A recent tragedy, an 8-year old girl living near a highway in the coastal province of Jiangsu diagnosed with lung cancer, has stirred up unrest. Once again the central government has vowed to wage war on air pollution but that's a promise that has been heard before.
Here are a few photographs of the latest Airpocalypse from a spread in The Guardian that speak louder than can any words.
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| Police checkpoint halts highway traffic |
2 comments:
Looks like a mild version of the pea soup fogs I walked through to primary school as a British kid in the '50s. That was mostly because we all burnt coal for domestic heat. We had a closet in our 2nd story flat where the coal-man dumped the rocks (remember the dust too). Yet the pleasure of the warmth from sitting in front of the living room coal fire on a chilly morning with a bowl of oatmeal was amazing.
I wasn't around for the killer fogs in London but my flat in East Dulwich had a coal burner in the lounge. There was a manhole arrangement outside where the coal merchant could deliver the order directly via a chute to the cellar. By then I think most people were using portable electric heaters.
I'm not sure that China's problems will be nearly so easily remedied as London's.
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