Know your ABC's

Possible contributors to the infamous ABC, or Asian Brown Cloud...

Read more about this menace to the world's most populous continent here...
I first heard this term a few years ago when the BBC declared it a threat to Asia, and that millions would die of respiratory failure if something wasn’t done to reduce it.

Have you been to south East Asia? The nations across this vibrant region have polluted the shit out of the skies, and apparently it’s all fault that pilot’s horizons are bleaker, browner and thicker than ever before.

Before the essential American and European white media points any more accusatory fingers at Asia, they should think, in a difficult, non-sensationalist way, how to SOLVE the problems they report upon.

Making us afraid of the ABC hasn’t made cars in America more fuel efficient, hasn’t reduced the growing desertification in northern China, and last time I checked there is a HUGE American Brown Cloud hanging over the Santa Anna, San Fernando and Simi Valleys.

When it comes to smog, LA wrote the book, made the term and lives the reality. This article (link) annotates that wood cooking fires are the major contributor to the ABC, though I would, in my less-than-expert analysis, point MY finger at Sumatran and Borneo slash and burn, the neo-Japanese concretization of China’s east coast and all those scooters in Ho Chi Mihn City.