Current Events II

The city I lived before Prague and probably will live in the future to flourish it, is Ulaanbaatar, my capital. In recent years UB was considered one of the most air-polluted cities in the world during winter time (from November till February). It hugely affected citizens’ health conditions, kids’ immune systems, even became hard to give birth and raise a child in this condition. As a Mongolian girl, I was disappointed.

Nevertheless, and thankfully, from this year UB has left the “most polluted capital city” list. According to news, our capital is now placed among cities, such as Osaka (Japan) and Vancouver (Canada)! Even though UB was in the first places as the most polluted, now it has moved to 64th place on air quality (Aki Press, 2019).

This was a huge improvement, moreover, it was the greatest news ever in the last years! Not only to me but to all our citizens. In reality, many years have spent just to live in a healthy, non-polluted condition. And I, personally, was proud of this improvement.

However, there is always negativity and judgment in every single positivity. Specifically, this news was published in October. I read many comments and saw how many of us reflected on this. There were many people that could not believe. There were also many people who just could not accept this good news. For instance, judgmental comments stated that the winter has not come yet, therefore it is wrong to conclude that smog has really gone.

From one point of view, we can think that it may be really early to finalize the process. Maybe smog will appear again in the mid of November, who knows. But from another point of view, why not to stay positive and hope that we really got rid of the most dangerous thing?

I really wanted people to stay happy and appreciative to this amazing improvement. And especially “influencers” should spread positivity to their audience in order to influence their minds. However, I saw some influencers were showing the same judgment as others.

When sharing a post or commenting on a post they really should think about consequences. They should be aware of their audience and after effect. Some of those did not seem controlling their public posts regarding national news. However, I saw they are being really controllable of themselves when involved in fashion industry (advertisement, products, sales, coupons, etc). But when comparing our influencers to other country’s influencers, there is a huge gap. I will describe it in the next post.

References

Aki Press, 2019. https://m.akipress.com/news:628527:Ulaanbaatar_improves_its_position_in_most_polluted_cities_ranking/?fbclid=IwAR0t2BLm9jVit9tfJ3SPJfNp5en0MuJ5uCekSufzmvQ01Uz3wmbiZsB46vU