Exercise outside? In that climate? But the guy sue-ing purchased a treadmill for indoor use to be healthier and that made no difference for him.
The Cyberpunk future can’t come soon enough, so is it going to start in China, and what are the air quality technologies going to be, or will they exist at all? And that’s the reason for the big divide between over ground and below the smog line people.
INB4 @fishjie tells us China is simply ahead of the curve and speeding up darwinism.
I mentioned it before but it seems worth saying again here. In 2010 I was in Hong Kong for 3 days and wondered why so many people wore surgical masks. And for a week after I back to the US, every time I sneezed my snot and boogers were jet black, I’m talking if I sneezed on black leather or a PS3 the mucus would blend in perfectly.
China has the most factories of any nation so obviously it will display the costly negative effects of speeding up industrialization without taking the proper precautionary measures first, but what about all the countless other nations that also prematurely jumpstarted modern industrialization transition? 99% of them don’t have nearly as much capital to take what few saftey measures China does, so if China is this bad already I can’t imagine how it must be in other places.
i was in beijing for the 2008 olympics.
i was there again in 2011.
the difference was incredible. during my second visit, the sun resembled the moon, even during midday. it felt like you could look at it with no discomfort (i didn’t obviously).
the traffic was insane too.
in 2008 it was beautiful, pity it doesn’t look that way all the time. the chinese people suffer for this more than any shocked horrified westerners that’s for damned sure
That SCMP South China Morning Post had a 4 free article limit, even when I clicked the same 2 twice?
Here’s a pass thru for this article even if its bootleg and repeating the copy paste at least once. A large Smog research machine is finally being made, largest in the world, but.
China to build ‘world’s largest’ smog chamber to solve pollution puzzle
Here’s a 2nd article, even if it takes much from the first one, without citing the greenhouse experiment in lab and in real world conditions, taking 2 months to grow something due to such low exposure to the sun:
WTO corruption, where modern countries moved the industrial revolution over there to say it that way, China makes everything for everyone else-shit we don’t need half the time, really everyone is responsible, and everyone will see the effects, especially someone in the middle of an ocean based on a combination of things with man made screwed up weather patterns.
But yeah corruption in their own govt. pretending it was never a problem, I remember a lookin to a small city of black streams running through the town. Some guy’s house, or shack really where one main way to make money was picking whatever is worth something off of old phone pcbs stacked to his ceiling.
Coal power being the main one in the face of what else, nuclear?, is another major issue why. Besides the move from bikes only 20-25 years ago to so many cars, many of them not modern and smog kept in check, but old Ford’s or whatever company it was.