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Those electric 2, 3 and 4 wheelers and electric busses even if powered by coal fired electricity, will do less damage to city dwelling kids lungs than tradition
by ZeroGravitas 2mo ago
Those electric 2, 3 and 4 wheelers and electric busses even if powered by coal fired electricity, will do less damage to city dwelling kids lungs than traditional engines would.
And if the trend of China cleaning up their electricity supply continues (they just slipped under 50% coal) then even existing EVs will get cleaner every year with less pollution created at distant powerplants.
- ShinyLeftPad 2mo agoPollution map don't lie... and what about kids who live near plants
- codecutter 2mo agoLet's not compare Delhi or Mumbai in monsoon season. Get the readings from Delhi in summer or winter and then see the pollution yourself.
- ShinyLeftPad 2mo agoMeanwhile I was replying to a comment that just cherry-picked a day. Yes, autumn is the brief good time in Beijing due to prevailing winds, shrug.
- ZeroGravitas 2mo agoCherry picking a single day to try to demonstrate a widely accepted trend is lazy journalism. Cherry-picking to try to portray the opposite of the generally accepted truth is much more problematic.
- ShinyLeftPad 2mo agoI agree. Some guy picks some specific a day in the past, says "look China good". Another one picks a random day (today) and it paints a diff picture. Meanwhile generally accepted truth rooted in facts is the number of coal plants and generally policies that put manufacturing first. individuals using EVs don't make a dent
- thelastgallon 2mo agoGlad to hear Delhi solved its air pollution by doing nothing. Delhi's success stody is being studied by experts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution_in_Delhi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution_in_Delhi
- ShinyLeftPad 2mo agoI didn't say Delhi solved pollution, I said Beijing didn't