Beijing Pollution So Bad That International Schools Build Filtered Air Domes for Children
June
22nd, 2013
How
about if all the shit-for-brains politicians in New Zealand, who
gladly bend over for China, send their kids over there to play in the
domes?
After
nearly two decades in Beijing, David Wolf knew it was time for a
change when his 11-year-old son, Aaron, somberly asked him, “Dad,
when you were growing up, did you ever have PE outdoors?”
Wolf
had grown up in smog-choked Los Angeles in the 1970s, but even that
wasn’t nearly as bad as Beijing today. His son, like many young
students in the city, has been kept inside for months, with
the luckier children getting the chance to exercise under huge
air-filtered domes that
their international schools have built.
Later
this month, when school lets out, Aaron and his mother will move to
Southern California for good, and Wolf begins a new way of doing his
consulting work, splitting his time between Beijing and their new
home at Channel Islands Harbor.
“I
want them to leave before they hate this place,” Wolf, 49, said on
a recent morning as he checked Beijing’s air quality on a
smartphone app, something that many people here, expats and locals
alike, routinely do several times a day.
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