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To: FJB who wrote (989436)

12/21/2016 10:51:45 AM

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Smog refugees flee Chinese cities as ´airpocalypse´ blights half a billion
Guardian [UK], by Tom Phillips*

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Posted By: Lalo, 12/21/2016 9:51:49 AM

Tens of thousands of “smog refugees” have reportedly fled China’s pollution-stricken north after the country was hit by its latest “airpocalyse” forcing almost half a billion people to live under a blanket of toxic fumes. Huge swaths of north and central China have been living under a pollution “red alert” since last Friday when a dangerous cocktail of pollutants transformed the skies into a yellow and charcoal-tinted haze. Greenpeace claimed the calamity had affected a population equivalent to those of the United States, Canada and Mexico combined with some 460m people having to breathe either hazardous pollution ...