Pollution: Until it hurts business, it won't clear up

Images of China's pollution graced the front pages of international newspapers this past weekend, but will all the attention force change? Probably not.
<div style="text-align: left;"> Since air quality goals were enacted 25 years ago, Hong Kong has not once met them </div>
<div style="text-align: left;"> Since air quality goals were enacted 25 years ago, Hong Kong has not once met them </div>
January 15, 2013

Much ado was made of Beijing’s toxic pollution this past weekend — with photos of smog splashed across international newspaper fronts and broadcast journalists spewing that the end of the world was almost upon us.

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