又是整整的2个星期了， 天空没有一天晴朗，能见度仅是数百米之远。如果是几年前，我会天真的认为这是雾，这是阴天，但如今，绝对不会了。现在我们面临的生态环境，让我完完全全对人类的适应能力折服。现在北京的污染状况（且不谈中国其他地区的空气和江河湖泊的污染）已经到了如此严重的程度，却从媒体中听不到任何的解释，政府彻底剥夺了人民的知情权。就算要用隐瞒和沉默来保持社会的稳定，但至少应该教育蒙在鼓里的老百姓们应该如何保护自己。可怜的人民，不求你救，但求知道如何自救。我每天都要嘱咐爸妈，千万不要到室外运动，我会时常给他们警惕这样的天气做室外运动会导致呼吸道感染，直接会影响心肺功能。我不是医生，说法也不一定正确，但我却清楚的是，如此的天气是可怕的，甚至是致命的，尤其是对儿童和老人而言。污染不可怕，但还没有意识到严重性的人才可怕，现在有太多太多的老百姓们，对此麻木不仁，甚至还悠哉悠哉。每每出家门看到那些还在晨练的大叔大妈们，多想很简单很简单的告诉他们不能在这样的空气中运动的道理。可是自己的力量又能有多大？水果蔬菜有农药，我们可以削皮吃，外边餐厅的饮食卫生颇让人堪忧，我们可以选择不吃，我们可以买最好质量的水代替自来水的细菌严重超标…可是，空气呢，这个人类赖以生存的物质，我们不呼吸可以吗？ 也许我们每天的生活中经历的斗争，抱怨，欺骗太多太多了。 面对这些, 确实心力交瘁, 疲惫不堪了.

我完全理解现在中国面临的阶段，正是因为这种必经的经济工业大发展时期，人民所付出了如此惨痛和沉重的代价。 可这些代价，只有老百姓自己担， 苦水，也只有老百姓自己往肚子里咽了。现在的北京，只不过是60年前的雾都伦敦，77年的美国洛杉矶，用这样的借口也许可以让自己舒服些。

奥运临近，政府好像又出台了一些治理交通和空气质量的办法，我绝对的百分之一千的相信中国政府有这个能力办好一次风风光光的奥运盛会。可这治标不治本的手段也许会给中国带来暂时的荣耀，虚假的繁荣，可以有长久的发展和改善吗？世界人民的眼睛没有睡眠.

现在中国在世界的地位日益增长，是经济发展带来的结果，也正是这种经济的“繁荣”掩盖了太多应该让人民去争取和自醒的东西。有人说，中国将是下一个大国崛起，但我只能在摇头的同时，告诉每一个人我的想法： 一个真正的大国和强国，是需要有一个发达的经济基础，进步的政治制度，文明的文化底蕴和强大的民族凝聚力。缺一不可.

（以下的文章转载于金融时报，亚洲版。且不去追究所示数字是否精准，只希望能看到这篇文章的人知晓还有第二个声音的存在）。

 摄于：7/8/2007

750，000 a year killed by Chinese pollution

Financial Times

Asia, Tuesday July 3, 2007

Beijing engineered the removal of nearly a third of a World Bank report on pollution in China because of concerns that findings on premature deaths could provoke "social unrest".

The report, produced in cooperation with Chinese government ministries over several years, found about 750,000 people die prematurely in China each year, mainly from air pollution in large cities.

China's State Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and health ministry asked the World Bank to cut the calculations of premature deaths from the report when a draft was finished last year, according to Bank advisers and Chinese officials.

Advisers to the research team said ministries told them said ministries told them this information, including a detailed map showing which parts of the country suffered the most deaths, was too sensitive.

Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China, according to previous World Bank Research. Guo Xiaomin, a retired SEPA official who co-ordinate the Chinese research team, said some materials was omitted from the pollution report because of concerns that the methodology was unreliable. But he also said such information on premature deaths "could cause misunderstanding".

The pared-down report, "cost of pollution in China", has yet to be officially launched but a version , which can be downloaded from the internet was released at a conference in Beijing in March.

Missing from this report are the research project's findings that high air-pollution levels in Chinese cities is leading to the premature deaths of 350,000-400,000 people each year. A further 300,000 people die prematurely each year from exposure to poor air indoors, according to advisers, but little discussion of this issue survived in the report because it was outside the ambit of the Chinese ministries which sponsored the research.

Another 60,000-odd premature deaths were attributable to poor-quality water, largely in the countryside, from severe diarrhoea, and stomach, liver and bladder cancers.

The mortality information was "reluctantly" excised by the World Bank from the published report, according to advisers to the research project.

SEPA and the health ministry declined to comment. The World Bank said that the findings of the report were still being discussed with the government.

A spokesperson said: " The conference version of the report did not include some of the issues still under discussion. " She said the findings of the report were due to be released as a series of papers soon.