THE AIR THAT I BREATHE

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ITEM: Hong Kong's roadside air pollution reached life-threatening levels one in every eight days in 2009, according to a report citing govt figures.

However, a team of scientists from Hong Kong University of Science and say their own findings are two or three times higher than the government figures.

Close enough. There’s little question that air pollution here is pretty bad and getting worse – so much so that people with money have been moving out.

It’s what eventually gave the bridal unit asthma. And she’s FROM here.

Part of the problem is that we import a lot of our pollution from China via all the factories on the Pearl River Delta. The other part of the problem is that our chief executive tends to point this out as an excuse to not do anything about it – or to downplay it by saying things like, “Hey, our air is as clean as Barcelona’s, so what are you worried about?”

Which is why I’m rather in favor of cutting carbon emissions. At this stage, I couldn’t care less if they cause climate change or not. I just want my oxygen a little less chunky, thx.

Smokestack lightning,

This is dF

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It's all that coal. And just think China isn't even completely ramped up yet. They can still build more factories and buy even more cars.