China's urban landscapes appear to be the antithesis of green: smog, foul-smelling streams and canals, roads jammed with exhaust-belching cars, shoddy buildings erected with little heed to building codes.
In many ways, the Hudson has had a startling recovery since the days in the 1960's when it was a foul stream polluted by the raw sewage of cities and towns up and down its length.
(The notoriously foul stream was incorporated by Bazalgette into the sewerage system, and concealed in a culvert that runs beneath Ludgate Circus, at the eastern end of the street; certain parallels with the newspaper industry, however, continued to be visible to its critics).
" 'It spits... a foul-smelling stream.... It's harmless.... Don't tease them with food.' " He avoided the alpaca and looked in the direction of the grownup zoo: "Let's go see a monkey".
The practice reduced majestic treed mountains to barren moonscapes, and fouled streams and valleys with toxic mining debris.
China's own polysilicon industry is controversial because it relies heavily on electricity generated by coal-fired power plants, and because weak environmental controls at Chinese polysilicon factories have resulted in toxic spills that have fouled streams and rivers.
Environmentalists accuse Tyson and other big processors of operating giant factory farm operations that foul rivers, streams and other water supplies.
Han indicated a tall industrial compound in the distance, a chemical manufacturer, which he blames for fouling the stream where he used to hunt for crawfish.
Is a farmer going to build a fence to keep his cattle from fouling a stream?
Despite Goldsmid's efforts to get the Commissioners to cease fouling the stream, the Commissioner refused to act and the situation had worsened.
