London’s ‘Great Smog’ Provides Lessons for China
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Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Fall may be in the air, but in China,it’s the pollution that’s most visible. This is the time of yearwhen many northern industrial cities switch on coal-firedheating plants to provide warmth to urban dwellers. Whencombined with copious quantities of industrial pollution fromfactories dependent on coal, entire cities shut down, as Harbindid a couple of weeks ago.
The government’s response is hardly reassuring: morepledges of conversion to cleaner fuels, even though coal use isexpected to double by 2030, as well as plans to set up anational monitoring system in the hardest-hit cities. Fiddlingwhile Rome burns.