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Just 30 minutes outside of Johannesburg lies the Vaal Triangle, a region of South Africa that Bloomberg is calling the most polluted place on Earth. The 1.7 million people who live there are forced to endure the perilous onslaught of some of the planet's most hazardous pollution, the publication noted, thanks in large part to a heavy veil of smoke that cloaks Africa’s biggest steel mill.
Yes, coal might have "ensured industrialisation and economic growth in the area," as a plaque proclaims, but it also has a dark side. Vereeniging regularly registers the highest concentration of microscopic emissions known as PM2.5, according to Bloomberg Green analysis of data from nonprofit OpenAQ, which runs an open-source network of over 4 000 sensors monitoring particulate pollution worldwide.
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