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Inside Beijing's airpocalypse – a city made 'almost uninhabitable' by pollution
- nathanaldensr 12y agoI wonder how Beijing compares to 18th and 19th century England or the United States. Seems almost like they are going through their own capitalist industrial revolution, judging by these pictures and accounts.
- dalke 12y agochockablock investigated that here on HN, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6864088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6864088 : > So according to these rough calculations the great smog of 1952 probably had a PM2.5 of about 700 ug/m^3, quite similar to the current Shanghai smog, and lower than levels regularly reported in other Chinese cities. The current PM2.5 for Beijing, at http://aqicn.org/city/beijing/ http://aqicn.org/city/beijing/ , is 162 - "unhealthy".