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China? Pertinent parallels with this part of Chai Jing's censored talk "Under the Dome"[1] (worth watching the whole thing actually).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6X2uwlQGQM&t=42m23s

For an introduction to the problem, and to anyone who hasn't lived in a severely air polluted city, I highly recommend the documentary Under the Dome, released earlier this year and later banned in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6X2uwlQGQM

I still remember 2001 when I first arrived at Hongkong to work. My first day at the office, I got teary eyed. I told my boss why is it so..he told me it's because of the pollution and I should drink lots of water.

It is probably way lot worse now. I saw this documentary recently, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6X2uwlQGQM it is a good watch. FYI China is also destroying marine life in the West Philippine Sea http://globalnation.inquirer.net/120699/ph-slams-china-for-d... http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2014/05/12/1322282/photos-...

⬐ STRML

I am not sure it is so bad there. I lived in HK from 2013-2014 and the pollution was bearable. About 60-120 on the AQI scale (PM2.5)[1]. By US standards that's orange/red (bad) but you get used to it.

In comparison, Beijing is routinely 500+. Manhattan is about 40. And some parts of the west coast push 100+, most likely because of Chinese air floating all the way over the Pacific.

http://aqicn.org/city/hongkong/

⬐ davorb

> Manhattan is about 40

That's insane. Copenhagen is at 80.

Is it in response to that viral video [1] on air pollution that got banned a couple of weeks ago? Nice move.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6X2uwlQGQM

⬐ wodenokoto

There's quite an interesting story surrounding this documentary. Apparently it was initially pushed by state news outlets and the minister of environment and within days garnered over 100 million views in China.

Then later it was reconsidered, and the video removed and articles about it started getting censored.

⬐ hiringcat2

A neighbour came back from a trip there recently. He is old enough to remember the last of the pea soupers we used to see in the UK before they cleaned up the air (a bit).

Air pollution is no joke. They publish the number of people who will die, who will die early, and who will suffer serious complications as a direct result.

⬐ QuantumRoar

The film has been taken offline in China by the Communist Party’s central propaganda department.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/world/asia/china-blocks-we...