Outdoor games to pause in China if air pollution rises more

Did you ever hear this type of the harms of air pollution? What if you are not allowed to play games because you may inhale a lot of polluted air while playing? This happened in China where owing to rising level of air contamination its sportspersons may be forbidden to play till it reduces back.

Yes believe me I am not kidding. Owing to the alarmingly rising level of air pollution in China the city government of its capital Beijing issued a warning to the sportspersons of the metropolis. They are directed not to play if contaminants in the air increase to the level of 500 particles.

Air pollution shot up in China

Right now the air pollution in Beijing is ranging from 176 to 442 as recorded on 12^th January 2013. Its level is considered not harmful if it is near about 50. If it crosses the level of 300 it becomes more dangerous to human life. Its escalating level promptly affects the people’s health by causing eye irritation, migraine, asthma, throat infection, skin allergy and respiratory disease including the deadly lung cancer in people. If people have to breathe fast because of a workout or sports they would be more vulnerable to this menace.

In winter air pollution aggravates more

Every year Beijing city government warns its citizen to adopt precautionary measures against the notoriously rising level of air pollution in the city. In winter fog and haze level rise up and it mix into the vehicular and industrial emissions and become worst form of the smog pollution. China fulfill its energy needs through coal. Its coal power plants in huge number are worldwide notorious for their high level of carbon emissions. Its unplanned and robust industrial growth has already overtaken the slow speed of its pollution control measures. 

China should make development sustainable

Global observers have all the rights to ask if China is so much aggressive to produce more and earn more foreign exchange why not it takes environmental measures to control its air pollution. Chinese products are abundant in every market of the world but now its carbon emissions are also following its products in size and quantity.

Poor neighbors of China suffer

Another sad aspect of the air pollution in China is its huge number of neighbors. China is one of the few countries in the world that has 14 neighbors. Some of them are very poor including Afghanistan, Bhutan, Pakistan, Laos, Myanmar, Mongolia, Nepal and India. Air emissions do not know any borders. Therefore, its neighbor would equally be affect by its air contaminants. Eventually they would hit ozone layer over the sky and will expand its depletion.

Conclusion

Most of the maladies in China are defended on the argument of its huge size. It is enormous in size and population. But is there any law to give leniency to any country on the basis of its size. If it is so big it must equally have more resources. The need is to keep balance between environment and development. For this purpose China has to bring drastic changes in its pollution control system. Otherwise its entire development would be offset by the rising level of pollution and one-day it has to stand in the row of the least developed countries.