Found: 1 blanket of smog, thick, gray and persistent. Stinks. Owner please collect from all over Beijing ASAP.
Lost: visibility, 15% of lung capacity and inclination to step outside. Much missed, of great sentimental value.
It’s been like this for days now. I’d like it to stop.
Update: Somebody must have been listening – the picture with the blue is the same view as the first, just 18 hours later. This also made The Guardian
“The government should take further measures to prevent pollution at the source,” Xinhua news agency quoted a Beijing environmental official, Shi Hanmin, as saying this week
As always, you can quote on Xinhua to quote an official stating the officially bleeding obvious.
What worries me is – where did it all go? I’ve got a worrying feeling it’s been filtered through the lungs of the good folk of Beijing . . .
Sharp eyes,I didn’t find Beijing is smog until the last day…
Comment by songli — 10/12/2004 @ 8:36 pm