According to Matthew Hilburn on his article, “Pollution in
China Goes Off the Charts” states that the air condition in China is so
polluted and hazardous that when being measured by the Environmental Protection
Agency it is off the charts. The air condition in China is so hazardous that
the elderly and children have to be kept indoors while the healthy people are
recommended not to do any physical exercise. According to John Walke, the director of the
Climate & Clean Air program who explained about how the Environmental
Protection Agency measures air quality in the U.S. from 0-500 and what the six
different colors are. If the air quality is good then it is coded in the color green
and measures up to 50. If the air quality is hazardous then it is coded in the
color maroon and measures past 300. Hilburn also stated that the air pollution
in China measured up to 517 on Tuesday which are considered beyond index while
the U.S. Embassy in Beijing reported a measurement of 755 in the air pollution
earlier this month. Dominic Meagher, an economist told Hilburn about how there
was a furniture factory in the Zheijiang province that caught on fire and was
not noticed until three hours later because of the smog in the air. Hilburn
also stated that the Chinese government has shut down over 100 polluting factories
and removing a third of government vehicles off the road but the pollution had
still remained at dangerous levels.
I can hardly believe that pollution can be taken to stages
where the conditions can get so bad to where living can be hard. After reading
this article about China, it’s good to show that air pollution can be taken to
stages that are so hazardous to where the elderly and the children are forced
to stay inside and that healthy people are recommended to not do any physical
activity in these kinds of conditions. It is also good to show that air pollution
can be so bad that it cannot be distinguish from smoke from a fire to just
being the air.
9:58 PM
1/30/2013
Charles Vang
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