i am pretty sure that i read somewhere that some of the pollution in our pacific northwest can be traced back to china/beijing.

Yep the entire plant is screwed thanks to humans reckless polluting. Some areas more than others.

It's been going on for quite awhile!!!!

I thought they had coal fired plants close by and the wind going the wrong way will make a big mess.

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I was in Beijing last year for a month...swear to God, after two weeks my lungs started feeling like they were caving in(and I am in very good physical shape).

Powerplants, industry and cars all contribute heavily to the problem...it's just like the US at the start of the industrial revolution.

but with 100 times the population.

"The earth is gonna' shake us off like a bad case of fleas." George Carlin