Green Games in 2008 June 28, 2007
Posted by nbeyond in : issues , trackbackChinese government promised to hold Summer Olympic games 2008 as Green Games. Problems arise in the air that athletics breathe outdoor. Ozone and other fine dusts when there is no rain or wind may be threatening the health of these athletics covered by Spiegel Online.
On my second thought, what about the 11 million people who are living and breathing the air daily? The other stupid idea about this question may be that the evidence of those 11 million residents is the very proof that the air is breathable and okay at least for the time of the games.
This is just my wild guess to get this dirty air clean ASAP. Considering the communistic or totalitarian aspect of China and the government already promised to have the Green Games, they may stop 80 percents of vehicles and polluting factories running say two months before the game and wait for nice showers to wash away all the fine dirts in the air. Surely together with planting some greens in the city long before the games.
But the article says that this is not the case. A significant number of residents are sick because of one of the dirtiest air in the world. Even if they stop all the vehicles, the factories, and other possible heating or cooling system, the wind depending on the direction carries 50 to 70 percents of the fine dusts from somewhere outside of Beijing.
No remedy unless they set a pretty extensive perimeter centered Beijing and shut off all the polluting machines or factories long before the games. I guess if they would do this, this might have been at least more than 15 percents of shutdown overall in China.
Interested and motivated in seeing how they manage to turn this gray dusty environment into the green one at least for the time of the Green Games.
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