pressure on a government overseeing an exploding economy that needs to be pressured for its own good, and for the good of us all.

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