{"id":1052498,"date":"2021-11-24T15:43:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T20:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1052498"},"modified":"2021-11-24T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T20:43:56","slug":"environmental-racism-uyghur-city-in-china-boasts-worlds-most-polluted-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/environmental-racism-uyghur-city-in-china-boasts-worlds-most-polluted-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Racism? Uyghur City in China Boasts World&#039;s Most Polluted Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fenvironmental-racism-uyghur-city-in-china-boasts-worlds-most-polluted-air%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1052498&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/china-us-xinjiang-dec-2018-file-photo-residents-pass-by-entrance-hotan-city-apparel-employment-trai-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">China\u2019s northwestern city of Hotan recorded \u201cthe worst average air quality\u201d in the world in 2020, India\u2019s <em>Business Standard<\/em> newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/international\/94-of-world-s-100-most-polluted-cities-are-in-india-china-pakistan-121112300020_1.html\">reported<\/a> Tuesday citing data from the air quality tracker IQAir.<\/p>\n<p>Hotan is located in a western Chinese region notorious for an extensive concentration camp system. Multiple world governments, including the administration of President Joe Biden, have deemed China\u2019s actions against the ethnic minority Uyghur people there a genocide.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The IQAir tracker, which measures harmful fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the atmosphere, ranked Hotan as number one on its index of most polluted cities in 2020. Hotan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqair.com\/world-most-polluted-cities?page=1&amp;perPage=50&amp;cities=\">posted<\/a> an average PM2.5 rating of 110.2 for 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParticulate matter contains microscopic solids or liquid droplets that are so small that they can be inhaled and cause serious health problems,\u201d according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome particles less than 10 micrometers in diameter can get deep into your lungs and some may even get into your bloodstream,\u201d the EPA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/pm-pollution\/particulate-matter-pm-basics\">states<\/a> on its website. \u201cOf these, particles less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, also known as fine particles or PM2.5, pose the greatest risk to health.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hotan is located in East Turkistan, officially called the \u201cXinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR)\u201d by Beijing. Xinjiang is China\u2019s westernmost and largest province. It borders Central Asia generally and is home to minority ethnic groups within China including Uyghurs, who are predominantly Turkic-speaking, Sunni Muslims. Other ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang include Kazakhs and Kyrgyz people. Xinjiang is a strategically significant region neighboring several other countries including Russia and India.<\/p>\n<p>Uyghurs and others from the area consider East Turkistan a separate nation from China under occupied rule. Human rights organizations and foreign governments, such as that of the U.S., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/millions-08032018142025.html\">estimate<\/a> that 1 to 3 million ethnic minority people in China\u2019s Xinjiang region \u2014 mainly Uyghurs, but also Kazakhs and Kyrgyz people \u2014 have been incorporated into state-run concentration camps since about 2017. Ex-employees and former detainees of the concentration camps allege to have either witnessed or endured physical and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-55794071\">sexual abuse<\/a>, torture, forced abortions, and forced <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-china-health-269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c\">sterilizations<\/a> while in the system.<\/p>\n<p>IQAir\u2019s 2020 World Air Quality Report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqair.com\/world-most-polluted-cities\/world-air-quality-report-2020-en.pdf\">indicates<\/a> that at least one of Xinjiang\u2019s cities, Hotan, has recently suffered not just from forced labor camps but also from the most intense pollution in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists in the United States have often paired alleged discrimination with climate issues under the label of \u201cenvironmental racism.\u201d The far-left U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has loosely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/10\/09\/elizabeth-warren-touts-plan-to-address-environmental-racism\/\">defined<\/a> the term by citing studies that allegedly suggest \u201cblack and Hispanic families are disproportionately affected by air pollution caused by white people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a government that\u2019s on the side of families\u2014not giant corporations polluting our communities. @RashidaTlaib and I walked through 48217, the most polluted zip code in Michigan, and talked with the families living every day with the effects of pollution,\u201d Sen. Warren said in a Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ewarren\/status\/1181626091540234241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1181626091540234241%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2019%2F10%2F09%2Felizabeth-warren-touts-plan-to-address-environmental-racism%2F\">video<\/a> posted on October 8, 2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>While Sen. Warren and most other far-left politicians in the U.S. have continued to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/warren-calls-on-environmental-protection-agency-to-implement-and-strengthen-environmental-justice-mapping-and-screening-efforts\">promote<\/a> \u201cenvironmental racism\u201d propaganda since 2019, they have largely remained silent on the alleged phenomenon as it pertains to China.<\/p>\n<p>Nine out of the ten most polluted cities in the world last year, in terms of air quality, were located in India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2020, India had 46 of the world\u2019s 100 most polluted cities, followed by China (42), Pakistan (6), Bangladesh (4), Indonesia (1), and Thailand (1),\u201d Al Jazeera <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/11\/22\/infographic-the-worlds-100-most-polluted-cities-interactive\">reported<\/a> on November 22 citing IQAir data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll these cities had a PM2.5 air-quality rating of more than 50,\u201d Al Jazeera noted.<\/p>\n<p>Ghaziabad, India, ranked as the world\u2019s number two most polluted city in the world in 2020 averaging a PM2.5 rating of 106.6. Delhi, India, rounded out the top ten smoggiest cities in 2020 according to the&nbsp;IQAir tracker with an average&nbsp;PM2.5 output of 84.1.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Delhi serves as India\u2019s National Capital Territory (NCT). The densely populated urban center is home to nearly 32 million people. Delhi endures constant smog from heavy factory and vehicle emissions. The capital battles seasonal upticks in air pollution each winter when agricultural fires in the region exacerbate the city\u2019s smog. Delhi was forced to order all schools in the metropolis to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/16\/air-pollution-forces-delhi-india-shut-schools-one-week\/\">close<\/a> for a week from November 15 through November 22 due to worse than usual air pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi\u2019s Air Quality Index (AQI), which measures PM2.5 in the atmosphere, \u201chit 470-499 on a scale of 500\u201d in recent days, Asian News International (ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qgT7A_rdetM\">reported<\/a> on November 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s northwestern city of Hotan recorded \u201cthe worst average air quality\u201d in the world in 2020, India\u2019s Business Standard newspaper reported Tuesday citing data from the air quality tracker IQAir. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}