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Lack of green anger at mining tragedies

Energy

Is there anybody else in Hong Kong who, like me, marvels at the selective humanitarianism of environmentalists?

Yesterday, there was a brief report in your China pages ('Seven coalminers killed by poison gas') of yet another coal mining tragedy on the mainland, this time in Hubei.

This seems to be a regular occurrence in China and, taken with the rest of the world, must add up to hundreds of coalminer deaths each year. If just one of these deaths occurred in the nuclear industry, the streets of the world's major cities would be clogged with outraged greenies loudly demanding the closure of the nuclear industry.

Yet not a skerrick of concern for the poor miners and their families.

L. J. O'DONOGHUE

Mid-Levels

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