• bjc
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    1 day ago

    China has the best air quality in east Asia probably, and I don’t think you’ll find a major world city of over 10 million people that has better air quality than a chinese megacity.

    maybe new york is only 8.6, but it’s famously landlocked and its megalopolis is ~50m. ok. do the same search on tokyo. do it on jakarta. chinese cities are some of the absolute worst in the world. this whole thread is just naked ccprop.

    china today is better than china 10 years ago. it would be pretty fucking hard to be worse and still have a living population. but it is significantly better than it used to be. the sun is visible on quite a few days of the year in your wonderful cities.

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      22 hours ago

      maybe new york is only 8.6, but it’s famously landlocked

      Did you mean famously not landlocked?

    • Krem [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      i’ll adjust my slightly hyperbolic suggestion that there are absolutely no megacities outside china with better air than any megacity inside china. there are probably a couple of examples of big cities with better air than the worst chinese megacity, not that any come to mind. tokyo would be similar, i guess. but new york? JAKARTA? really.

      chinese cities are some of the absolute worst in the world.

      no