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[quote]A thick cloud of smog has overwhelmed the Indian capital over the past few days, prompting officials to shut down more than 6,000 schools for nearly a week.
The city's air quality is off the charts. The Air Quality Index (AQI) was over 999 in some parts of the capital -- that's almost 30 times the safe limits set by the World Health Organization and 10 times more polluted than Beijing, the city infamous for air pollution.
PM 2.5 particles, which are small enough to settle inside your lungs and cause severe respiratory diseases, peaked above 700 micrograms per cubic meter. At this level, not just children and elderly, but everyone is warned to remain indoors. The WHO safe limit is 60.
Many New Delhi residents are complaining of respiratory problems and headaches. The low visibility has delayed flights, trains and caused highway pileups.
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"The air tastes like smoke. I have a constant irritation in my throat," Rakesh Kumar, 45, tells CBS News.
People have been advised to avoid outdoor activity in the early morning and late evening, when the pollution is at its worst. A government advisory urged small children, the elderly, pregnant women and asthma and heart patients to use masks if they go outdoors.
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I'm not sure anyone expected otherwise.
It's Delhi.
India has so many problems with pollution nobody knows where to even begin, and it isn't just from smog, but also their living conditions and how they do sewage.
Their third leading cause of death is [url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/health/the-top-10-causes-of-death-in-india/story-lFLxCFVHmF7svw2RKCl70K.html]Diarrohea[/url] of all things. A million people dead every year to this shit.
am i reading it wrong or is this something that just happened? what could have caused this to happen "over the past few days"?
[QUOTE=WrathOfCat;52873048]am i reading it wrong or is this something that just happened? what could have caused this to happen "over the past few days"?[/QUOTE]
A bad case of diarrohea making its rounds, likely.
Yeah, shit's pretty bad over there right now - apparently, crop burning (something that happens regularly, every year) in the neighboring states of Punjab and Haryana haven't helped matters much.
[QUOTE=DiBBs27;52872819]I'm not sure anyone expected otherwise.
It's Delhi.[/QUOTE]
Well Mumbai could be considered worse, living in Mumbai is like smoking 100 cigarettes a day, every day.
[QUOTE=Tudd;52872986]India has so many problems with pollution nobody knows where to even begin, and it isn't just from smog, but also their living conditions and how they do sewage.
Their third leading cause of death is [url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/health/the-top-10-causes-of-death-in-india/story-lFLxCFVHmF7svw2RKCl70K.html]Diarrohea[/url] of all things. A million people dead every year to this shit.[/QUOTE]
Don't forget the pharma companies, literally every single one, even the ones claiming to properly dispose of their shit, are just dumping their stuff somewhere; they're breeding antibiotic resistant bacteria like there's no tomorrow!
[QUOTE=PotatoTwo;52874462]Don't forget the pharma companies, literally every single one, even the ones claiming to properly dispose of their shit, are just dumping there stuff somewhere; they're breeding antibiotic resistant bacteria like there's no tomorrow![/QUOTE]
And to think people bath in the Ganges. Sure it might have been before, but now? Common sense needs to come into play. It's ruining everything for everyone, especially the most vulnerable creatures in regions
I feel bad for the Indians. All the families that didn't ask for this shit, but politicians just keep 'overlooking' the problem.
[QUOTE=WrathOfCat;52873048]am i reading it wrong or is this something that just happened? what could have caused this to happen "over the past few days"?[/QUOTE]
Interestingly enough, smog sometimes comes and goes like weather and can flare up or calm down depending on a lot of factors. This time of year (November-February) is when the smog is worst in India in general, but sometimes the right things happen in the right places to make it extremely bad.
[QUOTE=joshthesmith;52874474]And to think people bath in the Ganges. Sure it might have been before, but now? Common sense needs to come into play. It's ruining everything for everyone, especially the most vulnerable creatures in regions[/QUOTE]
There are a lot of campaigns for clean water going on right now. It's not so much that the people aren't aware, but that there's not much stopping anyone from making it worse. Plus the further upriver you get, especially closer to the Himalayas, it's still somewhat clean
don't know all the causes of this, but I do know crop burning contributes pretty largely to it - my grandfather being one of the many farmers in Punjab culpable for it. Many farmers in North India are forced to do so as the government refuses to help subsidize the cost for them, and being involved in agriculture is already a struggle as many farmers are committing suicide and barely making ends meet
amongst all the already existing problems with pollution they face of course
crop burning/land clearing is a massive cause of an excess of carbon in the atmosphere. grass and other plants store massive amounts of carbon, burning it releases that carbon and leaves the soil bare meaning it can't hold water or carbon any where near as well.
factories and petrol cars cause a lot of excess carbon, but lands turning into desert isn't a direct contribution but rather a natural lack of that carbon control. recently watched a ted talk about restoring desert and making into farmable land again.
don't know how much of this contributes to the problem in india, but i suspect a lot of large cities are seeing such large amounts of carbon in the atmosphere due to the amount released in a small area with natural ways of handling the carbon not being sufficient to offset the total, so it snowballs.
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could do a lot of good work educating and helping farmers with modern farming techniques, not only would reduce pollution but also increase the wealth in small, poor farming communities.
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