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E.g., China - 100km2, India 500km2 (making up numbers), rather than list 300 cities from each country as nearly equal pollution?
Anyone knows what the major source of pollution in Indian cities is? My guess would be automobile but I'd like it to be confirmed or denied.
Automobiles (including highly polluting two-stroke rickshaws and motorbikes), coal-fired power plants, industrial emissions, domestic cooking fires, and agricultural burn-offs.
In a world where individualism and short term profit is valued above all. What do you think happens when we buy asian gadgets on amazon with same day delivery, mindless pollution, from the first step to the last. Go out, and look at the streets, hundreds of cars with (90% of the time) a single person in it. Moving 2 tons of steel for a 80 kilos meatbag, now that's efficiency. We could almost ignore that if it wasn't…
The problem is externalities. Not convenience.
All of the US cities in the North America top 50 are rural CA cities. I have to assume that their over all badness last year was due to the fires.
All of the US cities in the North America top 50 are rural CA cities. I have to assume that their over all badness last year was due to the fires.
In a world where individualism and short term profit is valued above all. What do you think happens when we buy asian gadgets on amazon with same day delivery, mindless pollution, from the first step to the last. Go out, and look at the streets, hundreds of cars with (90% of the time) a single person in it. Moving 2 tons of steel for a 80 kilos meatbag, now that's efficiency. We could almost ignore that if it wasn't…
And the irony is that the people who have kids tend to be the ones who care the least about these things (whether because for them it's much harder to do anything about it or because they are ignorant). Talk about loving kids.
How widely known is it that Indian cities are so polluted? I feel like I only hear about pollution in Chinese cities. I feel like the fact that this is dominated by Indian cities would come as a surprise to many.
Anyone knows what the major source of pollution in Indian cities is? My guess would be automobile but I'd like it to be confirmed or denied.
My guess is manufacturing plants and burning of farm fields. Reason is i am not seeing other big cities like shanghai/Bombay etc. which would have comparable number of automobiles but smaller cities which are known to have big factories.
I was fascinated to see how low New York was. Given the immense amount of car traffic, anyone have an idea as to why its so low?
In late summer, air quality drops quite a bit as the wind drops off.
In a world where individualism and short term profit is valued above all. What do you think happens when we buy asian gadgets on amazon with same day delivery, mindless pollution, from the first step to the last. Go out, and look at the streets, hundreds of cars with (90% of the time) a single person in it. Moving 2 tons of steel for a 80 kilos meatbag, now that's efficiency. We could almost ignore that if it wasn't…
And the irony is that the people who have kids tend to be the ones who care the least about these things (whether because for them it's much harder to do anything about it or because they are ignorant). Talk about loving kids.
You can take personal steps to reduce your footprint sure, but as long as the leaders play their "economical growth at all cost" game we're doomed to fail.