Astonishing satellite image shows China covered with pollution

[onehandle]

The smog situation in China is getting even worse, with pollution levels as high as 30 times the limits set by the World Health Organization. Check out this image taken in late December, 2013 by NASA's Terra satellite. You can't barely see anything because of the crap floating in the air. It gets even worse at full size:



http://sploid.gizmodo.com/astonishing-satellite-image-shows-china-covered-with-po-1495533332

[BobUp]

1. Thanks for

America having the EPA. If we didn't, we probably be experiencing the same thing, and republicons want to repeal the EPA.

[onehandle]

3. Thanks to Richard Nixon, the last 'liberal' President. nt

[BobUp]

4. Arguable

but I'm too tired today.

I would say thanks to people who became tired of breathing in pollutants from factories, and people who got tired of drinking polluted water, darned "tree huggers"

and a special thanks to Senator Henry M. Jackson (D)
Senator Henry M. Jackson proposed and helped write S 1075, the bill that eventually became the National Environmental Policy Act. The law was signed by President Nixon on January 1, 1970.

darned democrats.

[NickB79]

5. Unfortunately, due to globalization, we just exported our pollution

Factories closed in the US due to new regulations, and re-opened in China instead. Without an effective environmental regulation system, the new factories were MORE polluting than the old ones.

End result: massive quantities of pollution still being churned out, just not in our backyards.

It all seemed OK for a while, until we realized that even from halfway across the planet, that pollution could still hurt us through mercury pollution and global warming.

[BobUp]

7. But we love cheap Chinese junk.

and tainted foods.

[arcane1]

8. Exactly. We're as responsible for that toxic cloud as China is n/t

[The Straight Story]

2. If they ban smoking in bars that should fix it

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. No, this is what happens when you force all the smokers outside!

[dembotoz]

9. child of the cold war and perhaps too many spy movies

but i do hope our cia satellites can see thru this muck

[L0oniX]

10. See what too much woo does. Stop the woo NOW!