Photo Finish: Natalie Behring

Greenpeace International asked me to take some photos of coal and air pollution in China, so I went to the most polluted city in China: Linfen, in the impoverished coal-producing province of Shanxi.

I spent several suffocating days in Linfen, on the frontline of China's Industrial Revolution. The city is surrounded by coking plants which burn coal, spewing ash and soot into the atmosphere, making the city feel as if it were suspended in perpetual twilight, with only a muted suggestion of sunlight breaking thorough the murky haze.

Natalie Behring
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Posted on 02/18/08 in Well-Being

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Yikes....how can they live in such harsh conditions?????

By Digikid | February 18, 2008 5:54 PM | Reply

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