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Personal webnode of Haiko Hebig

The Ruhr Valley city of Dortmund, where ThyssenKrupp once made steel, still suffers from high unemployment because of the loss of jobs to lower-cost countries like China. But Germans can buy Chinese-made iPods, washing machines and cargo ships at prices that, because of lax pollution controls, do not reflect the toll on the environment. And the outsourcing of polluting industries has given them cleaner air and water.

It appeared in The New York Times, it's called "China Grabs West’s Smoke-Spewing Factories" and it's hands down the best story on what's going on my city and region I've seen so far.

The very change that story is about, this epochal change we are witnessing happening right in front of our doorsteps, is what makes me pull out my photo camera again and again.

"Germans did not have to dismantle their own industrial patrimony. Hangang sent workers to Dortmund." →