that does not entail being anti-muslim or anti-islamic. and i think we re seeing a change in the rhetoric now. i mean some of the statements coming from politicians, i think that s extremely important that you show solidarity. and i think it s also important on the part of media they show solidarity and they do not engage in self-censorship. they actually republish some of the cartoons that put charlie hebdo in the crosshairs of extremists. if all the news outlets do this then the terrorists will never be able to enforce their red lines. when publications have blurred images when they have engaged in joining the censorship, we ve seen mass outrage. thank you so much, for your time today. we re looking at a live picture. we wanted to update you quickly, of 15,000 people in fact demonstrating in paris now.
studies by a number of journals show that more than a million chinese died prematurely every year because of the country s poor air quality. and then there s the public response. in the west, we tend to hear only about the big incidents. for example, this time last year when thousands of dead pigs were found floating in a river near shanghai or 39 tons of a dead chemical leaked into one of china s main river. all of these incidents and others have led to mass outrage and protests. but often, unreported at a smaller level every day across this vast country, there are hundreds of local protests about the environment. china s society of environmental sciences reports that protests about the environment have grown by an average of 29% every year between 1996 and 2011. there are some reports that a majority of the organized protests in china are about the poor quality of air and water.
these factories are actually run by powerful state-owned companies with links to politicians in the upper echelons of government. for the first time there s a requirement to publicly acknowledge the environmental impact of mass-scale production and to take steps to go green. if you look at the numbers, perhaps we should have seen this coming. according to the world bank, the impacts of china s environmental degradation costs the country 9% of its gross national income. studies by a number of journals show that more than a million chinese died prematurely every year because of the country s poor air quality. and then there s the public response. in the west, we tend to hear only about the big incidents. for example, this time last year when thousands of dead pigs were found floating in a river near shanghai or 39 tons of a dead chemical leaked into one of china s main river. all of these incidents and others have led to mass outrage and protests. but often, unreported at a smaller level