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It hasn't just been China. Pharmaceutical manufacturing in India is an environmental disaster.

• dredmorbius 8y ago
  Certainly, much of the developing world is in the same boat. What's notable is that China is actively and aggressively transitioning.
  • Tsubasachan 8y ago
    Becoming the factory of the world was never China's end goal, just a step on the road to a first world economy. Now that China is becoming more middle class they don't need low skill jobs as much anymore.
• khuey 8y ago
  Anywhere I can read more on that?
  • icelancer 8y ago
    Viceland has a good series called Hamilton's Pharmacopeia which goes into some of this as well as other third-world drug manufacturing... processes.