Beijing residents "not amused" by air quality

Beijing air by James Fallow

The Beijing Olympics are less than a year ahead and that is cause some increased migration to the country's capital. A whole bunch of people actually left Shanghai to attend this historic event as a resident. But while there is nothing wrong with Beijing as a city, the complaints about the air quality are pretty dominant in their stories.
Author and journalist James Fallow is one of this recent arrivals, promising today he would leave the subject of the air pollution for the time being. But he and others have serious misgivings about Beijing's ability to clean up its act on time before the Olympics in 2008.
They are not alone. Also long term resident Gilbert van Kerkhove, advising the municipal government on the Olympics, in his blog notes that for everybody involved it is now "fasten seatbelts".