Airpocalypse #2

Unless someone/something forces me so, I would never move to Beijing. I consider this city as unhuman and unliveable. Needless to say why: The traffic + the air. Friends in Beijing keep calling me ignorant and refer to the intellectual scene and the cozy hutong bars. They are right, we don’t have that in commercial, über-chic Shanghai. But still, I just couldn’t live in a city where I am stuck in traffic jam for four hours a day and have a headache after five minutes walking out of the door.

According to a China Daily new report, Beijing hit a new 52-year-record in 2013 so far with 30 smoggy days, ten more than within the same period last year. The paper also posted an interesting pictures series that show how the changing air-quality in early November within six consecutive days:

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