Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Hong Kong is so polluted that ...

... it makes New York look like an environmentalist's paradise.
... they have a pollution index in the weather report (how many millions of particles are in a given air particle that day)
... you can't see the other side of the Harbor on a normal day.
... you can't drink the tap water.  Or have drinks with ice in it because the ice is made from tap water.
... you can feel the difference in air quality on the other side of the mountain.
... you couldn't pay me to go in the Ocean around here.
... you have to develop specific antibodies against it.
... if you're not used to it, you'll get sick.  Like me.
... I doubt that everyone here is wearing those surgical masks only because of swine flu.

The funny thing?  This isn't an industrial city.  It's financial.  Nothing is manufactured here.  All of the pollution is coming from China.

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