∞ Asia Voyage ∞

[Deine Mudder]

So what you're saying is the air is so dirty there it makes the rain that falls through it so dirty that it's unhealthy for you?

[!@#$%]

deine they are probably right to run away from it.

acid rain is a huge problem in china, and air pollution is so bad there they think it is lowering china's life expectancies by at least 5 years.

 

you may know, the bees in china are long gone; they now have to hand-pollinate (something only possible with the excess of cheap labor)

 

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/01/14/beijing_pollution_breaks_china_s_air_quality_index_why_china_needs_a_war.html

For a bleak reminder of its importance, we need only glance sidelong at Beijing, where the U.S. Embassy on Saturday evening showed an air-quality reading of 755, reports the Wall Street Journal. A rating of 300 is considered “extremely rare” in the United States and happens mainly during forest fires, according to the EPA. The scale typically only goes up to 500, with ratings above that listed as “beyond index.”

 

Dongying is at 825 right now.

http://aqicn.info/map/china/

[Walid Jumblat]

yup, actual acid rain.

[Deine Mudder]

wtf..