Here in San Francisco CCTV (Central Chinese Television out of Bejing) is available. (Any country that wants to market in the US should study it.)
Whenever they place a camera outdoors in a large city, the air pollution almost always prevents seeing blue sky. It is perpetually gray there. I’ve been told by visitors that it is a rare day that you can see across town in Beijing.
They have 600,000,000 peasants who all want washing machines, heat in the winter, cars, hair dryers, et cetera. If the Chinese government wants to exist, it has no choice but to build coal power plants as quickly as it can. Their goal is one new one a week (possibly achieving only one a month).
They don’t have the luxury of caring what Al Gore wants us to believe about greenhouse gases and global warming.
A buddy of mine a few years back frequently traveled to southeast Asia somewhere.
Hot - humid - miserably sticky. And the sweat drips off you kinda grayish and discolored.
He says everything there is gray - EVERYTHING! The pollution there is without doubt the worst in the world, hundreds, if not thousands of people die every year from it.
America is a paradise compared to that. Hell, LA is a paradise compared to that. No matter what the whackos say, we’ve done a pretty dam good job of it.