Chinese people are seeing blue skies and they are happy as well they should be. The increasing number of cars, coal plants and wind patterns large cities across China make the skies grey.
As Gardiner Harris, a reporter from India wrote recently in the New York Times: “Foreigners have lived in Delhi for centuries, of course, but the air and the mounting research into its effects have become so frightening that some feel it is unethical for those who have a choice to willingly raise children here. Similar discussions are doubtless underway in Beijing and other Asian cities, but it is in Delhi — among the most populous, polluted, unsanitary and bacterially unsafe cities on earth — where the new calculus seems most urgent. The city’s air is more than twice as polluted as Beijing’s.
Fortunately the Chinese government is becoming sensitive to the situation and putting in place programs that will if properly rolled out and enforced succeed in reducing this very serious problem. Last year on a normal high particulate grey day in Beijing, Li Keqiang, the prime minister, declared “war” on air pollution. What this really means is that regulators in the most polluted provinces are ordering mass closures of offending enterprises which in the past they would not have done given its impact on employment and GDP. The good news is that the results may be felt faster than expected further empowering government officials to continue their efforts.
Here is looking forward to more and more blue skies across China.
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