Jump to full article: China Daily (cn), 2009-03-12
Author: Patrick Whiteley
Intro: Two Chinese businessmen walk into an international airport smoking room crowded with Western men puffing on cigars. The two Chinese are about to light up when one suit-wearing smoker turns and barks: "Do you mind?"
This is an old analogy used to illustrate the hypocrisy of some in the West who blame China for the world's pollution woes. . . .
London's Great Smog of 1952 is an extreme example of how this situation can go from bad to worse. More than 12,000 Londoners died as a result of the five-day catastrophe. The city's undertakers ran out coffins and it forced the British government to pass the original Clean Air Act.
This is a tragedy no nation wants to repeat.
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