Beijing's Nightmare

Pollution has gotten very bad in China. That is particularly true of the capital city of Beijing.

These are some links that illustrate just how bad it has gotten there nowadays.

China took over the role that the United States had long held before that as the world's biggest polluting nation. I am certainly not a big fan of Americans criticizing the Chinese, or anyone else, for that matter, for things that they themselves are very guilty of. I still remember the incident when American athletes embarrassed the nation (as far as I'm concerned) by showing up to Beijing for the 2008 games wearing masks, as a sort of protest against environmental conditions there. Were they also outraged enough to protest Bush's gutting strong environmental legislation and enforcement at the time? Do they show up wearing similar masks when they visit infamously polluted American areas and cities, such as Los Angeles? Where were they for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico a few years back? Maybe they should show up at places like Ohio and West Virginia when drinking water in those places has clearly become polluted.

Still, in any case, it does seem that Beijing is a particularly striking example of what we, as a world, may face some day, if we do not straighten up our act in a hurry.

Apparently, we may collectively need to take lessons from the Chinese in coping with massive pollution.

Here are some links that show the extent of environmental damage in Beijing:





Inside Beijing's airpocalypse – a city made 'almost uninhabitable' by pollution Oliver Wainwright in Beijing Tuesday 16 December 2014

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/16/beijing-airpocalypse-city-almost-uninhabitable-pollution-china?CMP=fb_gu





China starts televising the sunrise on giant TV screens because Beijing is so clouded in smog By JAMES NYE and ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER, 16 January 2014:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540955/Beijing-clouded-smog-way-sunrise-watch-giant-commercial-screens-Tiananmen-Square.html





32 PHOTOS THAT SHOWS HOW BAD POLLUTION HAS BECOME IN CHINA

http://myscienceacademy.org/2014/11/20/32-photos-that-shows-how-bad-pollution-has-become-in-china/




Beijing Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI)

http://aqicn.org/city/beijing/