U.N. Reports Pollution Threat in Asia
Published: November 13, 2009
Summary: Soot, smog and toxic chemicals are blotting out the sun, harming the lungs of millions of people and altering weather patterns in large parts of Asia, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations. Chinese cities and leading to decreased crop yields in swaths of rural India. The brownish haze, sometimes in a layer more than a mile thick and clearly visible from airplanes, stretches from the Arabian Peninsula to the Yellow Sea. In the spring, it sweeps past North and South Korea and Japan. Sometimes the cloud drifts as far east as California.
Response: That is completely disgusting. How could you stand to live in a place like that and let it go on and get worse and worse. People are destroying this planet and don't even care.
Summary: Soot, smog and toxic chemicals are blotting out the sun, harming the lungs of millions of people and altering weather patterns in large parts of Asia, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations. Chinese cities and leading to decreased crop yields in swaths of rural India. The brownish haze, sometimes in a layer more than a mile thick and clearly visible from airplanes, stretches from the Arabian Peninsula to the Yellow Sea. In the spring, it sweeps past North and South Korea and Japan. Sometimes the cloud drifts as far east as California.
Response: That is completely disgusting. How could you stand to live in a place like that and let it go on and get worse and worse. People are destroying this planet and don't even care.
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