Most Polluted cities (air pollution, oil, smog)

[DAP443]

Which city do you think is the most polluted out of the list? Please show some pictures.

[DAP443]

My vote goes to both Shanghai and Beijing. If you in either cities, you would think that the sky is falling.

[DAP443]

Originally Posted by CoolPerson45

My vote goes to both Shanghai and Beijing. If you in either cities, you would think that the sky is falling.

Yes, I agree. Pollution over in many cities in China is terrible.

Here are some pictures of air pollution in Shanghai.








Some air pollution in Beijing

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm220/AnnaMollyMadison/china650.jpg (broken link)












That's not going to be good for the athletes at the Olympics.

[Billiam]

Chinese cities are ridiculous with air pollution and its sad because they're such great cites but they're not doing much to reduce the smog.

[noland123]

The problem with the smog situation is twofold especially in large cities,whereby a prodigious autombiles are being driven and the second if the city sits down in a valley where pollutants just settle and flow of air currents is not present on a very hot day. The only way to alleviate the smog is through rain or heavy windsor having cooler temperatures.

China is a country now more dependent upon oil consumption,so more automobiles are being driven they use to ride bikes mostly before,so more cars are causing more pollution,therefore more smog.

[Dexterguy]

I don't think that this is true today, but at one time the City of Gary, IN was the most polluted city in the world. But I believe that was before China started to industrialize and become polluted with smog. I really do not follow pollution status.

[Dexterguy]

Here is a picture of Gary, Indiana steel plants.

[recycled]

I visited China 10 years ago, and Beijing had pretty bad air pollution at that time. LA is plenty bad, but not as bad as Beijing. Bejing has more bad particulate air pollution than most places. I rode a bike all around the city and used a dust filter mask like thousands of other people do. After a just a few hours the front of the dust filter mask was pretty dirty, and it was not a bad smog day. In Beijing, most people used to cook meals on a stove that used round little bricks that look like coal that has been compressed with perforations (so that it burns better). I noticed a lot of "soot" from those millions of coal burning cooking stoves.

You left Houston and Mexico City off the list? Why is Berlin on this list? Berlin should be on the list of large cities with the clean air.

[rxnasi]

i think the chinese cities are bad but what about mexico city i heard it is bad

[Luke Skywalker]

Houston should be on here.