China new smog plan: fight pollution with pollution

After announcing a resolution to put an absolute cap on carbon emissions earlier this month, China now seems to have discarded this method of abstention in favor of a less conventional (some might even say illogical) approach…

China’s newest line of attack is to add more chemicals to their carbon cocktail by sending out para-foil drones to release chemicals that will allow air pollutants to fall to the ground. 

The para-foil drone: the newest recruit in China's fight against pollution

Some other solutions:

• Giant bubbles could be the answer to Beijing's smog problem.
• Giant water canons pulverize smog in Lanzhou
• Chinese cities to use 'wind corridors' to blow away smog

Each drone will be capable of tackling a 3.1 mile radius, which is reportedly exact area needed to successfully ‘clean’ the air around an airport, making room for outgoing flight emissions.

Premier Li Keqiang has said that these new efforts show that the government is “declaring war” on pollution, but with little being known about the effect that this polluted precipitation might have on the Chinese people, we are left to question whether more chemicals are really the answer.

Is this toxic fix our miracle cure of just further aggravation?

China's newest toxic fix