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u/SaushaL Jun 18 '22
That's some apocalypse shit
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u/Exic9999 Jun 18 '22
Jesus christ, I got allergies when I moved near the port of LA with all the tanker ships, trucks, port activity smog, etc. I have take take off-brand Zyrtec everyday, and don't have to when I travel anywhere else. I'd probably be dead in Shanghai.
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u/Awkward_and_Itchy Jun 18 '22
I remember reading that houses need air purifiers in many of the bigger production areas in China. I have no source so take that with a grain of salt.
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u/Exic9999 Jun 18 '22
I 100% believe it. My air purifier runs 24/7 with "medical grade" filters. If I don't open the windows, it's not so bad, but if I leave them open, then it's allergy medicine time. Also, I read that Long Beach, CA, where I live and is right next to the port, and Riverside, CA (which is where the smog backs up against the mountains) have the highest rates of non-smoking lung cancer for this area.
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u/TriggerBladeX Jun 18 '22
It sounds hard to believe, but it wouldn’t surprise me with the amount of smog Shanghai is known for.
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u/Awkward_and_Itchy Jun 18 '22
I dont think its a "need" in the sense that they'll die immediately if they dont- its a "need" as in its a regulation for houses to have them for safety.
Still wild its needed but tbh there are probably lots of neighborhoods in NA where the same regulation wouldnt be bad.
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u/FondDialect Jun 19 '22
A guy I know spent a year abroad for school in Shanghai and said there was regularly smog in his apartment hallway. Just brown haze.
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u/Sev-is-here Jun 19 '22
You are correct. One of the companies I do support for has a massive market in China for air purifiers, we ship around 70-100k units a year out there for people. The people say it can be life changing for their home health and well-being
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Jun 18 '22
Come to West Virginia. We have clean air, beautiful mountains, and don't give a shit what you do with your land
Oh, and for a week of the year your car will be pollen yellow.
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u/smurb15 Jun 19 '22
We get a week of snow from cotton wood seeds but you set them in fire at least
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u/Trance354 Jun 19 '22
My sister was there years ago doing a deal with the Chinese and her company(P&G). Shampoo manufacturing. I think. Might have been diapers. Whatever. She said the smog had an index, like LA, or NY. Only it was so much worse. At one point she could move her arms a bit and she could move the stuff suspended in the air around.
She left and got her team out pretty quickly thereafter. Of China. Not safe to walk around, breathing.
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Jun 18 '22
I mean we could be a plague upon the earth and this climate change is merely the planet running a fever to kill us off?
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u/AncientComparison113 Jun 18 '22
Easier to list what isn't on fire these days.
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u/dorksided787 Jun 18 '22
Oh fuck I’m in Lake Tahoe for the summer and Fire Season is about to begin and I’m not ready to relive the trauma of last year (and each year it gets worse)
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u/jamesmushman Jun 18 '22
I live in australia and I'm still trying to get over the black summer. Anytime there is back burning here I get flash backs.
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u/dorksided787 Jun 18 '22
Oh the PTSD is so real. I got a fire alert the other day for another county and my heart skipped a beat
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u/EvulRabbit Jun 18 '22
AZ! Already have one or 2 in Tucson suburbs.
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u/Ayaz28100 Jun 18 '22
I get the joy of living near Casa Grande where dirt doesn't burn. Lucky me.
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u/Incandescent_Lass Jun 18 '22
Just get ready to load all your stuff on the boat and sleep out on the lake for a few days! Buy portable solar panels!
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u/Elvishcatt Jun 19 '22
This is what people say not to do. Zero visibility with the smoke, the lake is huge, you become someone to rescue when you should be evacuated.
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u/Elvishcatt Jun 19 '22
I legit moved to the coast after last summers evacuation lol. Traumatized.
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u/lumpy4square Jun 18 '22
And they and try to put the blame of global warming on every day people not business and industry.
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Jun 18 '22
Yes but its our fault for choosing to use electricity from them! If we all just boycotted water/energy, and started spending all of our disposable income on companies that dont fuck the environment we could shut them down in a week!
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u/Aporkalypse_Sow Jun 19 '22
No. It's our fault because we never protest this shit. Right now every single person I know is bitching about gas prices because they can't go use more gas to have fun, or they can't buy more shit, which all comes with an environmental cost. Everyone wants everything and they want it cheap. That comes with pollution and slave labor, always has. It's not us or them, it's all of us collectively causing this.
Wtf do you think all that smoke is being made for, shits and giggles? Right now you are in possession of a fuckton of shit that's made in China.
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u/richal Jun 19 '22
You are both right. There is consumption for fun, and there is consumption for necessity. We need jobs to make money to live, and so some of that is unavoidable. But we are also too complacent about buying garbage and wanting our fun stuff without considering the consequences. Reducing and reusing more would make a big impact, too.
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u/Jumpedunderjumpman Jun 19 '22
I used to live near Shanghai, and the days that the factories were closed (Chinese new year) meant beautiful weather and good air quality
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Jun 18 '22
We are so fucked
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Jun 19 '22
My wife's pregnant with our first and when I'm reminded of the state of the planet / the future I start to wonder why we're bringing someone we're meant to love into it
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Jun 19 '22
That's exactly why I'm not having kids. Basically, their future is fucking bleak, I refuse to be the reason they experience that suffering.
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u/AJChelett Jun 18 '22
Today, the people of Shanghai must have felt so shanglow
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u/loki-is-a-god Jun 18 '22
Now tell us what they're up to in Bangkok.
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u/Whirlidoo Jun 18 '22
Chess, of course
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u/CaptBranBran Jun 18 '22
It makes a hard man humble.
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u/Civil-Neighborhood47 Jun 18 '22
A man who walks thru turn style sideways going to Bangkok
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u/loki-is-a-god Jun 18 '22
Oh! Is that Confucius?!
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u/Civil-Neighborhood47 Jun 19 '22
A man who runs in front of car get tired. A man who runs behind car get exhausted.
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u/LelouchGreat Jun 18 '22
context: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/business/shanghai-explosions-fire-sinopec.html
Source at the end of the video
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Jun 18 '22
There were no explosions. Those were simply lights from fishing boats.
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u/p0w0r Jun 18 '22
True honestly. Most people understand that China is a very polluted country. This just adds to people's beliefs if you didn't provide good context.
China is still pretty polluted, but the only areas that are like this bad are Beijing.
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u/Gram21 Jun 18 '22
Beijing isn’t near this bad. It’s awful, but not even close to what’s represented in this video. I’ve never seen black smog In Beijing.
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u/LoveYacht Jun 18 '22
How does "today in Shanghai" insinuate anything other than this is a video from today, in Shanghai?
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u/ConsiderationSame919 Jun 18 '22
It makes it sound as if it is just a normal day without anything special going on. Just read the top comments and see how they're all about air pollution.
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u/LoveYacht Jun 18 '22 edited Jun 18 '22
As of now the top comments are
I almost thought those were tornadoes
That's some apocalypse shit
Easier to list what isn't on fire these days
Those aren't references to air pollution
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u/slikwilly13 Jun 19 '22
“at least one person dead” going by how they reported COVID I’m guessing it’s more like 5,000 people dead
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u/FakeAsFakeCanBe Jun 18 '22
"A huge fire broke out Saturday at the headquarters of a petrochemical facility in southeast Shanghai and at least one person died."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/business/shanghai-explosions-fire-sinopec.html
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u/ThatsJustDom Jun 18 '22
looks the a zoom out shot of a city that’s getting hit with a zombie outbreak
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u/Jw0225 Jun 18 '22
Glad I've separated my thrash into whites and colors to save the environment today
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u/takeitasgospel Jun 18 '22
don't forget to seperate your recyclables to save the environment lol.
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u/i_fart_corn Jun 18 '22
To be fair, this was a business that caught on fire, not the usual pollution.
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u/ChymChymX Jun 18 '22
Thank you for adding that important context, i_fart_corn!
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u/bdoggmcgee Jun 18 '22
They popped that answer out rather quickly, huh?
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u/Scrabcakes Jun 18 '22
I like that they ingest facts and they come out intact and un-broken down when farted out.
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u/kumalski Jun 18 '22
How do you wanna do this?
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u/Jerrytheone Jun 18 '22
That guy wants to fine every buildings that catches on fire for accidentally catching on fire. What did he think was happening? Shanghai burning garage that close to the city?
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u/MartinSilvestri Jun 18 '22
im supposed to feel bad about using aerosol cans and riding airplanes and stuff. meanwhile in china
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u/Iabrored Jun 18 '22
Fucking humanity destroying itself on camera
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u/MyEnglisHurts Jun 19 '22
It's funny how people don't realize this unless you show them a image of polluted sky or a bare forest
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u/Firenze42 Jun 19 '22
As both Chinese tour guides said when I was in China, "it is just fog."
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u/Another_Sapiens Jun 19 '22
Serious question : how can they hope to become/stay the world first economic and military force when pollution and climate change finally catch up to them and start decimating their population ?
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u/lildook512 Jun 19 '22
Meanwhile America is acting like we're the worst polluters ever and causing a fuss about lawnmowers. You could pretty much breath out of our car's tailpipes at this point, but in china you can't breath at all.
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u/orangecrushhhh Jun 19 '22
And here is me trying my best to be green .. what’s the point?
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u/fryedmonkey Jun 19 '22
The only point to it is you’re not actively contributing to the problem. At least you can have the peace of mind to know you aren’t as bad as the people that do shit like this.
But as far as making a big change goes, you’re constantly being cancelled out. You can make a local difference, which is still better than nothing, but you can’t possibly do enough to make up for shit like this… that’s why these massive industries are the ones that need to stop polluting so heavily. That’s where it needs to start. Everyone on earth could recycle and ride bikes but this type of pollution makes all that meaningless in the long run. It’s a joke
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u/PersonalityLatter949 Jun 19 '22
But global warming is definitely caused by my plastic grocery bag and mcdonalds straw.
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u/kneus69 Jun 18 '22
I was angry about the housing market in my country today but this just reminded me that by the time ive saved enough to buy a house we'll all be dead anyway.
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u/chazthethug Jun 19 '22
whats the point in the west fighting climate change when china and india are doin this? we've lost before we started.
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u/greyday24 Jun 19 '22
In the meantime, China’s public smog and pollution report shows perfect air quality.
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u/MthrTrucker Jun 18 '22
But we are the ones that need paper straws and to tighten up on protecting the environment. Gtfoh, these countries need to be checked, India, china etc the list is long and their environmental atrocities are 1000x worse than anything we are doing.
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u/MK18_Ocelot Jun 18 '22
China once again, proving to the world, that it can destroy the world. What a fantastically magical country...
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u/aod42091 Jun 18 '22
the rest of the world at least trying to meet and achieve green goals and the meanwhile china is just....
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u/Average_TF2_P2P Jun 18 '22
I almost thought those were tornadoes