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Take off from Australia, land in China
Oct 19, 2017 1:40 AM
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Dyslexicbirch
I herf Chinas planing on making every car electric to reduce smog
KittyPuncher
China's also stopping gas car sales in 5 years.
drasparagus
"Colorized 2017 Passenger Jet Wing"
Wizardstickz
Ewww
crcinau
When I worked at Melbourne Airport, we called the trails that stain the side of the plane 'tears of china'.. Black soot marks everywhere.
pilotperson
The Chinese airports always report weather as, for example, "visibility 800 metres in mist", and we often go, "pfft, right, 'mist'."
YourFriendlyNeighbourhoodEcologist
When we landed in Guangzhou international, it was surprised you couldn't see anything beyond the airport. Soooo much smog.
DeviatedPrevert
so australia doesnt have any industrial regions?
boobcat
Australia is one of the worst polluters. Mining is the main Industry..COAL mining. They open new coal powerstations
Smurfles
We do but not on the scale of China. A lot of our industrial areas have been closed for the most part and shipped offshore.
MindOfMobius
environmental regulations, do they work? tune in next week to find out last century.
barnwolf
Isn't China more aggressive about global warming regulation than the US? One bad city does not make a country.
DoglessProps
China had made massive steps forward, but still has a way to go. I've flown into Beijing with clear skys - this looks like fog to me.
DoglessProps
That bring said, they do still have serious air quality problems. But I'd bet my house they'll be on top of it within a decade.
SmooveT63
Too little, too late, too political, too provincial. #uncapturedexternalities
BiteTheHandsThatThieve
They're actually working on it.
JGGennedy
HA! Lies, "Birth control reduces teen pregnancies." "Gun control reduces mass shootings." What will those liberals think of next?!?
doctorbees
They tried to tell me OxyClean gets the stains out. Such nonsense!
Tarlon
China; the land of millennia of history and beauty; withered away by toxic industry and the ideology that built it.
jackiespiff
Dude landing in cloud city
hoxanator
In Beijing, China, they turned off the factories this week for their party party and it was blue skies. Crazy stuff.
namiasdf
When I was there we had a day of clear skies. Didnt have to clean soot out of my nose.
cunninglinguist85
Didn’t they turn them off for the Olympics too?
Aesurah
And spray painted grass extra green.
cunninglinguist85
Haha! Didn’t know that!
d0o0o0d
Yep.
jelladelta
Land in Silent Hill
Amber29
My lungs! Ugh
ScaredSpitless
Gross.
turnip001
I'm fairly sure China is a different planet. It has a different atmosphere, year and culture.
promilleken1
You traveled into the past and everything is black and white now
kuzvo240
I'm actually pretty impressed with the steps China is taking towards clean energy/Ecars. They quickly became the largest renewable market.
wonder89
The Republicans here think air pollution is a myth.
doctorbees
As someone who studies air pollution toxicity, let me at 'em.
kuzvo240
I got links for those interested. The bad air quality is a serious issue and they know it.
EmberFiretail
Even with the their energy plans, China still has it's own chart for air quality, it's not even funny how much higher it is then everybody.
FilthyRaider
The Australians clearly not doing their bit to make the planet uninhabitable.
ValhallaBlades
Ahhh.... have you seen our animals?
bondagewithjesus
Nah we have political party in at the moment where like half the members don't believed in climate change or regulations
boobcat
Like Hell. Where do think China gets it's goal? Aus' is building New coal powerstations over green tech. Mining is why Australia has money.
MindOfMobius
according to libertarians it doesn't matter because the Sun is going to envelope the Earth in fire in a few billion years
xiandrii
Planet Nibiru is also going to smash into us BUY MY BOOK TO LEARN WHEN (scientists hate me for Exposing the truth!)
FilthyRaider
Well the Andromeda Galaxy should hit ours in 4.5 billion so one way or another we're fucked.
auscaliber
That collision is very unlikely to even upset the solar system. We'll just have new constellations
ImThatGuyForSure
I'd be surprised if we made it another thousand years
halfhumanhalfpie
Psst hey ya wanna buy some coal??!
Ifixthingsthatdestroyotherthings
Obviously you haven’t heard about their excellent progress destroying the Great Barrier Reef. Quite impressive really.
Aesurah
Hey we are getting help on destroying that from the rest of the world. We are an inclusive society, everyone helps!
AgeisFang
Global warming has a major stake in that effort
Ifixthingsthatdestroyotherthings
Oceanic warming and acidification yes, but also offshore industry, fishing, unregulated eco-tourism, and short sited policy decisions
FilthyRaider
I do not hear the fish complaining, so cannot count this.
Manieman
We are also in the top 10 for deforestation and we are scrapping the green energy plan for more affordable power
bondagewithjesus
Which is fucked because green energy costs less the produce
Manieman
Yeah I don't know why power is so expensive and they wanna open more gas power plants
bondagewithjesus
Probably because most of our power grids have been privatised
palpameme
The fuck? Who's doing that?
Manieman
Australian government
governmentgavemeagun
Cunts. And not the good kind.
tototototoro
Don't worry our backward Luddite government has a hard on for coal like trumplestiltskin
joc101
That's just as much everyone else's fault too, it takes a combined global effort to heat up the sea
ignimbrite
Letting a large coal mine set up shop right next to it probably wasn't the best idea however
joc101
Yeah that's fair
Tesseract09
At the moment you probably wouldn't notice the difference.
1234canIhavealittlemore
China has turned into a set for bladerunner.
Tayeul3
At least there was no more fire when you landed
sungoat80
“China’s factories have to keep up with American’s happy meal toy shortage.”- American
bigbirdchokingonausedcondom
We already know "trademark agreement" doesn't translate well, apparently neither does "save the planet"
johnwayne12
What are other countries doing to save the planet that china isn't doing?
ForMyOwnAmusement
well for one, they've let their manufacturing industries disappear.
johnwayne12
That's only because they outsource it to developing countries cuz its cheaper. Either ways in terms of carbon footprints manufacturing is
johnwayne12
very small compared to power or transportation
4528bing
Chinese uses low quality North Korean coal polluting air
EnglishPolice
I sure hope there is land in China.
Huehuehuehuehuehueh
Jesus the air pollution there is so bad.
HRinappropriate
Doesn't matter much what the US does when China, Mexico, all of India look like this....
DarthClitoris
I know many many many Americans who try their best not to buy products from China, to bad my dad works for HSN
johnwayne12
are distributed and you don't see smog doesn't mean you're a big part of the problem. We all have to pull our weight
johnwayne12
has 4 times less people. The US produces 3 times more CO2 than india, and also has about 4 times less people. Just because your city centers
johnwayne12
It does. China and India have hugely dense population and industrial centers. The US produces half of chinas CO2. That's still huge, and USA
TheType95
Well, we're all taking advantage of cheap labour for our throwaway consumer lifestyles... We're kinda responsible.
Redisia
I try to buy durable things, don't swap out things because of style and purchase fresh vegetables instead of prepackage stuff. Any tips?
TheType95
I try to avoid electronics that will date excessively, and try to buy things that are built locally. Where I am the industry is on the wane/
TheType95
but they still make plastics, so we make a point of buying locally-manufactures containers and storage bins.
ddtrann3
Bad comparison... Location and time frame are off. Weather could be cloudy.
notsurewhatimdoinhere
Australia- where the air is the only thing that doesn’t kill you
baturinsky
Sun, on the other hand...
ThogStonechucker
Fire tornado
ifoundthelight
Yet.
MrBarn
Yet... muhahaha
numnumz
Yea it is especially since abandoning the clean energy traget
AntiEvil007
Makes me think of that death breathers post.
FiestaCamel
doesnt kill you yet
zee14
Unless it's summer
Jovikvon
Hahaha poor child. You have never been near a wild fire. Or sand storm or Sydney in fog.
boobcat
Sydney Air Pollution is very deadly.
boobcat
It does in Sydney
AndreKroon
Oxygen slowly kills you.
Haxalotl
The airs pretty hot here. It kills people.
thewinkingskeever
Well there is Thunderstorm Asthma down here - that’s the air... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderstorm_asthma
thewinkingskeever
Caused 9 deaths
Doddsy96
Bar the skin cancer 1 in 6 get skin cancer. In some states its 1 in 4.
Esarty
We actually dropped from skin cancer capital of the world to 2nd place!
Esarty
If I remember correctly New Zealand took number 1
Wakkapow
"Hold my beer" - Air probably.
communicationbreakdown
Yeah but the UV rays will
G3arShift
Hi, 2020 here, I'd like to talk.
hulkmad
Yet
hatimsr
Lol not really anymore
sexyGandalf12
Not yet
Dalumbr
HAH we actually made you think there's something that doesn't try to kill you here, guess again mate
KZDM
Highest rate of skin cancer in the world, thank you sun
Unitard
Well, unless you count the hole in the ozone layer. I suppose that’s more just “aiding and abetting the sun to kill you” though.
CheeseIsNaturesFudge
I think it closed up, might be wrong but if it's not then it's pretty exciting.
fitlex
Captain Planet saves the day again
FartmanMD
It is but the ozone’s still really thin
Dyslexicbirch
Yep it closed
weregonnatopthatwithalittlecremefraiche
Still top 3 in skin cancerate: http://www.wcrf.org/int/cancer-facts-figures/data-cancer-frequency-country
CheeseIsNaturesFudge
I think the amount of time people spend in the sun boosts that, the hole is closed but very thinly.
TheRockDude
cue the breaking news story about how the air maimed a curious tourist
Stefanfr1997
Australia in 2018: "SURPRISE, BITCH! FLYING CROCODILES!"
Lulabel73
Well... http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/coronial-investigation-uncovers-tenth-thunderstorm-asthma-death-20171018-gz3j59.html
IdiosyncraticUsername
The one that swept through last year got me. I was outside when it hit too. Took a few hours to get my breathing back in order.
driedoutsponge
I remember that
idowhatiwanton
Yeah that's nice
Lulabel73
They had another warning today
dumbefi
Yet.
ihavethelowground
Don't give them any ideas
joc101
Too late, already poking it with a stick to see if it bites
Last1augh
Classic.