The Portrait of an Olympic Host: Smog and Mirrors: China's Plan for a
Green Olympics - China won its bid for the 2008 games in part by vowing
to put on a "Green Olympics"

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Olympic stadium under construction in haze, Beijing, China. (AP Photo)

Smog and Mirrors: China's Plan for a Green Olympics

China won its bid for the 2008 games in part by vowing to put on a
"Green Olympics"
By SPENCER REISS

July 25, 2007 ―

Double-digit economic growth is something you can actually see in the
capital city of the People's Capitalist Republic of China. Every 24
hours, another thousand new Buicks, cute little homegrown Cherys, and
buff black Audis swarm onto the 10-lane parking lots that ring the city.
Every other belching truck hauls steel or concrete, every other city
block boasts another 50-story investment scheme. Imperial avenues,
bizarchitecture skyscrapers, distant mountains  all dematerialize in
the stinking haze.