BEIJING - China’s air quality saw “incomparable” improvements in the first quarter of this year as a coronavirus outbreak led to rapid declines in industrial activity and transportation, an environment ministry official said on Friday.
“That was a level we didn’t even dare imagine,” he said, noting the target for the whole 2016-2020 period was 3.3 percentage points. Emissions in the city of Shanghai fell by nearly 20% in the first quarter while Beijing’s average emissions levels stood still in the first three months of the year, the data showed.
The province, however, attributed the drop to its crackdowns on pollution rather than the coronavirus.China has gradually loosened the lockdown since late March in several cities and Liu said the resumption of normal economic activity had not led to a noticeable decline in air quality so far. The country normally sets targets over the October-March winter heating period, forcing cities to make improvements in air quality compared to the previous year.
Is this an Onion reprint?
While they stopped industrial working, that’s stopped air pollution, better breathing.
With a bit of luck, there may be a silver lining to this disaster? It’s all too easy to forget what the quality of the air, land and sea should be like. This brief pause in our modern world has shown us how quickly change can positively affect our climate. Let’s invest in change.
Well, its a bit obvious that 2020 emissions reduction worldwide will go down as the best in the century considering the grounding of most international travel and individual lockdown—but it won’t last.
The air is so much cleaner everywhere - friend with asthma has seen a vast improvement in her health and breathing in recent weeks.
Time2Coach Squeaky clean china that caused the crap anyway
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Why didn’t they care about air and their emissions until now?
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They did all this and made the world suffer to Improve their air quality? Smdh