Man-made gas emissions have risen since last year

It was an early morning and the sky was particularly clear that day, unfortunately the bright blue sky was blemished by this Asarco smoke stack.

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Driving down Rt 18, it is hard to take my eyes off this scene.
Impact to the mind as I drive closer.
As almost forced to stop, I do and take this picture.
Impact.

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Photo from along the Ohio River

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Women in Indian villages, face this very own problem of smoke. They are poor and earn their living by some low paying agricultural jobs and cook food using fire woods. This picture was shot in a pottery town in Bangalore, India.

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Photograph of smoke stack made in Milwaukee Wisconsin. In an area know as the Third Ward. A very industrial part of the city.

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There is not so much to tell. But it is a DONG-energy powerstation in Denmark that suplies electricity and distant heating. You can watch a video if you follow the link and get more story about it.

LINK:

http://www.dongenergy.com/EN/business+activities/generation/electricity+generation/electricity+generation.htm

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I live and work in China. Pollution is a daily problem here, where one in four people will develop severe lung conditions. Last week was a terrible week across the East coast of China. The first week after the Olympics/paraolympics and thus the first week with factories restarted and cars back on the roads. It was apparent on Monday that we'd be coughing and blowing black dust out of our noses by Friday. Hopefully the people of Beijing will protest the reemergence of smog and make the Olympic changes permanent. In the meantime, there are a lot of coughing/wheezing people under the smog over here.

Massive pollution at daylight in Chengdu, China. Inconveniences of speeding up?

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What was amazing to us when we visited China was that each day we were there, the sun was so filtered by the pollution in the air that we could pretty much look up at it without hurting our eyes.  For the same reason, we never needed sunscreen.  The layer of pollution was sufficient to filter out any burning rays.  It was quite bizarre and terrifying actually. 

I grew up in the city that 15 of these photos were shot; Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada to be precise. In my last year of university I decided to do a photo study on the industrial landscape of my home town. Saint John is pretty much completely controlled by the Irving corporation to the point where they get away with insane environmental crimes and never get in trouble for them. This photo study was pretty eye opening for me because I was caught in the middle of two situations. If we cut down the amount of industry there was in our city there would be much less pollution (from the coal power plant, pulp and paper mill, oil refinery etc) but Saint John would be nearly shut down. These jobs keep my town going but they're killing the environment... and I'm sure there are 100s of other towns just like mine across North America. This is just scratching the surface of the issue, though. As you pointed out China is a main offender as they put next to no thought into emissions when dealing with industry.

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This is just a typical evening in Shanghai on the edge of the River Bund

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This was taken on a road trip outside Beijing.

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this photo was taken in Shang hai china. Sometimes we'd look up at the noon day sun, and it would be the color of a sunset. Dimly orange red. The tour guide in every city would talk about how their city was next to a river or mountain that kept it "foggy". The tour guides were all in their 20s and too young to remember what a blue sky looks like. Either they were truly ignorant to the pollution or are pawns to a greater public relations conspiricy, I'll just never know.

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Air-polluting factories are everywhere, even in the middle of Siberia. Despite all the promises to help save our planet pledged by leaders from developed countries all around the world, the low-level technologies and the lack of concern for the environment are two of the major factors contributing to the formation of surreal industrial landscape in the lesser travelled parts on our planet. What we are desperately in need of is no longer protectionism from 'certain' countries which are trying to pass the buck by breeding unnecessary xenophbic sentiments, like against Russia or China; what we need immediately is genuine global co-operation in solving the inevitable ecological crisis.

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On going to Hong Kong I did not expect that there would be a problem with air pollution on the scale I had witnessed.
The clearest views were on the southern side of Hong Kong Island but Victoria Harbour was regularly shrouded in what the news readers called "mist".

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