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That satellite image of the haze is scary. Scarier still is how the deterioration of air quality in the cities is affecting health. (The WHO estimates ~15 milli
by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
That satellite image of the haze is scary. Scarier still is how the deterioration of air quality in the cities is affecting health. (The WHO estimates ~15 million bronchial asthma patients in India.)
You haven't experienced air pollution if you haven't breathed in the evening air in Mumbai or Bangalore during the rush hour.
- at-fates-hands 10y ago>> You haven't experienced air pollution if you haven't breathed in the evening air in Mumbai or Bangalore during the rush hour. Economically, it may be a good sign that 1,400 new cars are added to Delhi's vehicle population every day. According to the Centre for Science and Environment, the number of passenger cars in Delhi has gone up from around 75,000 in 2005-06 to more than half a million today. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/40-of-vehicles-eat-up-road-space/articleshow/49019264.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/40-of-vehicles... The pollution makes sense when you start to understand how many cars they are putting on the roads every day with no sign of letting up. They have recently said they want the whole country to have nothing but electric cars by 2030.
- HenryTheHorse 10y ago>...how many cars they are putting on the roads every day That, and the fact that abysmal city planning has created unhealthy environments, such as locating chemical plants in suburban Mumbai, where a massive population resides. Bhopal was a one-time disaster. But the cities of India are a continuous, on-going, everyday disaster.
- 1_2__3 10y agoTake every car off the road and those satellite images look almost exactly the same.
- nukeu666 10y agoYou haven't experienced air pollution until Diwali night in a metro
- sswaner 10y agoOr Independence Day in Texas.
- jschwartzi 10y agoThank god for the US EPA.
- kuschku 10y agoAnd that’s why environmental regulation – and other regulations dealing with external factors – are so important, and why treaties that try to prevent that are dangerous.
- tenkabuto 10y agoThey're useful trailblazers, but I'd love to see more free-market solutions tried and developed.
- evgen 10y agoWhy don't you start with a simple demonstration or example of the free-market working for any public good.
- antisthenes 10y agoThe free market solution to environmental issues has always been "dump it right here", because it completely ignores externalities. You'd have to be insane to even consider that it could be otherwise.
- tenkabuto 10y agoThat it always has been some way does not mean that it cannot be otherwise.
- enraged_camel 10y agoWhat does that even mean? Do you have any examples where the so-called free market has successfully solved this problem?
- almostApatriot1 10y agothere's absolutely no incentive in the free market to care about pollution.
- stillworks 10y agoCan't decide whether it's ironic,sad or just plain unfortunate. The WHO offices in New Delhi are on the banks of a sewage drain running foul. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/28%C2%B037'19.2%22N+77%C2%B014'49.3%22E/@28.6220122,77.2464908,180m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d28.622011!4d77.247038 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/28%C2%B037'19.2%22N+77%C...