Can’t have these sunsets without that smog?

As you know, Bob, Hong Kong, which has next to nil industry in this day and age, is plagued by smog resulting primarily from manufacturing and manufacturing-related activities in the greater Pearl River Delta region.

What’s that? You reside in this part of the world and can afford to run HEPA-grade air purifiers, but don’t? You’re nevertheless confident that your chronic sinusitis, dry cough, and other respiratory system problems are completely unrelated to the ambient air quality? That’s fine, Bob.

if one were pressed to identify even an iota of upside to the egregious air pollution, HK’s sometimes-spectacular sunsets might spring to mind. Apparently, however, that’s dead wrong and beautiful sunsets occur in spite rather than because of human-generated-aerosols.

At any rate, the sky and sea look only slightly more fuchsia-tinged in the photo above than they appeared to my naked eyeballs when I snapped that picture on Monday evening.