the pollution thread
May 26, 2011 | 7:06 pm
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May 26, 2011 | 10:53 pm
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Go high, go west, and go out of the city. Yes, Lhasa is clean. Sanya (though I haven't been there myself) is not.
May 27, 2011 | 6:43 am
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The streets of Dalian are very clean. Almost like a different country compared to elsewhere on the mainland. Air is still polluted, though nothing like Beijing / Linfen / Shijiazhuang or any of the countless coal dust choked mining towns in the hinterlands.
May 27, 2011 | 7:52 pm
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I have never thought of Chinese major cities as all that dirty (street dirty), by Asian developing country standards. In Shanghai the other day, I was just thinking to myself how clean everything was. I suppose it is all relative to what you have seen and experienced before in other places.
Compare Japan to China and you'll get one view. Compare India to China and it's a different perspective.
Compare Japan to China and you'll get one view. Compare India to China and it's a different perspective.
May 27, 2011 | 8:09 pm
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Granted you won't see trash blowing around on the streets. Like Tijuana.
But what's up with cleaning walls? Interior and exterior walls.
Get out some high pressure steam washers and clean the outside of the
buildings and wipe down all the black marks on inside walls, especially in
stairwells and landings.
But what's up with cleaning walls? Interior and exterior walls.
Get out some high pressure steam washers and clean the outside of the
buildings and wipe down all the black marks on inside walls, especially in
stairwells and landings.
May 28, 2011 | 2:05 am
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Better yet, when you build your next sky scraper, consider using construction materials that don't suck in the dirty air. My best friend's pad in SH is only about 12 years old, but from the looks of it, you would swear it was built in the 1940s
Jun 1, 2011 | 11:56 am
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I have never thought of Chinese major cities as all that dirty (street dirty), by Asian developing country standards. In Shanghai the other day, I was just thinking to myself how clean everything was. I suppose it is all relative to what you have seen and experienced before in other places.
Compare Japan to China and you'll get one view. Compare India to China and it's a different perspective.
Compare Japan to China and you'll get one view. Compare India to China and it's a different perspective.
Much safer too. I do miss the cleanliness of my Michigan upbringing though, and I miss fresh air...
Was nice when the Expo was on and they forced the factories to turn off.
Jun 2, 2011 | 3:39 am
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