In numbers: How Beijing cleaned up its air theprogressplaybook.com/2025/05/12/i...
In numbers: How Beijing cleaned up its air theprogressplaybook.com/2025/05/12/i...
👍⚡️🎰🌱 “… local authorities instituted a city-wide lottery on license plates for anyone that wanted to purchase a new fossil fuel-burning car (…) Those wishing to buy an electric car, however, were able to obtain a plate more easily, encouraging citizens to switch to cleaner modes of transport.”
anecdote: We got a souvenir book for a large town we visited there, and the photos of the skyline looked very odd. They had 'shopped in a blue sky. You could still see at the edges where they missed some of the real sky. If they can clean that up, we could do a whole lot more than we are doing!
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