Skyrocketing pollution in Beijing. And now China is investing $360 billion in renewables.

POLLUTION IN BEIJING –

China is trying to attack the smog that is suffocating it, even the the road to seeing concrete results is still very long. In the face of a real cataclysm, as demonstrated by the emergency pollution In Beijing, the Chinese government is taking two measures: investing huge sums in renewable energy and trying to improve energy efficiency.

RENEWABLE ENERGY AGAINST POLLUTION –

On the first point, in the face of cuts in oil production (- 7 percent on a total of 200 million tons) by 2020, in the same period of time, national and local investments in renewables for a figure equal to 360 billion dollars. On the second point, however, the attempt is to modernize the entire energy supply network, for example by reducing the enormous waste in the food sectorlighting public.

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BEIJING POPULATION GROWTH –

One of the most affected cities is the capital. Pollution in Beijing it is above any safety threshold: just think that in the megalopolis even thewater. That's right: approximately 500 billion cubic meters of water are missing and we don't know where to get it from, given that pollution has effectively devastated rivers and lakes. The entire water supply system is compromised, all natural resources have been exploited, depleted or destroyed.

POLLUTION IN CHINA –

The Chinese capital also has a major population problem: while the government's goal was to reach a maximum of 22 million inhabitants by 2020, Beijing now has more than 23 million. In short, the city continues to grow and pollute.. And perhaps it would be a good idea to think of China no longer as the world's productive locomotive but as the homeland of a great environmental disaster.

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