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[jimmi james]

Greetings
Feelin a little tired........Itchy eyes......Itchy nose.......Hoarse throat......Irregular heartbeat........GASPING FOR F***ING OXYGEN..........?????
Some serious pollution we got goin here .......
OHHHH ooops i forgot.......that Fukwit at the EPD said our air quality is gettin better and better............DIK.
I wish i could live with my head wedged firmly up my ass/wallet.

Peace

[Sneaky-O]

Lamma used to be a haven for fresh air, even when the pollution was serious over in Hong Kong Island. But these last couple of days that does seem to have changed.

[jimmi james]

It's a fact that the whole area is choking and worsening....the Government continues to lie and hide the truth from the people.
Health advisories are omitted .......and the crisis is (un)clear for all to see.
WE ARE BEING POISONED........OUR CHILDREN ARE BEING POISONED.

I wish as many as can see it link to the following site.......this is not a Greenpeace "over reaction".......this is a scientific method of calculating air quality using EU standards.The HK government uses a bogus "LYING" method .Those who choose to live here should consider the health facts......Those who have no choice but to live here will be suffer.


http://api.greenpeace.org.hk/index.php?lang=en

also the site in which this appears

http://www.cleartheair.org.hk/china.htm


Peace

[yaffle]

cant...spel...pperly...brain....mltiiing...maybe...p;lllution?

[jimmi james]

Greetings
I felt the need to point out that even though Lamma and perhaps South Lantau/Cheung Chau don't suffer from the same street level and "sitting cloud" pollution that is now occuring, with almost daily frequency in Yuen Long and our inner cities,the islanders' complacency is misguided.
The WHOLE geographic area of South China is experiencing serious air hazard in the form of pollution........ABC=Asian Brown Cloud.
If i stand in South lantau and look across to lamma i might say to myself "Wow,it's polluted over there!"........but i am sure if u stand in Lamma on the same day and look across to Lantau you might well be saying "Wow,it's polluted over there".
In the past it was possible to say that only the city or a specific area had high pollution/smog.Even now on a day when the pollution doesn't seem so bad ,the air is not crystal clear like it should be in these dry ,sunny months.WHY?
So put simply......... in the past the air was predominantly clean and occasionally polluted.
Now the air is predominantly polluted and frequently Very polluted.
I have said it before and i want to again....the government is actively covering up the facts in order that many people who are valuable to the "machine" do not quickly leave,as they might if the truth be told.
Idling engines,inner city still choked full with cars and buses,Buses churning out exhaust(the "this bus is green" sticker means nothing).And all the people still jus Bla,Bla,Blaing on into the haze.
Idling engines should become against the law from TOMORROW MORNING.Those caught immediately loose their licence permanently and are fined heavily.
Large areas of Central,Wan Chai,Causeway Bay, Tsim Sha Tsui, Jordan ,Yau Ma Tei,Mong Kok and on and on should be off limits to all vehicules from TOMORROW MORNING.The areas should be pedestrianised and all deliveries etc would need to come in on a trolley.
If this happened it would only help to alleviate a small part of the problem but it's a start.Why won't it happen?.......... because, apart from Long Hair,the Legco and their business buddies are jus too dam selfish and money minded.Everyone is bla,bla blaing about democracy when we will probably be choked to death before we get the chance to vote in a corrupt,lying crook like the leaders of USA,UK and it seems the majority of the countries in the world.
WE NEED CHANGE NOW.


Peace

[jimmi james]

Some recent quotes


``It's an absolute scandal,'' said Anthony Hedley, chairman of the department of community medicine at the University of Hong Kong. ``Hong Kong is going backward in terms of pollution. The government has been non-interventionist to the point of being really negligent.''

On average Hong Kong experiences low visibility every five days, according to a CLSA report in April. Good air quality days fell to 35 percent last year compared with 45 percent in 2001, it said. Singapore is by far the cleanest city in Asia in terms of air quality, while Tokyo, Seoul, and Taipei all enjoy better air than Hong Kong, the report said.
Falling air quality in Hong Kong will affect the health of the city's residents long into the future, said Professor Tai Hing Lam, head of the department of community medicine at the University of Hong Kong.
``If air pollution affects our people at a young age, then we may see something more disastrous in the coming years,'' said Lam. ``Pollution is becoming a major problem in Hong Kong.''


The city's attractiveness as a travel destination is also under threat, according to industry officials such as Mark Lettenbichler, chairman of the Hong Kong Hotels Association, and Selina Chow, chairman of the Hong Kong Tourism Board.
``It should be the government's number one priority,'' Chow said.

[jimmi james]

Today ,sunday,the government has produced no air quality readings at all from 1pm onwards.Anyone have any information on why this may be so?

Peace

[chuckm]

I fear that this sort of thing will make people think twice before venturing to HK, at least for extended stays.

Of all the strange and wonderful things I read about life on Lamma (including the creepy-crawley critters), air quality is one item that makes me think carefully about living there.

We have much the same problem in Canada. You'd think that with our millions of sq.km of pristine forest and prairie land that Canada would be a land of clean air. Not so in the major cities! I never visit Toronto any more because brown haze has been a feature of the landscape there for several years now, and summer air quality warnings are becoming too common. Acid rain is a severe problem everywhere in eastern Canada, right to the Atlantic coast. A lot of the pollution originates in the USA and spreads eastward, but Canadians must accept some of the blame too.

Here on the west coast, where ocean breezes wash in from the Pacific, you'd think we would be pretty well free of this problem, but even here we're fouling our own nest. Things haven't gotten as bad as the eastern part of the country, but that's no excuse for our degrading air quality, caused primarily by all the vehicles on our overcrowded roads.

Never breathe anything you have to chew on beforehand!

Sorry ... I had to get that off my chest