Chinese manufacturing contributing mightily to air pollution on North American west coast

by Ben Reilly Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:29 pm

Pollution doesn't respect national borders.

Outsourcing manufacturing to China may have resulted in less pollution in some parts of the United States, but other regions have lesser air quality because of U.S.-bound Chinese products, a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds.

"Pollution from China is having an effect in the U.S., and we need to recognize how that is affecting both our background ozone levels and also particulates that are reaching the West Coast," said study co-author Don Wuebbles, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In the western United States, Chinese pollution related to exports contribute up to 12% to 24% of daily sulfate concentrations, the study said.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/20/health/pollution-china-pnas/

by Guest Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:30 pm

That is not good!!!!

by Ben Reilly Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:32 pm

Edited the title; I don't want to blame the Chinese as a people for this!

But yeah, looks like the global capitalist game of hopscotch really does affect people in more ways than the obvious ...

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