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Please don't conflate carbon emissions with air quality. Poor air quality (as measured by AQI) is not caused by high CO2 emissions, even if there's a correlatio
by qolop 5y ago
Please don't conflate carbon emissions with air quality. Poor air quality (as measured by AQI) is not caused by high CO2 emissions, even if there's a correlation.
Indian cities do have an air quality problem, but there are other factors at play here. The most densely populated cities in India are landlocked, which means very little wind and no way for suspended particles to disperse. This coupled with practices like crop-burning are what cause "pollution". It has nothing to do with carbon emissions. India doesn't even come close to the per capita carbon emissions of a country like the United States.