The rise of the air purifier industry
breathing in beijing: coping with china’s smog
by：Yovog
2023-09-25
BEIJING —
With Beijing\'s air pollution soaring to a seemingly new and scary record this weekend, how do we deal with the classic parenting dilemma of children?
I got a very obvious answer: put on a pollution mask and go for another air purifier.
This is what we did on Saturday, as the air quality index run by the US embassy in Beijing reached an eye-popping level, using the standards set by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
8 p down 755m.
As my colleague Edward Huang wrote.
The whole of Beijing looks like a smoking lounge at an airport, \"Ed wrote.
According to the index, anything above 300 is \"dangerous\" and anything above 500 is beyond the index.
This weekend, readings for 16 consecutive hours exceeded the index.
Even Chinese government monitors have recorded a terrible level of about 500, which has recently become more accurate, but still tend to measure less pollution than the embassy.
Angry, Chinese netizens wrote on their Weibo account that pollution caused the index to explode.
They found strong adjectives: \"Post-apocalyptic,\" \"Horror,\" and \"incredible,\" Ed wrote.
So, ironically, there\'s a sense of relief on Sunday as the index drops to 319 (
Still \"dangerous \")
Then down to 286: very unhealthy.
However, by Sunday afternoon, the price of 373 was \"dangerous\" again \".
Ordinary Chinese are shocked.
They say this more and more in public, as the state seems to be relaxing its coverage review of pollution that everyone can see and smell.
National Xinhua News Agency-
Running agency reported on January.
What the environmental department is releasing now is true.
Time air quality data from 74 cities in China, www. cnemc. cn.
Earlier on Sunday, CCTV warned on Weibo that the main air quality monitoring stations in eight urban areas will be around 500 kilometers, the sixth grade, and the PM 2 pollution is serious.
The main pollutants refer to fine particles and large particles.
Of course, the problem is not limited to Beijing.
This photo from NASA shows that most parts of eastern China are seriously polluted (
Beijing in the blue circle).
On Saturday, Beijing was even the top 10 on the list of the most polluted cities in China.
The honor was also received in Shijiazhuang and elsewhere.
People\'s Daily asked frankly on the internet --
Page spread, what\'s going on with our air? âx80x9d (
Easily cached here by Chinese culture, Beijing
Based on the newsletter. )
Frankly, the scale of the problem is overwhelming.
A very enlightening chart from the European Commission\'s Global Atmospheric Research emissions database Edgar estimates that China produced 9 in 2011.
7 million tons of carbon dioxide is almost double that of the United States.
42 million tons.
In fact, if China\'s cement industry is a country, it will be the sixth largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world, producing 820,000 tons of carbon dioxide in 2011. According to Edgar, the total amount of carbon dioxide emissions in Germany this year is slightly higher than 810,000 tons.
According to the chart, Germany is the sixth most polluted country in the world, the second in the United States and the first in China.
But there are other highlights here: China has more than one population.
3 billion about 4.
It\'s about five times as much as 0. 3 billion in the United States.
So even though it is ahead of the world in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, per capita pollution is still far lower than in the United States.
Unfortunately, this could change.
China\'s economy may surpass that of the United States. S.
At some point in the next ten or twenty years, we may face a very surprising problem.
On June, Ma, director of the China Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, told Hong Kong --
According to the South China Morning Post, \"our approach to development is not sustainable, and the total amount of pollution emissions in the region far exceeds the maximum ecological capacity, which is no longer a secret.
\"How can a family justify living in such a situation?
For most people in Chinese cities, there is no practical alternative to life under smog, although the harsh environment is the reason for most immigrants (
In a recent post, I noticed that the number of immigrants has been rising).
To control risk, we have family rules: air purifiers continue to operate over 100.
More than 200, we wear masks outdoors.
More than 300 m, no one is exercising or playing outside even with a mask.
More than 500, we try not to go out.
It\'s hard, especially for children.
So we breathe at home this weekend.
I saw a movie. Read. And talked.
Tell the children how their generation will clean up the environmental chaos caused by previous generations.
Watching them grow doubts on their faces when considering the stupidity of adults.
With Beijing\'s air pollution soaring to a seemingly new and scary record this weekend, how do we deal with the classic parenting dilemma of children?
I got a very obvious answer: put on a pollution mask and go for another air purifier.
This is what we did on Saturday, as the air quality index run by the US embassy in Beijing reached an eye-popping level, using the standards set by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
8 p down 755m.
As my colleague Edward Huang wrote.
The whole of Beijing looks like a smoking lounge at an airport, \"Ed wrote.
According to the index, anything above 300 is \"dangerous\" and anything above 500 is beyond the index.
This weekend, readings for 16 consecutive hours exceeded the index.
Even Chinese government monitors have recorded a terrible level of about 500, which has recently become more accurate, but still tend to measure less pollution than the embassy.
Angry, Chinese netizens wrote on their Weibo account that pollution caused the index to explode.
They found strong adjectives: \"Post-apocalyptic,\" \"Horror,\" and \"incredible,\" Ed wrote.
So, ironically, there\'s a sense of relief on Sunday as the index drops to 319 (
Still \"dangerous \")
Then down to 286: very unhealthy.
However, by Sunday afternoon, the price of 373 was \"dangerous\" again \".
Ordinary Chinese are shocked.
They say this more and more in public, as the state seems to be relaxing its coverage review of pollution that everyone can see and smell.
National Xinhua News Agency-
Running agency reported on January.
What the environmental department is releasing now is true.
Time air quality data from 74 cities in China, www. cnemc. cn.
Earlier on Sunday, CCTV warned on Weibo that the main air quality monitoring stations in eight urban areas will be around 500 kilometers, the sixth grade, and the PM 2 pollution is serious.
The main pollutants refer to fine particles and large particles.
Of course, the problem is not limited to Beijing.
This photo from NASA shows that most parts of eastern China are seriously polluted (
Beijing in the blue circle).
On Saturday, Beijing was even the top 10 on the list of the most polluted cities in China.
The honor was also received in Shijiazhuang and elsewhere.
People\'s Daily asked frankly on the internet --
Page spread, what\'s going on with our air? âx80x9d (
Easily cached here by Chinese culture, Beijing
Based on the newsletter. )
Frankly, the scale of the problem is overwhelming.
A very enlightening chart from the European Commission\'s Global Atmospheric Research emissions database Edgar estimates that China produced 9 in 2011.
7 million tons of carbon dioxide is almost double that of the United States.
42 million tons.
In fact, if China\'s cement industry is a country, it will be the sixth largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world, producing 820,000 tons of carbon dioxide in 2011. According to Edgar, the total amount of carbon dioxide emissions in Germany this year is slightly higher than 810,000 tons.
According to the chart, Germany is the sixth most polluted country in the world, the second in the United States and the first in China.
But there are other highlights here: China has more than one population.
3 billion about 4.
It\'s about five times as much as 0. 3 billion in the United States.
So even though it is ahead of the world in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, per capita pollution is still far lower than in the United States.
Unfortunately, this could change.
China\'s economy may surpass that of the United States. S.
At some point in the next ten or twenty years, we may face a very surprising problem.
On June, Ma, director of the China Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, told Hong Kong --
According to the South China Morning Post, \"our approach to development is not sustainable, and the total amount of pollution emissions in the region far exceeds the maximum ecological capacity, which is no longer a secret.
\"How can a family justify living in such a situation?
For most people in Chinese cities, there is no practical alternative to life under smog, although the harsh environment is the reason for most immigrants (
In a recent post, I noticed that the number of immigrants has been rising).
To control risk, we have family rules: air purifiers continue to operate over 100.
More than 200, we wear masks outdoors.
More than 300 m, no one is exercising or playing outside even with a mask.
More than 500, we try not to go out.
It\'s hard, especially for children.
So we breathe at home this weekend.
I saw a movie. Read. And talked.
Tell the children how their generation will clean up the environmental chaos caused by previous generations.
Watching them grow doubts on their faces when considering the stupidity of adults.
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