After having experienced somewhat similar pollution in Delhi during my visit last year on thanks-giving time.. I can totally empathize with Beijing residents. Even though it was probably ten times less than what is being reported in Beijing now a days..
I totally call it blind development.. There is no point in developing that fast when you make day to day life of your own citizens under such a enormous health risk. What is this development for? to make quality of life better.. isn't it?? What is the point of having all the modern amenities if you can' live or breath to enjoy them..
There is no easy solution to this problem.. As this article from CNN mentions.. Los Angels had gone thru it starting in 1950s.. however, I am sure, if California hadn't fixed it, our Hollywood would have moved to some other state or may be some other country by now..
not only that, it is question of how we approach and handle such situation. We are mostly blind, if this could be fixed any time soon by Chinese government... I remember that they have instilled multiple temporary measures during Beijing Olympics. Even then there were multiple complaints from Athletes about air quality. At that time I used to think that these Athletes are coming up with excuses.. however.. it seems that there were genuine concerns.. and may be they were temporarily fixed or tried to be fixed but in reality they weren't fixed...
Hope that Chinese government will come up some concrete and long term plan to take care of such situation rather than trying to cover it up or simply restoring to temporary measures..
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/14/world/asia/china-smog-blanket/index.html
I totally call it blind development.. There is no point in developing that fast when you make day to day life of your own citizens under such a enormous health risk. What is this development for? to make quality of life better.. isn't it?? What is the point of having all the modern amenities if you can' live or breath to enjoy them..
There is no easy solution to this problem.. As this article from CNN mentions.. Los Angels had gone thru it starting in 1950s.. however, I am sure, if California hadn't fixed it, our Hollywood would have moved to some other state or may be some other country by now..
not only that, it is question of how we approach and handle such situation. We are mostly blind, if this could be fixed any time soon by Chinese government... I remember that they have instilled multiple temporary measures during Beijing Olympics. Even then there were multiple complaints from Athletes about air quality. At that time I used to think that these Athletes are coming up with excuses.. however.. it seems that there were genuine concerns.. and may be they were temporarily fixed or tried to be fixed but in reality they weren't fixed...
Hope that Chinese government will come up some concrete and long term plan to take care of such situation rather than trying to cover it up or simply restoring to temporary measures..
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/14/world/asia/china-smog-blanket/index.html
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