New Delhi Pollution Hits Five-Year High (semafor.com) 16
Air pollution in New Delhi hit a five-year high this week, as Diwali fireworks combined with farming fires to shroud the city in a toxic haze. From a report: The annual spike has become something of a tradition in the megalopolis, with some parts of the city this week recording an air-quality index reading of 1,800 -- 20 times higher than levels the World Health Organization deems healthy. The news points to the challenge facing Indian authorities as they look to combat pollution and cut carbon emissions: The country has made huge progress in deploying renewable energy, but will still need up to $21 trillion in new investments in order to meet its 2070 net-zero target, according to government plans reported by Bloomberg.
And this is news why? (Score:2, Insightful)
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Think about it.
Have you thought about it yet?
The statement means exactly nothing. At some point in any given 5 year time there will always be a "this is the most/highest/greatest ______ of the last five years". By itself it's a meaningless metric without knowing is the trend generally (by that meaning over a longer period) rising or falling. It doesn't have to be a "every five years" statement for the statement to be inherently periodic without more data.
By definition it happens every five years.
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I was thinking where can I buy 5-year high weed?
Re: And this is news why? (Score:2)
Yeah, but not the old Delhi.
Urban redevelopment (Score:3)
They need to build alternate housing neighborhood by neighborhood and demolish these. And yes some of the people will have to be forced into new housing buildings. A majority will accept new housing if it is not far from the existing slum and built before they are move out. It will take a decade-plus but they need to do it -- the longer they delay the harder it will be. It's not impossible. China did it. Anyone who visited Hong Kong in the 80s, remembers the walled city in Kowloon? I dunno what they did but when I went back in the 2000s for some business it no longer existed. It was like not there. vanished. It was never near as filthy as Indian slums but I'm sure it was more densely packed. Oh yeah, India also needs campaigns on good hygiene, like to use utensils when handling food, fear of germs etc.
Re:Urban redevelopment (Score:5, Informative)
They need to build alternate housing neighborhood by neighborhood and demolish these. And yes some of the people will have to be forced into new housing buildings.
Not sure how that will help decrease pollution that is generated from farmers burning the crop residue in their fields to plant the next year's crop.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a... [nih.gov]
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If they decreased their population by tens of millions of people, I'm certain the pollution level would also decrease.
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They had the same approximately levels of pollution 20 years ago when the population was not just tens of millions less but two hundred million less. I mean, this is a 5 year high, which means five years ago .. when the population was actually 10s of millions less .. they had the same pollution.
Delphi pollution? (Score:2)
...just switch to Lazarus, it has better garbage collection.
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Oh, such problems ARE fixable. The issue is that people find the solutions unacceptable.