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Chinese people are living two years longer thanks to 'war on pollution,' report says | CNN

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Great! Now could they please legalize speaking about pollution?
Check out PurpleAir in Asia. Lots of sensors in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Nepal, Laos, Cambodia, Mongolia. Very few in China, and none in Beijing.
- You mean, China doesn't want a US IoT company to install a whole bunch of sensors in China? Say it isn't so!
  
  In my experience, when someone wants to restrict you from speaking about the facts of the world you live in, they usually don't have your best interests at heart.
- But than how could China lie?
While China’s particulate pollution levels are within its national standards, they “significantly exceed” the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines
Still not exactly great but at least it's progress.
glad it's gotten better, hope it keeps improving. it's something we take for granted in developed countries - the air in New England was so awful during the Canadian wildfires you didn't even want to be outside, and there are places where that's kind of a normal thing.
Meanwhile.
i remember beijing in the early 2010's being a smog hellhole. i heard it's gotten way better since but i haven't been back myself to confirm it
- It's gotten way better, like, shockingly better.
  
  If China has one major strength, it’s that it can make changes with the quickness. Most definitely that is the tied to their style of government (most aspects I’d be critical to, this area however…) but they excel at rapid transformation.

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