Beijing Apocalypse: A glimpse of fossil fuels gone wild

[Quantum]

"The interests of the rich world and an unaccountable Chinese Communist elite have neatly dovetailed. The West gets its cheap consumer desirables and China gets rich without the inconvenience of the independent scrutiny, regulation or democratic oversight of other markets."
(http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-3858...)

[Mike]

a bad sign for a government when you can barely even breath the air in the capital city.

[Bernard]

It's simply the measure of the importance they give to human life!

[Nik]

According to WHO, India is even more of a 'super-star' in air pollution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

[Graeme]

The technology for solving this problem has been around for decades and is widely used in the West.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flue-ga...

It's just a matter of saving money/increasing profit on the part of the local ruling class that these sorts of systems have not been put in place.