Winter aq in Delhi is so bad that every year I go there for winter break I get violently sick.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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It's incredible many Chinese cities used to be on that top 10 list, they've come a long way.
if Delhi is so great, why isn't there a New Delhi?
Well actually...
I'm seeing the color gradient go from orange to red and then I read the numbers and understand that the scale was not supposed to go this high. This is terrifying. This scale was designed to make Sarajevo look like an emergency.
"Hey Boss, what color should we use to indicate that one city is literally 5x the next worst?"
'Uh...I guess just use the color and opacity of the air itself at that point'
what the fuck is sarajevo cooking they are not a large city
Tires,most likely
herzegovina tyres built different. built to disintegrate
actually tho belograd also being on there its probably something about the valleys and local weather in the balkans rn?
Yeah its in a big valley iirc, like a bowl. There's footage of the shelling of the city during the war where they had artillery more or less pointing directly at shit below them instead of lobbing shots into the air. Indirect fire becoming direct fire.
A few years back it once hit 500 where I live cause of wildfires. The smoke was blocking the sun giving the sky a spooky orange glow. There were warnings not to go outside, and the air would give me terrible headaches. I had to abandon my apartment because it was seeping through the cracks and I'd wake up sick (actually my first time living with my bf, cute). Air filters sold out everywhere and we had to make due with wet towels.
All that to say, how tf you still alive?
(Passed 2k in that place)
Didn't even see the sun today 💀.
All that to say, how tf you still alive?
I'm kind of dying because the pollution has made my bronchitis go crazy and I legit have trouble breathing.
I visit during Diwali and my eyes start watering. I dont know how i lived there for years
I heard once that it gets so bad in November in large part due to farmers in Punjab and such clearing their fields by burning the dead crops on it, something like that. Is that true?
Yeah that's a huge contributor. Agriculture in Punjab specifically is very inefficient and held back by ancient agriculture practices.
Heard it was some seed issue by the govt and a corp that changed the burn time
hey, selling gasoline powered cars and scooters increases the GDP. who cares if you get lung cancer. 
lung cancer increases the GDP
Everything about India sounds so miserable, like imagine if they went communist like the Chinese did.
Can you share any good or promising things about India? What I can see from social media seems very bleak.
imagine if they went communist like the Chinese did
They were Soviet Aligned for most of the Cold War. But the division between Hindus and Muslims eventually created a wedge that western capital could leverage to break the leftist tendencies of the earlier governments, ending with Chaudhary Charan Singh. By the 80s, they'd begun a full transition to neoliberal governance.
iirc kerala is pretty cool, they regularly elect marxist communists and while it's not a socialist state by any means, they've done good things working in the confines of the liberal framework with stuff like the highest minimum wage in india and a strong protest scene
Kerala is run by a Communist Party and they're the most literate state in India. Plus communal harmony is also the best in Kerala.
And their maternal mortality rate is lower than it is in many U.S. states (Georgia, Texas, etc.)
Lmao us dont be evil and bad challenge
Kerala has done decently well.
The current govt has aimed at eradicating extreme poverty from Kerala by the end of the next year.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kerala-rolls-out-plan-to-eradicate-extreme-poverty-by-2025-2422621-2023-08-17
It may not be according to Western standards, but it's still a very cool initiative.
There's also the Nava Kerala mission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nava_Kerala_Mission
Nava means New in Malayalam, the main language used in Kerala.
Kerala is unironically the best state of India and unbelievably based
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When it gets that bad, can you climb the smog like cloud platforms in video games?
I literally do asbestos abatement and I'm thinking I'm not going to go to India without my whole suit.
Stay safe comrade
How can you see your screen?
Have to blow away the smog with my hands first.
Holy shit, stay safe comrade.
I'm sorry, I was thinking this was some sort of weird IQ thing and was about to roll my eyes. But its actually Air Quality Index, which leaves me feeling incredibly sad.
On the plus side, air this bad tends to produce popular backlash that states can't easily ignore. From LA to Beijing, we've seen huge reversals in air quality in the face of widespread public demand for breathable air. A good foundation for a next generation environmental movement is putting several million people into an industrial smoker and telling them to politics their way out.
On the plus side, air this bad tends to produce popular backlash that states can't easily ignore.
This is India not China or the US. Most people don't give a shit. The government doesn't give a shit either. Plus the small minority that gives a shit will be labeled as terrorists if they protest against the current Hindutva Fascist government hence ruining their lives as they rot in Jail for decades without trial.
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