Yes, coal does care - you can even get a free asthma inhaler for your child! Because if it's on the internet, it has to be true...
Showing posts with label pollution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pollution. Show all posts
Friday, May 20, 2011
Coal Cares
Yes, coal does care - you can even get a free asthma inhaler for your child! Because if it's on the internet, it has to be true...
Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Key to Living a Life of Love, Peace, and Prosperity is to Live From Your Heart
To review and build a bit on the Chinglish theme that I've been posting about lately, there are many instances of pop culture here in China that I'm posting about because they are at turns unexpectedly poetic, delightful, weird, or even eerily haunting.
And then there's the stuff that's Just Plain Wrong:
(Yes, that's me, Mister "everything is culturally relevant" Dave, saying that...)
These bucolic scenes are from advertisements plastered onto the walls that surround one of the countless gated housing complexes that are springing up everywhere in the former farmland that surrounds our university.
The countryside nearby is equally surreal - vacant fields gone to seed, piles of rubble that I imagine were once farmhouses, and brand new roads that now lead nowhere. Below, some construction workers' laundry hung out to dry on improvised bamboo racks under a new power line.
Who gets to move into these new gated communities? Who gets left out?
When we search for the "Key to Living a Life of Love, Peace, and Prosperity," why do we so often come up with such misguided solutions?
And then there's the stuff that's Just Plain Wrong:
(Yes, that's me, Mister "everything is culturally relevant" Dave, saying that...)
These bucolic scenes are from advertisements plastered onto the walls that surround one of the countless gated housing complexes that are springing up everywhere in the former farmland that surrounds our university.
The countryside nearby is equally surreal - vacant fields gone to seed, piles of rubble that I imagine were once farmhouses, and brand new roads that now lead nowhere. Below, some construction workers' laundry hung out to dry on improvised bamboo racks under a new power line.
Who gets to move into these new gated communities? Who gets left out?
When we search for the "Key to Living a Life of Love, Peace, and Prosperity," why do we so often come up with such misguided solutions?
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
More on America's biggest export...
This satellite map of world particulate pollution confirms it: China is a pretty gritty place.
For those who haven't yet clicked the link, it's a map of the amount of microparticles present in the earth's atmosphere, as estimated by satellite data from NASA. That little dark brown blob in the center left of China? That's where we are - pretty much the flat part of Sichuan province, ringed by mountains so that the pollution stays around instead of going somewhere else.
Why so high? An abundance of coal, a lot of factories making stuff for Americans, and a whole lot of people that want an American standard of living. In the next decade or two, will China start farming out its pollution to other places in the world like we did? Or will the world run out of options?
For those who haven't yet clicked the link, it's a map of the amount of microparticles present in the earth's atmosphere, as estimated by satellite data from NASA. That little dark brown blob in the center left of China? That's where we are - pretty much the flat part of Sichuan province, ringed by mountains so that the pollution stays around instead of going somewhere else.
Why so high? An abundance of coal, a lot of factories making stuff for Americans, and a whole lot of people that want an American standard of living. In the next decade or two, will China start farming out its pollution to other places in the world like we did? Or will the world run out of options?
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