And in your opinion - the fact that the US has had a system of air pollution regulation for decades and china really hasn't had anything enforceable at all that's similar has nothing to do with this?
If I hear one more "the dog made me drop my mask" story... What *really* happened in the back alley -- why were you there in the first place? WHY?
Here are pictures of the smog rolling into the city -- pretty creepy really... http://imgur.com/a/R8YAi
Yeah, that's really bad, Shanghai needs to be more spread out and the population needs to be lower. This is why I think the one child policy isn't the worst idea in the world.
It's definitely not just Shanghai - almost every major province out there was like that when my wife and I visited. Bejing, Xi'an, Chongquin, etc....it was horrifying to see how their complete disregard for the environment was destroying what could have been a gorgeous country. We were there for 3 weeks, and could see the sky only 5 days (generally right after a rain). It was pathetic how our guides kept up the act of saying that it was very "foggy" or "overcast" day after day. No, your apocalyptic pollution has blotted out the sky itself. In Shanghai, we stayed on the 50th floor of our hotel and usually couldn't see to the end of the balcony. As a sidebar, donkey doesn't taste half bad.
I didn't realize the pollution was burning the women so badly -- prayers to the smoking women of China. +
We couldn't "kill" the Earth if we tried. We can sure **** it up for a whole lot of living things though.
lol the person I was dating then suggested that I find shark fin for the soup she cooked me. There was a decent fish market in those back alleys. It's a shame what's happening in China regarding pollution. Not to be too D&D, but a certain political faction believes leaving the free market without any regulations is good for society. I've talked to certain Chinese businessmen whose hyper-capitalist views make staunch conservatives in America seem communist.
I went there and Beijing last month. Shanghai wasn't too bad. It felt like breathing a car garage when everyone's leaving work during the day. At the time though, when I looked at the skyline, the smog in the skyline looked similar to a medium day in L.A. Beijing was similar but real nasty after I left. I definitely didn't like the air and those were considered good days. The water is even more suspect and it's mandatory to use bottled mineral water or some packaged drink. When I went to restaurants, I always wondered how they prepared their mixed drinks...from tap water? Some large bottles? At the very least, they claim to boil the water, but the deal with tap water in China isn't only germs but the industrial waste they dump into rivers and can't clean with traditional sewage and water treatment and reclamation processes. Absolutely scary.
