{"id":163477,"date":"2019-09-30T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/?p=163477"},"modified":"2024-12-09T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T02:42:49","slug":"air-pollution-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/air-pollution-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"After the smog is gone: Pollution in Hong Kong just got realer than a real thing, but what can you do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahhhhhh… there\u2019s nothing quite like waking up in the morning, stepping outside and enjoying your first 25 cigarettes. Over the past few days, the air pollution in Hong Kong has risen to staggering levels of disgustingness. High to Very High readings were recorded across most of the territory\u2019s air quality stations, and you only had to step outside and into the yellow haze to understand why around 4.2million people worldwide die from ambient air pollution every year.<\/p>\n

With this being some of the worst air quality in the world right now, can you even imagine what this is doing to your health, let alone that of the littlies whose lungs are still developing?! This is one top 10 list Hong Kong really doesn\u2019t want to be on.<\/p>\n

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This is the situation we are currently dealing with<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Word on the street\u2013and if you\u2019ve lived here for a while, you\u2019ve probably noticed this trend\u2013is that the factories in Southern China are working over-time to produce all their goods before Christmas, but before playing the old \u2018blame China\u2019 card, let\u2019s talk about the facts.<\/p>\n

Who is to blame for the rank air pollution in Hong Kong?<\/h3>\n

The short answer to this is: we all are. The only reason factories are scrambling to make cheap plastic toys and fast fashion is because we as consumers demand them. We want more bang for our buck, and we don\u2019t care if the product is made in China, shipped back to France, or New Zealand or the States and then flown to us after a few pushes of keys on the computer and a quick input of the credit card. But the madness has to stop.<\/p>\n

If 2019 wants to be known for anything, it needs to be as the year we consumers demanded change through the power of our spending habits. This doesn\u2019t mean you have to stop buying things completely, but you really need to educate yourself on how to shop, so that those of us living in the vicinity of the huge factories around the Pearl River Delta can breathe again (breathe again. Sorry, sidetracked by a Toni Braxton moment.)<\/p>\n