Beijings airpocalypase- city on the verge of being uninhabitable

I went to work in China for a few months. The pollution is bad. Here is a picture of a typical day.

I went to work in China for a few months. The pollution is bad. Here is a picture of a typical day.

[link to www.msn.com]


Beijing’s air quality has long been a cause of concern, but the effects of its extreme levels of pollution on daily life can now be seen in physical changes to the architecture of the city. Buildings and spaces are being reconfigured and daily routines modified to allow normal life to go on beneath the toxic shroud.

Paper face masks have been common here for a long time, but now the heavy-duty kind with purifying canister filters – of the sort you might wear for a day of asbestos removal – are frequently seen on the streets. On bad days, bike lanes are completely deserted, as people stay at home or retreat to the conditioned environments of hermetically-sealed malls. It’s as if the 21-million-strong population of the Chinese capital is engaged in a mass city-wide rehearsal for life on an inhospitable planet. Only it’s not a rehearsal: the poisonous atmosphere is already here.



Maybe the reason for all the ghost cities, it would seem several large cities will be uninhabitable within 10 years.