President Moon Calls for Doing Something About Fine Dust Pollution
This reeks of “were doing something” when the Moon administration knows as long as China continues to pump out pollution there is really nothing they can do:
President Moon Jae-in ordered the government on Tuesday to take extraordinary measures to fight fine dust pollution that has choked the country for days.
Yonhap
Moon received an urgent briefing from Environment Minister Cho Myung-rae on particulate matter problems for about 50 minutes, a presidential spokesman said.
Moon called for interagency efforts to curb the pollution and reduce damage, including the installation of high-capacity air purifiers in more daycare centers and schools.
“The government should respond immediately, rather than clinging to long-term responses, to people’s demand when it explosively increases,” he was quoted as saying by spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom.
You can read more at the link, but the measures include having more government meetings to discuss the problem and asking China to please stop polluting. Good luck with that.
Commie Moon should go and beg Emperor Xi.
Doing “something” is probably forcing Korean citizens to reduce lifestyle quality through programs like restricted driving and more energy taxes…
…while China laughs.
Same as leftist programs in America.
He’s getting advice from an environmental minister who caused a national controversy for claiming that the pollution isn’t coming from China, it’s a result of the unusual weather pattern.
These are the types of idiots that Moon has surrounded himself with. Good luck getting any real picture of what’s going on. This government is so out of touch with the people and with reality. There’s no way they’re going to say anything to China to upset China’s pride.
I’m quite sure Moon’s ancestry has Chinese blood. Otherwise, why does he constantly play up China’s might and kiss their feet?
South Korea continues to receive exactly what they voted to receive.
I still feel sorry for them, because self-inflicted wounds really bite.
The perfect government answer to anything:
Assemble a committee, divide into Tiger Teams, assemble/nominate solutions, develop mitigation plans, visibly reach out to the public, build a website, elicit input, write weekly activity reports, quarterly reports, show metrics on how you’re progressing. Have more people on your marketing and communications team than real engineers and operators.
Project the appearance that the issue (we don’t have problems anymore, everything is an “issue” or a “challenge”) is being aggressively tackled…all the while not a damn thing is being done about the problem.
But the government is doing something.