Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Incredible Pollution in China

The BBC has some video of the terrible smog currently in Beijing -- they say hundreds of flights have had to be cancelled, and hospital admissions are up by 1/3rd.


And here's a site I came across of a exhibit on "Pollution in China" by photographer Lu Guang. The picture below is just one of them -- click through for several others that are equally as scary. This one looks like 1890s Pittsburgh (and I'm not sure it was ever this bad).

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The interview with Guang is equally eye-opening.

1 comment:

riverat said...

How much of that is blowing over here into the Pacific Northwest?