Organic Polutants and Pesticides (in Beijing)

Living in Beijing China, I am incredibly aware of pollution; I am sure we all are, and that we all hate it, but when one thinks about it, one must come to grips with a sense of self enlightenment and try to understand why exactly the pollution is at such an extreme level.
Despite much anticipation and excitement over the topic of discovering and colonising other inhabitable planets, so far that section of science has been nothing but disappointing. …