Is Healthy Air Bad?

Nice China bashing. It will fall back on your own head.

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When the air is polluted, you are damned. When the air is cleaner, you are equally damned.

If a writer decides to slant a clouded view for the purpose of gaining an advantage, or utilizes someone???s dubious and inconclusive research to support a shabby argument to support a point, let it be, for he/she has every right to voice an opinion (no matter how preposterous it may be). Such prejudice can simply be annoying if not nauseating.

Comments based on historical or factual evidence are beneficial to the readers. Otherwise, they are hollow or at best shallow talks. Writers, please take note.

This ridiculous article is another solid evidence of what BBC realy mean:
BIASED BROADCASTING COMPANY!

anje kopitar @ 08/07/2008 11:32:45 PM

Comment: I Went to Beijing and Shanghai last November for 3 weeks and had bronchitis for a month after .I came back .

-- That only means you have a very fragile lung, for which you should blame your parent!

jamie: You need to get your jammed mind fixed first, I know that won't happen overnight!
You got such wierd, self contradictory ideas in that mind, Pity for you, my friend!
Maybe you should come for the Paralympics...

jamie: You need to get your jammed mind fixed first, I know that won't happen overnight!

They have been working hard to improve things in the country. There will no be any 8 year quick fix just as much as there will never be an overnight fix. Lets show these people some respect so that they walk away from this thing with dignity and an actual feeling of international responsibility.

Ask anyone with asthma how they feel about air pollution and I think you will find that we know it lessens our quality of life, costs us in doctor visits and medication, and takes away years from our lives.

I lived near an oil refinery and it destroyed my once healthy lungs. My health was excellent, I hiked, kayaked, and was in top physical shape before I moved to the central coast of California. Within 5 short years, I could barely go a few steps around my block.

My life revolves around the air quality. Try finding a place to live that has "healthy air" where there are jobs and affordable housing. I'm not wealthy, so I can't afford to live on the beach--even there, in some areas, doesn't have healthy air.

There will come a time very soon when those of us with lung problems will be asking; "WHERE do we go now?"

Jamie Reno seems to not know that global warming has stopped, at least for now. There has been no net warming in the 21st century and temperatures have dropped so much in the past couple of years that essentially all of the warming of the 20th century has been erased. So, if reducing real air pollution means the cooling is slowed down or warming re-starts again, it still sounds like a good trade off.

Jamie Reno seems to not know that global warming has stopped, at least for now. There has been no net warming in the 21st century and temperatures have dropped so much in the past couple of years that essentially all of the warming of the 20th century has been erased. So, if reducing real air pollution means the cooling is slowed down or warming re-starts again, it still sounds like a good trade off.

I Went to Beijing and Shanghai last November for 3 weeks and had bronchitis for a month after .I came back .
the pollution there is the real deal as my lungs can attest .

China indeed has a serious problem of pollution due to decades of accumulation, but at the same time China has realized the problem and are making every efforts to get it solved.