Winter is tough in Asia, our Air Quality Index regularly cracks the 300 mark. Top 3 world-wide for #Hanoi. How do you even grasp the consequences?

We have a remarkably privileged apartment and put a lot of effort into sealing and air purification. It creeps in quickly nonetheless. And a decade of coal expansion lies in front of residents here, and to the north, and to the West.

#airpollution #climate

AQICN map of northern central Hanoi. You see pins with Air Quality numbers and corresponding alarm colours. It's between 200 and in some places going well beyond 300. Purple and brown. Very unhealthy and hazardous.