Smog So Thick, Beijing Comes to a Standstill

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.




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Smog So Thick, Beijing Come to a Standstill

Study Links Polluted Air in China to 1.6 Million Deaths a Year

ScrAPES#4: Study Links Polluted Air in China to 1.6 Million Deaths a Year

by Dan Levin

August 13, 2015

            In China, which population stands at approximately 1.357 billion, contributes to the deaths of an estimated 1.6 million people every year due to it's toxic air which terminates smogs that originated from emissions in a distant industrial zone. Studies show that pollutants had airborne particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter. This motive's aftereffect leads to asthma, strokes, lung cancer and heart attacks. Ninety percent of 360 cities in China failed to meet the standards of air quality in the first few months of this year. Air pollution subsidizes seventeen percent of deaths in the nation each year. For China most of their air pollution are caused by coal-burning factories in Shijiazhuang of Hebei Province. 

                It is utterly interesting to me that China's President, Xi Jinping and their government could not have done any more diminishing egregious ways for their community and even in a whole country to suffer. I have heard plenty of rumors about China; from being a communist to invading countries like the Philippines, Tibet, Japan and soon other Eastern and Southeast Asian countries. I am not surprise that China has a mere tremendous amount of pollution, China is most likely the uttermost polluted and unhealthy country in the world. Their climate is unquestionably unhealthy, absence in social classes, equality, and money. They use their people primarily as slaves because of inequality and selfish desires. I know for a fact that as long as China's pollution is grave no one would want to visit. So then if there are no tourist there will be no appreciation for the good things of China. I am not saying China is an unacceptable country because every country has it's good and bad, but I am saying that China needs to change for their government, people, and society. 

Couple poses with gas mask for their wedding photos to protest heavy
pollution in China.

           China's pollution relates to the environment because it's fallout increases death tolls, and appalling environment; for example parks, grass, trees, and animals. Overall China in the future will soon see itself as the land of the forgotten. Everything will die not only because of pollution but because of mother nature itself as well, like global warming, changes of atomic plates, erosions, volcanic eruptions, and much more. Currently their people, the Chinese, are suffering from pollution. Most are suffering asthma and lung cancer due to their lungs taking up polluted air because polluted air consist of harmful and poisonous effects. They are also most likely iron deficient due to lack of sunlight. Iron deficiency can result to anemia and severe anemia can cause to heart diseases such as heart disease and for pregnant women it can result to newborns with deformation. Animals and plants are dying too. If trees die there will be barely any oxygen for living things to take in and also causes starvation because of lack of sources for food, since everything will die. It is partially the China's government's misdeed to why air is polluted because they are careless to  fix their dispute. Other than that just because China's government is fallacious their people and climate need to be much more vigorous; Citizens need to have equality, jobs, and lively environment for a valuable outcome.

Sources: 

• Study Links Polluted Air in China to 1.6 Million Deaths a Year
• 23 Shocking Photos Reveal How Bad China’s Pollution Problem Has Become
• Couple Poses With Gas Masks For Their Wedding Photos To Protest Heavy Pollution In China