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I think that people in Beijing and other Asian or American countries should stand up more often and force their governments to install filters on each fabric's
by X4 13y ago
I think that people in Beijing and other Asian or American countries should stand up more often and force their governments to install filters on each fabric's smoke pipe and charge those who don't comply with a big fine. You can then open a petition that votes for using the money generated from that fine to for deploying fuel-less car alternatives… Come on, tell me you're helpless and dependent on your government and that your voice is not worth anything, that you can't change your country.. If you agree sir, I'm sorry. Sorry that you're not standing up for your rights. But then dear citizen, have the courage and inhale the smog in all it's glory and purity.
The DIY Filter idea is great to have a transitional solution and I applaud the startup for this idea. But a government, a country, a company, or a stakeholder, none of them can make profit and money, when there are no trees to cut, no clean air to breathe, no healthy citizen to employ, no educated class to teach, no unpolluted earth for the seed and no will for change. Then you've created the perfect environment for a colony of sheep that follows a butcher who sells himself as a shepard.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoObviously the solution is for Beijing to clean up its act; literally. But it will take them awhile, and we need to worry about this now. As a foreigner in Beijing, I actually have no political rights, though I'm proud of the American embassy for reporting crazy bad pollution in the first place and getting the Chinese government to admit that there was a huge problem more quickly.
- lignuist 13y agoWhile I agree in general, one of the biggest sources (if not the biggest) of dust in Beijing's air is the desert Gobi. It will be pretty hard to build an appropriate filter. ;) In my experience Beijing's air is really "special". Hot, humid, dusty. Not my favorite environment.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoThe dust is not as bad these days as 10 years ago; the tree planting in Inner Mongolia and hebei has worked surprisingly well. These days, pollution from artificial sources is a much bigger problem and we've mostly forgotten about dust, but sand storms still occur occasionally.