China being the worst polluter, but not just in china.......

Was in Southern China a while back. City had thousands upon thousands of electric scooters. The air was still hazy several days due to them making the electric power with coal plants.

There are web sites where you can see AQI (air quality index) for anywhere in the world.

The scale goes from 0 to 500, most of the places monitoring dont have equipment that will measure beyond 500 because they never thought it would be that bad. But during the winter you will see 500 popping up in some cities.

Per my OP the worst air quality in the world is considered Pakistan, the number one beneficiary of belt and road investment.

I know on BBC I hear reports from Mumbai during the winter when the air quality was so bad people did not want to drive because the air was so "thick" like a dense fog.

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Don,t they have areas where the air pollution is so bad that people have to wear masks?
Or is that rumor?

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Not that bad in Guangzhou which is just west of Hong Kong.

I remember going through Pittsburg in the mid-1950's and LA too in those days. Now that was nasty, eye burning stuff.

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There are web sites where you can see AQI (air quality index) for anywhere in the world.

The scale goes from 0 to 500, most of the places monitoring dont have equipment that will measure beyond 500 because they never thought it would be that bad. But during the winter you will see 500 popping up in some cities.

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air quality index
A good term to know. Thanks for giving me something new to learn this morning. Good info!