スモッグと放射能に満たされた、地上の楽園の姿は『ジュールベルヌ』他の近未来の小説家によって、数限りなく書き著されているが、今、まさにその某国に、理想社会が目の前に実現されている。
日本という国は、地続きの外国の脅威が無いせいで、そう云う事情には疎い感じもするが、そういう環境が悪化した国では、より環境の良いところに、力で入り込もうとする、或は入り込まざるを得ないと云う思い込みによって、国民全体が『レミングの狂気』のような行動に、走り出す危険性は否めない。
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＊＊＊ Mail Online １月１８日付 ＊＊＊
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540955/Beijing-clouded-smog-way-sunrise-watch-giant-commercial-screens-Tiananmen-Square.html
ー Televising the sunrise on giant TV screens ー
The smog has become so thick in Beijing that the city's natural light-starved masses have begun flocking to huge digital commercial television screens across the city to observe virtual sunrises.
The futuristic screens installed in the Chinese capital usually advertize tourist destinations, but as the season's first wave of extremely dangerous smog hit - residents donned air masks and left their homes to watch the only place where the sun would hail over the horizon that morning.
Commuters across Beijing found themselves cloaked in a thick, gray haze on Thursday as air pollution monitors issued a severe air warning and ordered the elderly and school children to stay indoors until the quality improved.
The air took on an acrid odor, and many of the city's commuters wore industrial strength face masks as they hurried to work.
'I couldn't see the tall buildings across the street this morning,' said a traffic coordinator at a busy Beijing intersection who gave only his surname, Zhang. 'The smog has gotten worse in the last two to three years. I often cough, and my nose is always irritated. But what can you do? I drink more water to help my body discharge the toxins.'
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