Bonkers first law of compromise - air quality

Air quality is the hottest topic after money, property, cars, shoes and handbags and whatever else you can do with money.

There's a couple of ways you can look at this image of Hong Kong. One as a photo of the Star ferry crossing from Central to TsimTsa Tsui in the hazy dusk, full of punters reflecting as the sun sets on another brilliant day of commerce in the big little city. The other way to look at this is as a ferry floats on the water pushing its way through the thick poluted haze of noxious 'god-knows-what' blowing over from mainland China. Better keep the kids indoors and put on the gas mask on cause it can't be doing you any good.

In hong Kong the Bonkers first law of compromise is, you can whinge about the air quality but that polution aint going away in a hurry, so get used to it. You can get lucky and it will rain, or a good stiff southerly breeze blow the muck back into China.

Loads of people are lobbying the Government to put pressure on China to clean up and the Pearl River Delta officals are saying they will clean up. Let's hope this happens sooner rather than later.

Some expats have actually gone bonkers over the air polution and packed up their kit and move to somewhere else, maybe to Singapore, where they find out later that Indonesia blocks their sky view while they burn forest for 2-3 months of the year.

I like this photo which was taken from another ferry crossing in the opposite direction to this ferry.