Nine Pollution Picture Perfect Days In Beijing

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2013 00:26 -0400

Reuters

While one night in Bangkok is enough for most, the following images (via Reuters) taken over nine days in Tiananmen Square, Beijing should highlight just how appalling the smog situation is in that country. As we discussed recently, this is more than a major problem for health, the reforms that the government proclaims means significant shifts in the economy (to say nothing of the increasing appeals for clean water and purchased clean air).

Click image for interactive version at Reuters...

Day 1 - March 6th

Day 2 - March 7th

Day 3 - March 8th

Day 4 - Macrh 9th

Day 5 - March 10th

Day 6 - March 11th (misdated)

Day 7 - March 12th

Day 8 - March 13th

Day 9 - March 14th

Two out of nine ain't bad!

Source: Reuters

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Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:29 | 3355726 Money Squid

Its only pollution if you live there

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:52 | 3355777 tickhound

Plus corporate profits are at all time highs anyways... haven't you bitchez seen the Dow Jones?

What this pollution needs is more growth. Growth is the fix. If you REALLY want to put this whole thing back together growth is the answer. What we need are politicians, from either side of the aisle, to come together and figure out a looooooooong term plan for consistent growth.... put aside their differences, and GROW our way out of this...

The quickest way to job growth is to make more stuff with shorter life-spans and provide these services and products to all people through government subsidy and heavy taxes on the 5 corporations left who will make everything.

What you see here isn't pollution. It's progress. These are proud to be human moments caught on film.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:55 | 3355784 akak

Bernanke? Krugman?

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 01:33 | 3355839 tickhound

No, I'm that thought many here refuse to face. The fix won't come from within the system. The problems are bigger than sound "money." Writing your congressman won't solve anything.

AS IF Maxine Waters "Mr. Bernanke told me low interest rates are so po people have access......." is gonna help you.

What you see in these pictures is Profit at ANY cost regardless of consequence. That's it. Otherwise it wouldn't look like that.

Say this in your head bitchez while you bitch about clean water...

"Product Sustainability is INVERSE to Economic Growth"

say that again...

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 01:48 | 3355867 Element

+1 Free barbiturates will solve a lot of issues.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 02:41 | 3355941 fourchan

slaves dont need fresh air.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 08:39 | 3356360 old naughty

Or they pay to get a can of "clean" (read: nothin) air.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 09:29 | 3356605 hedgeless_horseman

I know of no way to convey the glue smell of the Chinese hotel rooms built in the early 2000s. One must experience it.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 09:43 | 3356667 Pool Shark

Oh, I don't know...

I think China is lovely. I can think of nothing more serene than the sight of a lazy river with dead pigs floating by...

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 10:09 | 3356813 Stuck on Zero

Capitalist pigs.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 04:49 | 3356061 TheFourthStooge-ing

Free barbiturates will solve a lot of issues.

+Tuinal

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 07:37 | 3356172 NoDebt

The just haven't gotten the smoke vs. mirrors ratio quite right yet.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 10:42 | 3357021 Panafrican Funk...

"Product Sustainability is INVERSE to Economic Growth"

Worth repeating as many times as needed to accomplish a permanent imprint.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 04:17 | 3356038 StychoKiller

Oh, oh, and raising the debt ceiling! That should fix some spending and junk...

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 05:45 | 3356079 verum quod lies

Other see pollution, Charlie sees one word: 'winning!'

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 07:34 | 3356164 sunnydays

They grow the pollution in the U.S. with all the chemtrails. Our cities look the same and our skies are definitely polluted due to all the chemtrails they spray. They produce lots of jobs for pilots to poison the air.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 11:17 | 3357177 prains

+ 100 tickhound the sarc on that was pure

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:52 | 3355778 Ahmeexnal

How about a tour beneath T'square. Rumor has it the chinese massive gold hoard is right there.

Time to trot out the last emperor and have him tour the vaults. Or have a mummified Mao Zedong stroll past them tungsten bars.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 01:09 | 3355811 Hal n back

hmm-ever fly into LA?

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 04:16 | 3356032 Lore

My thought as well. The air in Beijing doesn't bother me as much as LA. One is a kind of sweet smell from outdated coal plants; the other is the plain old rotten smog we grew up with. There's a program to decommission or upgrade a bunch of the old plants, status unknown.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 05:51 | 3356080 granolageek

I was in Pittsburgh before there was an EPA. Sulfur dioxide does not smell sweet.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 11:19 | 3357193 Milestones

When I traveled to Beijng 10 years ago I was invited into private homes. What they were burning for heat and cooking was compressed coal dust. What yummie smoke came out of that dust. Milestones

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 08:45 | 3356370 yabyum

Worst air in the USA is Salt lake city, and the Wasatch front. LA got nothing on us.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 11:48 | 3357378 BooMushroom

But you don't have to worry getting attacked while walking down the street. So there's that.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 17:16 | 3359305 phyuckyiu

DASSS RAYCISSSS D000000D. Da truuuf hoits.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 09:18 | 3356555 BobPaulson

Yes. Beijing is worse. It smells of the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons (in LA the gross thing is how much of the pollution is aerosol beef grease - seriously, look it up yourself). I remember that smell growing up before catalytic converters. In the national museum in the square there you can even see the opacity of the air looking across the main entrance hall.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 13:56 | 3358139 Lore

Wow. When were you there? Must have been many years ago.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 09:51 | 3356707 SilverDOG

Money Squid,

We all live in this microcosm called Earth you f&*^% retard.

Go back to your other planet.

We ALL breathe Chinese pollution.

Japanese Fukashima radiation as well.

Denial is so cowardly.

COWARD.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 10:50 | 3357057 QE?

The solution to pollution is dilution!

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:30 | 3355727 palmereldritch

Hu farted

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:53 | 3355779 Skateboarder

Po Lu Shun, and he has stinky car farts.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 02:13 | 3355905 Peter Pan

Hu Flung Dung

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 02:53 | 3355947 A Nanny Moose

Hung So Lo did it.

I thought One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 08:40 | 3356361 DblAjent

It was Moo Goo Gai Mahn (he's half Jamaican)

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:30 | 3355729 maskone909

Couldnt it be possible its just weather?

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:33 | 3355736 Leto II

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 10:58 | 3357095 tarsubil

Well, you would know. Know any single fish dancers?

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:39 | 3355757 Frank N. Beans

chance of smog Tuesday through next year.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 09:47 | 3356691 Georgiabelle

No, it's smog. My daughter went to Beijing as a student ambassador in 2004 and all the pictures she took look like they were shot with a yellow-gray filter over the lens. She said the air looked, smelled and tasted awful. The only time the air is clean in Beijing is when a strong wind is blowing the pollution somewhere else.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 11:51 | 3357395 BooMushroom

No, it's CLIMATE.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:31 | 3355733 Money Squid

The flag died on day 2.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:35 | 3355741 1C3-N1N3