class war

Missed in the article of motor bike banning was the class issue: only the poorer working class people buy motor bikes because they cannot afford cars. Motor bikes are the least of the polluters, the rich people driving SUVs perhaps top the list. Get the class war here? The rich can't be slammed: they are either business sector and therefore high dollar income (and taxes) or government people. Buses could have been hit with something... like turning the non-electric buses into electric ones. As to the gov't report on pollution...obviously none of those people have been to Lanzhou out in far northwest Gansu province where the pollution settles in in Sept and blue sky is not seen until May. I know. I lived there. I couldn't breathe after walking 100 metres during the winter. Here in Guangzhou, though things are bad, I can breathe--and there's an occasional wind to blow the sky clear. There's alot missing, then, and alot that's going on beneath the surface that should be dealt with, rather than just reporting "he said, they said, someone said."

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