15 terrifying photo of facts about the great Chinese smog Bashny.Net

They say that to breathe the whole day on the streets of Beijing - anyway that smoke 40 cigarettes. It is unlikely that this comparison is correct from the medical point of view, but rather shaped to convey all the darkness and horror of air pollution capital of China. The site collected some facts and eloquent photos that convey the full extent of bedstviya.



In 2013, a special group at the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that smog over the capital of China's fifty percent - transport emissions, smoke from burned coal and evaporation during cooking.







Air pollution in China - the cause of death of about 1, 6 million people per year, 17% of the total number of deaths in the country.







The authorities of the People's Republic of China established in the country of a thousand monitoring stations that measure including the level of sulfur dioxide, ground-level ozone and particles with a diameter of up to 2, 5 microns - a very fine dust, harmful to health.





According to "Bloomberg", in 2002, 100,000 were 49 cases of lung cancer among men, 30 for women. In 2010, these figures respectively accounted for 75 and 46.







Coal consumption in China accounts for almost 60%, which is disturbing and the environmentalists and the government, but the solution to this problem yet. Gas accounts for only 6%, whereas in developed countries, including the Russian - more than 25%.







The authorities are taking steps, but the end can not yet be seen: coal consumption in 2030 will drop to only 49%. Damage to the environment - the key to economic growth in China.







According to the US Embassy in Beijing, the index content in the air of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) reached 344 units, which is ten times higher than the WHO definition of safe health standards 25 micrograms of dirty particles per cubic meter of air.





via factroom.ru