I was in Delhi a few years ago during this time of the year.
It is hard to describe how bad it is.
If you are smoking a cigarette with a filter, that is less pollution going into your lungs than breathing the air in Delhi.
If you didn’t read the article, the biggest source of smoke there is the burning of rice stubble in the neighboring state to prepare the fields for the next crop. The framers have repeatedly ignored all pleases over the years to avoid this.
Still only 1/4 of it through.
It’ll take more than just addressing stubble burning to get this under control
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Schools closed in New Delhi on Friday, while some diesel-burning vehicles were ordered off the roads and much of the city’s incessant construction was halted, as the authorities tried to mitigate the effects of a thick haze of pollution that has descended on India’s capital, a calamity that has come to be an annual blight.
“Breathing becomes heavy and long,” said Ram Kumar, a 30-year-old from the city of Gorakhpur, in the more rural north of India, who supports his family back home by driving an auto-rickshaw in New Delhi.
In health terms, the deadliest pollution contains the finest matter; regularly breathing air contaminated with those tiniest of particles has been linked to cancer, diabetes and other life-shortening conditions.
In June, during Canada’s worst-ever wildfire season, New York saw its skies turn orange from the smoke that wafted over, with residents suffering from that type of pollution at a concentration of about 117 micrograms per cubic meter.
The authorities in Punjab may be reluctant to crack down on the farmers to avoid alienating an important voting bloc, while those in New Delhi have had little success in tackling urban pollution, especially from vehicles.
With the number of lives affected, he said, the dreadful air quality “needs to be called the public health emergency that it is.” He denounced some of the city’s official efforts, such as dampening the dust on streets to try to keep it stuck to the pavement, as woefully inadequate.
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