Pollution in Beijing

Beijing’s Smog

There’s have been major problems in China with the smog before, but at this moment in time the smog is causing a whole other issue, expenses. The first thing that Jiang does when she wakes up in the morning is that she checks if her daughter is breathing clean air. This shouldn’t be the main concern of anyone anywhere pollution is such a horrible thing that major cities defiantly need to get taken care of. Even the water in Beijing is not able to be drank, the water for drinking is imported for people, but has to be bought. For Beijing’s rising middle class and poorer residents, this high-end home equipment is financially out of reach. Not this pollution problem in China is turning into a class issue; and it’s killing off those left behind. Studies have shown that there has been over 3 million deaths across 74 cities throughout China. Matthew Kahn stated when talking to CNN that, “Air pollution exacerbates inequality between the rich and poor in urban China.” The rich is liver in the cleaner parts of the city, with their effective filters as the poor are struggling to keep their children awake and breathing. 

A family in China installed a fresh air filtering system, which cause them about 4,300 dollars, this is a ventilation system that cleans the outsides air and later pumps it into their homes. The purifiers in the homes need to be changed about once a month which costs around 430 dollars. Then if you include the filters that need to be put on the sinks, that costs around 300 dollars, and shower filters cost upwards to 1000 dollars. It has reached a point in China where there is more of a concern over air pollution throughout the country and it is threatening China’s stability. China needs to get a hold of this pollution before more people start dying as a result, as well as that the country needs to fix the problem because of the results of expensive that come with this pollution problem. 




http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/15/health/china-beijing-smog-tale-of-two-cities/index.html