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    What's going on in Shandong?

    Air Pollution in Shandong: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map


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    Quote Originally Posted by civil_servant:
    That looks like a technical fault to me

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    Quote Originally Posted by UK/HKboy:
    Its a bit like going into someones home and they smoke inside, but you complain and tell them not to smoke. In that situation, if i couldn't bear the smoke, i would leave. But if it's the kids in their home, then its not as easy for them to leave even if they hate the smoke.
    Except we pay taxes to pay for a government to enact policies that are good for the city. The environment belongs to all of us.

    It would be like going to a park near your friends house and complaining to the park keeper that the place is a dirty polluted dump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Morrison:
    How many here have left Beiping for HK expecting better air ?
    It seeems it's at least two here, left in 2010
    2039?

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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Except we pay taxes to pay for a government to enact policies that are good for the city. The environment belongs to all of us.

    It would be like going to a park near your friends house and complaining to the park keeper that the place is a dirty polluted dump.
    Don't go in the park or visit friends in another city
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    Quote Originally Posted by dubai:
    Another gray and smoggy day in Hong Kong - it starts to feel like Beijing a few years ago.

    Do you guys have any gut feel when the smog will become less and we can see the sun again?
    Maybe not for the next couple of days, as it seems the northerly winds are continuing. I'm on a plane to somewhere with first world air quality in a couple of days. Can't bloody wait.
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    From 2013:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ty-secrets-age

    Family is a vital part of Ikarian culture and every old person I visit has children and grandchildren actively involved in their lives...
    "We keep the old people with us. There is an old people's home, but the only people there are those who have lost all their family. It would shame us to put an old person in a home. That's the reason for longevity."
    I ask what brought him back. "Fresh air," he says, "the best climate in the world and the friendliest people I've ever met."

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    Great article. Clean air, low stress and good food seems like a pretty simple formula.

    So why are we here?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrdollars:
    Great article. Clean air, low stress and good food seems like a pretty simple formula.

    So why are we here?
    To try and prove the article wrong.
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    Old Story that I'm sure many have read...

    The fisherman and the businessman

    There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village.
    As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.
    The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”
    The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”
    “Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.
    “This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.
    The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”
    The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”

    The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman.
    “I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.”

    The fisherman continues, “And after that?”
    The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”
    The fisherman asks, “And after that?”
    The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”
    The fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing now?”