ScrAPES#14: Smog So Thick, Beijing Comes to a Standstill
by Edward Wong
December 8, 2015
As everyone knows China is an extremely populous country and also pollutant. In Beijing, people were alerted when there was a poisonous air quality which resulted to close schools, factories, and motorists off the road. The government issued a report stating to people to be careful with their health because of the hazardous air. This is the first time China alerted a red alert on their severe air pollution. The municipal air quality index read 308 which was considered very harmful to the United States standards. Even though the Chinese government is taking action, people are still criticizing the poor environment China has to offer.
This article is interesting to me because as I already know China has the most populated people in the world, but I did not know that China's environment was very ugly due to its severe pollution. I only found this out recently, maybe a year or two ago? China is one of the strong, wealthy countries, but what is a very wealthy country when its environment is crap? China can at least present itself nicely. They have plenty of money but is not taking much action to decrease pollution or is it too late? I question how people survive living in China because it is so hazardous that I expect an amount of death. If I lived in China I would stay home and probably just go out for grocery shopping because I would not want to be breathing a like-able toxic air.
This concerns China's environment very much and also others. It concerns China's environment because as said before this is EXTREME pollution and EXTREME health risks. Their plants and animals will die or is already most likely dead, and lastly their people. Who wants to die? No one wants to die. China is slowly to moderately killing planet Earth simply because they wanted a better economy. They ignored pollution and pollution took over them. How much more if the world ignored global warming? Soon global warming will take over us and we will die. People start believing when things are falling apart.
Resources:
Smog So Thick, Beijing Come to a Standstill
This article is interesting to me because as I already know China has the most populated people in the world, but I did not know that China's environment was very ugly due to its severe pollution. I only found this out recently, maybe a year or two ago? China is one of the strong, wealthy countries, but what is a very wealthy country when its environment is crap? China can at least present itself nicely. They have plenty of money but is not taking much action to decrease pollution or is it too late? I question how people survive living in China because it is so hazardous that I expect an amount of death. If I lived in China I would stay home and probably just go out for grocery shopping because I would not want to be breathing a like-able toxic air.
This concerns China's environment very much and also others. It concerns China's environment because as said before this is EXTREME pollution and EXTREME health risks. Their plants and animals will die or is already most likely dead, and lastly their people. Who wants to die? No one wants to die. China is slowly to moderately killing planet Earth simply because they wanted a better economy. They ignored pollution and pollution took over them. How much more if the world ignored global warming? Soon global warming will take over us and we will die. People start believing when things are falling apart.Resources:
Smog So Thick, Beijing Come to a Standstill
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