As a postscript to that (uncharacteristically) upbeat last post, I should just point out that the weather control johnnies appear to have scrambled the controls on their miracle machine almost immediately.
Sunday morning was just heavenly...... but by lunchtime, a hazy overcast was building up, by mid-afternoon it was positively dingy, and by early evening it was threatening rain.
Today was fairly sunny again, but with much more haze, and the air quality has clearly taken a rapid nosedive. I imagine that many of those factories that have been closed for the last 2 or 3 weeks (at enormous cost to national productivity) will have been fired up into overtime working again even as the last marathoners were finishing.
You think the authorities are really going to go to that much trouble to clean up the air for the Paralympics? I severely doubt it. There might be a lighter version of the recent regime in place while the competitions are actually on, but in the interim, I think, it's going to be business (and pollution) as usual here in Beijing.
No comments:
Post a Comment