http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/1787/vikrant-bhatnagar Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:29:20 -0400 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:29:20 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/859/the-chinese-pollution-problem-and-the-politics-of-airpocalypse By Vikrant Bhatnagar - In 1992 during his famed Southern Trip, Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader of the Communist Party of China, proclaimed that "To Get Rich Is Glorious[1]." This slogan ignited the economic revolution in China. It is through this very notion of economic productivity and the search for wealth that China also adopted another motto – growth at all costs. Two decades later, China is no longer the third world country that Deng Xiaoping lived in, but an economic powerhouse that has turned a blind eye towards its environment. Whether you look outward towards the water, or inward towards the land,... Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:35 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/859/the-chinese-pollution-problem-and-the-politics-of-airpocalypse