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To: Theo

Does anyone here travel to China regularly? Is that pollution, or is it fog?? If it’s pollution, I’m surprised people can live in that trash.


11 posted on 07/30/2008 10:10:19 AM PDT by fishtank (FIRST defeat Imam Mahdi Obama. - THEN resist McCain. -- A good plan.)
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To: fishtank

Shanghai is even worse. Sometimes we couldn’t see the tops of the many highrise buildings.


14 posted on 07/30/2008 10:13:06 AM PDT by Jackson57
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To: fishtank

Definitely pollution! I’m all for athletes wearing masks, whether it embarrasses the Chinese government or not. Some of the national Olympic committees have asked their athletes not to wear masks - they have got to be kidding!

On my first visit to China in 1979, when there were few cars or trucks on the road, pollution was terrible in winter due to the use of high-sulfur coal at power plants. Now it’s a hundred times worse. Add to that the dust and sand blowing in from the Gobi desert and you have a real environmental mess. I wore a mask even back then.


17 posted on 07/30/2008 10:22:44 AM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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