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https://scmp.com/business/article/1083330/sheer-wilful-stupidity-official-inaction-pollution
Business

The sheer wilful stupidity of official inaction on pollution

It would be far cheaper for the government to tackle air pollution now, rather than in a few decades when the health costs will be incalculable

The single most effective thing the government could do to ensure it can meet its future health care liabilities would be to cut local pollution levels.

This week's Audit Commission report on the effectiveness of the Hong Kong government's pollution policy makes depressing reading.

That is not so much because of the government's repeated failure to meet even its own modest environmental targets, although that's dismal enough.