Big cities are often criticized for the pollution they give off to the air, which is fair. Sometimes I feel a little insulted when people criticize my city, Manhattan.
It can't be the worst. It's not. New numbers demonstrate the hazardous air quality of Beijing, and puts things in perspective.
The United States Embassy in Beijing has been tracking the Air Quality Index, standards set by the United States' EPA, for a few years. Two years ago, in a Tweet, they recorded that Beijing was at a "crazy high..."
500.
As of Saturday, January 12, at 8 p.m., the number reached an all time, off the charts record of 755.
The embassy alerts the public of these numbers using their
@BeijingAir Twitter feed- a method that Beijing officials have criticized and have tried to remove for years.
According to the EPA, air qualities between 301 and 500 are considered to be "hazardous." Numbers off the index are extremely unsafe for residents. Factories operating in neighboring province consist of more than 20 million, but there's no definite answer to why the index went so off the charts. To put things in perspective, at the same time of Beijing's 755 that weekend,
New York City was a 19.Beijing residents are describing the air quality as terrifying and post-apocalyptic. They are searching the stores for face masks and air purifiers and closing their windows and doors to their homes.
Beijing schools kept children indoors and hospitals saw a spike in respiratory cases following this weekend.
What do you think the embassy is going to do? How can we prevent this from happening to our cities? What do you think are going to be the health risks of this?
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I think this reflects how unsafe and dangerous most of the things that are produced in factories there really are. People have been in denial about items "made in china" contain BPA, pthlates, and other hazardous chemicals- well look at what it is doing to that environment just by being in the air. Imagine using a product like that in your home, or ,microwaving your dinner in that? I hope the government there starts doing something about pollution it's not right to their hard working citizens how sad
If people keep telling the truth about pollution in China then the Marxist attempt to use Global Warming and Climate Change to redistribute wealth and destroy the West might fail!
Hide the truth or the West might not destroy itself for no reason!
As for China, only the Chinese people can put enough pressure on the Chinese government to save it. Unless we come up with clean coal and sell it to them I doubt we can do much.
i was in beijing about 3 years back and i must say, it was puzzled by the haze/fog state of the air. it made me wondered whether or not it was pollution and just shrug and thought of it as harmless. it's probably a little late but at least the fact is out in the open for the whole world to know. let's hope their government would do something drastic for the sake of the health of the locals and tourists.
I know how the polution feels. I once got "scary high" in Bejing too.
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