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Residents of this city woke on Wednesday to a third day of thick gray smog which has disrupted dozens of flights and train services and caused a rash of health complaints. As Reuters reports, the toxic levels of pollution, fuelled by industrial growth a surge in the numbers of vehicles crowding their roads, are more than 7x what the nation deems safe and what the US EPA calls "hazardous". But it's not in China...
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Yes, wlecome to our Ignoramus Americanus, all mouth, no brains. Please enjoy. Indeed Delhi is just a goobermint center, though the traffic exhaust I'm sure gets mixed in with what we call tule fog here in California.
Speaking of which, your countrypeople here in Silicon Valley are presently enjoying very bad air quality over the past week, remarkable given that the Bay Area air is usually cleaned by the ocean offshore.
Also contributing to the bad air quality, says the SJ Mercury, "the fire that burned piles of appliances at Sims Metal Recycling in Redwood City and the Pfeiffer Fire in Big Sur brought more haze across Monterey Bay and into the Bay Area.
Proximity to those fires helped give San Jose a reading of 94 micrograms per cubic meter for particle pollution at noon Tuesday; the federal health standard is 35. Oakland peaked at 68 and San Francisco peaked at 70.
But, in general, air quality in the area has improved over the decades due to anti-pollution measure, according to the Mercury.
Yeah, 20-25 miles south of Redwood CIty, I could smell that shit all day long. It was nasty. Just don't exercise...
Jim Rodgers advises you move to China.
This is going to help us evolve. People who don't understand that are either ignorant or deceiving themseves. Onward to a better and brighter future.
More cell phones than toilets, wtf.
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions.html
Haha, nothing compared to Dhaka.
Holy Cow! Hey, this is NOT a problem for me or an over-populated planet: Death from respiratory illnesses takes out the old and the weak.
New form of "population control". Life's tough, then we die.
p.s. And unto all you bleeding-heart Liberals, I say: 1. Darwin rules, and 2. "FOAD!"
This is what happens when you spray the skies with chemtrails, you block sun, but you trap everything else...perhaps the global dimming agenda should be reconsidered.
Smog is bullish for Platinum and Palladium investors (more demand for catalytic converters).
Indeed; I have been concentrating on Palladium for tha last 6 mos.
LC, I played that market for a few years and was lucky to get out ahead. It's been a sideways market for years now. I got in at $470 an ounce after $50 premiums and got out at $700 an ounce minus $50 dollar for premiums. Not only that, you have to find a buyer who actually knows what palladium is and that is easier said than done. I played on the fact that Russia might shut off the supply until I realized that the Russia vs the World meme was nothing but kabuki theatre. Business capex for cleaner emissions? Forget it. I like the PGMs but I would not go balls deep on them.
Looks like it'd be good for the heart, liver and lungs.
Wish I had the air filter contract for that city.
Mooooolah!
Smog in Delhi and Shanghai. Radioactivity in Tokyo. Brain farts in Washington DC. All deadly to morons and other living beings.
Looks like L.A. during it's heyday in the '70s...
Seeing the pictures of the smokestacks shows you where "Things are being made". In a world where every endeavor is scaled up for economy of scale, centralized, monopolized. One big plant instead of many small ones scattered over the country.
(I personally watched the company I worked for from '90-'99 close 8 US plants and make two big ones in China and Hungry)
When someone mentions the term "LOCAL" don't just think food/farming. We need to have many small plants (Efficient ones) supplying just that region. Many LOCAL jobs. Instead of 10 colossal scale somewhere in the far east. and stuff shipped to a million places.
THIS IS A PICTURE OF GLOBALIZATION.
And the fruits there of in addition to the "Low Price" you pay.
P.S. Also, LOCAL = RESILIENT