From Earth Policy Institute

Lester R. Brown, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011).

Janet Larsen, Coal Takes Heavy Human Toll: Some 25,100 U.S. Deaths from Coal Use Largely Preventable, Plan B Update, 24 August 2004.



From Other Sources

Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Institute for Environmental Health and Related Product Safety, The True Cost of Coal—Air Pollution and Public Health, extract (Beijing: Greenpeace, August 2010).

Greenpeace, The True Cost of Coal—An Investigation into Coal Ash in China (Beijing: September 2010).

Lee Liu, “Made in China: Cancer Villages,” Environment (March/April 2010).

Jonathan Watts, “Lead Poisoning Cases Spark Riots in China,” The Lancet, vol. 374, no. 9,693 (12 September 2009), p. 868.

World Bank, Cost of Pollution in China: Economic Estimates of Physical Damages, Conference Edition (Washington, DC: February 2007).

Qin Xue-jun and Shi Huan-zhong, “Major Causes of Death During the Past 25 Years in China,” Chinese Medical Journal, vol. 120, no. 24 (2007), pp. 2,317–20.

Junfeng Zhang et al., “Environmental Health in China: Progress towards Clean Air and Safe Water,” The Lancet, vol. 375, no. 9,720 (27 March 2010), pp. 1,110-19.

Ping Zhao et al., “Cancer Trends in China,” Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol. 40, no. 4 (2010), pp. 281-85.