Posts tagged “pollution”

The Easyway to quit Beijing

From The Economist’s “Mapping the invisible scourge“: Berkeley Earthโ€™s scientific director, Richard Muller, says breathing Beijingโ€™s air is the equivalent of smoking almost 40 cigarettes a day and calculates that air pollution causes 1.6m deaths a year in China, or 17% of the total. Um, holy crap.