THE AIR QUALITY in beijing china has become so bad that you have to wear a gas mask to go outside, people, all twenty million of them, are being told to stay inside, the american embassy is flying in bottled air for its employees, and you can't see buildings more than a hundred yards away, the air is so black.
the perfect storm of air pollution has taken place, wind currents. rain patterns, temperature....to produce a horrendous air pollution emergency, and let it be a warning to us all. it can, and will happen again, more and more frequently, unless the chinese, and other third world nations, change their plan to make themselves as wealthy as the united states.
i remember forty three years ago when lake eerie caught on fire. it seemed pretty wild at the time, and even more so now. the united states has done a good job cleaning itself up, reversing pollution, through enforced regulations. In america, a sweeping economic and industrial revolution of green technology is about to unleash, despite the strenuous opposition of american conservatives.
in order for china to achieve the per capita prosperity, or the total industrial out put of a european country or the united states, their rapid industrialization will have to continue, but it will have to become green in a hurry, or it will destroy china, and the rest of the world with it.
Its time for governments in china, russia, and the united states to invest in and pursue solar energy, green energy, like the germans are doing. several times last year, germany spent an entire day with over half its electricity deriving from solar energy, and they plan to do even more this year. Germany is leading the way into an environmentally sustainable future.
If the other countries, including india, pakistan, and latin america join the other countries in following germany's lead, we may survive yet. right now, its still up in the air, though.
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