Schoolchildren ordered indoors as air pollution cloaks Shanghai
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#2Unbelievable http://i.imgur.com/lef99jm.jpg
Has to take years off your life to be breathing that.
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#3Sad. I love -- _love_ -- that city, but I could never live there again, not breathing that.
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#4I've seen sci-fi depictions of over-industrialized mega-city scapes, but I never thought I'd actually get to see a picture of one. To call that surreal is an understatement.
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#5Such a shame; an amazing city with wonderful prospects, becoming almost entirely uninhabitable.
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#6What? But China ratified the Kyoto protocol and pledged to reduce their pollution. This can't be true! It's almost as if the country completely disregarded the treaty to grow their economy at any expense.
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#7Yeah, today was not a great day to be here. We contemplated not letting our children go outside, but eventually sent them to school.
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#8I know someone over in China at the moment and they said that the pollution was so bad this morning that looking out of a window you couldn't see the building next it. Scary thought of how much damage that'd do to your lungs.
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#9What? But China ratified the Kyoto protocol and pledged to reduce their pollution. This can't be true! It's almost as if the country completely disregarded the treaty to grow their economy at any expense.
The Kyoto protocol has to do with CO2 emissions, which are very different from the sort of particulate and sulfur pollution described in the article. Also, I have no idea whether China is actually following that treaty, but the reason the US didn't sign was that it did actually allow China to drastically increase the amount of fossil fuels it burns.
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#10I love China but pollution, the great firewall, and visa complications make it less attractive as somewhere to live.