The city of Beijing has been generating the kinds of headlines that cities usually want no part of. Ahead of the Olympic games, many athletes have been publicly deriding the city's air quality, and rightly so. According to the World Health Organization, the current air pollution in Beijing is at least two to three times higher than levels deemed safe. City officials have been doing what they can with the limited resources and time that is available to them, but Detroit News writer John McCormick, on assignment covering the Beijing Motor Show, reports that there is a long way to go before things are truly cleaned up.[Source: The Detroit News]
1. This is actually good news (well, not for the athletes and people that are there). The bad publicity that will occur against Chinas environmental policies and current situations will really make people stand up and notice all over the world. It will be very interesting to see what is covered and what develops (and I'm not talking about the increased asthma and cancer rates!)
Posted at 12:59AM on Apr 24th 2008 by Geoff de Ruiter