Beijing fails to achieve target
Recently, the Beijing pollution monitoring stations recorded “level five” pollution in the city. “This is as bad as it can get,” the spokeswoman for the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau said. This is happening when the Chinese authorities are striving hard to prove that their city is conducive enough to host the most prestigious global event.
The 2008 Olympic Games are just round the corner,
high pollution level in the city is neither politically correct nor is it in the true spirit of gamesmanship. It is politically incorrect because of the increased global concerns about the climate change and the adverse impact that the unprecedented development in China is having on this particular front. Both the United Nations and the World Bank have rated air quality in Beijing among the worst in the world. The main reasons behind these exceptionally high levels are extensive coal burning & enhanced plying of cars in the city. “China offers the greatest conundrum of our time. China’s rapid modernisation over the last three decades has brought millions out of poverty, but has left China with 16 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities.
China has become the world’s factory, so the responsibility for the problem does not rest on their shoulders alone,” Anna Clark, President, EarthPeople, LLC, a Dallas based consulting firm told B&E. Although, the head of the government’s information office, Cai Wu, assures that Beijing’s environment was improving and the world should have “full confidence” that the Olympics would be pollution free. But the facts on ground clearly suggest that the world-class sportspersons will have to compete against thick fog, mist and breathe the Beijing air, which is fully loaded with pollutants, in their pursuit for victory. And the Chinese citizens would have to silently inhale the polluted air and bear its brunt on their long-term health.
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Recently, the Beijing pollution monitoring stations recorded “level five” pollution in the city. “This is as bad as it can get,” the spokeswoman for the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau said. This is happening when the Chinese authorities are striving hard to prove that their city is conducive enough to host the most prestigious global event.
The 2008 Olympic Games are just round the corner,
high pollution level in the city is neither politically correct nor is it in the true spirit of gamesmanship. It is politically incorrect because of the increased global concerns about the climate change and the adverse impact that the unprecedented development in China is having on this particular front. Both the United Nations and the World Bank have rated air quality in Beijing among the worst in the world. The main reasons behind these exceptionally high levels are extensive coal burning & enhanced plying of cars in the city. “China offers the greatest conundrum of our time. China’s rapid modernisation over the last three decades has brought millions out of poverty, but has left China with 16 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities.China has become the world’s factory, so the responsibility for the problem does not rest on their shoulders alone,” Anna Clark, President, EarthPeople, LLC, a Dallas based consulting firm told B&E. Although, the head of the government’s information office, Cai Wu, assures that Beijing’s environment was improving and the world should have “full confidence” that the Olympics would be pollution free. But the facts on ground clearly suggest that the world-class sportspersons will have to compete against thick fog, mist and breathe the Beijing air, which is fully loaded with pollutants, in their pursuit for victory. And the Chinese citizens would have to silently inhale the polluted air and bear its brunt on their long-term health.
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