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Cattledog

(5,915 posts) Fri Jan 6, 2017, 06:17 PM Jan 2017

China pollution: 'It can be completely dark'

A look at life inside China's most polluted city. Shijiazhuang in northern China is currently underneath a thick layer of toxic smog.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38538419?ocid=socialflow_twitter

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China pollution: 'It can be completely dark' (Original Post) Cattledog Jan 2017 OP

This is as bad, possibly worse, than London's infamous "pea soup fog" of the 1800s. It's a killer... Hekate Jan 2017 #1

Hekate

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1. This is as bad, possibly worse, than London's infamous "pea soup fog" of the 1800s. It's a killer...

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Fri Jan 6, 2017, 06:22 PM

Jan 2017

...and not just in the future. Anyone with asthma or other lung diseases is at risk in the moment; children are at risk... As far as I know the causes are the same as in 19th century London: the Industrial Revolution and coal, now with the addition of internal combustion engines.

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