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image of a person happy-crying with the text: me when my city’s AQI is “unhealthy” and not “dangerous”

on the bottom is a screenshot of a weather app showing AQI of 110 and labeled unhealthy

  • Alteon@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    How are people living like that daily? How do they all swim in that crazy polluted river? How are billions of them over there not getting crazy amounts of cancer?

    • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      Millions, not billions. India’s total population is around 1.4 billion, according to the older census, and by now, it’s somewhere around 1.7 billion.

      Delhi and neighboring areas have garbage infrastructure, too much population density, high levels of corruption and lawlessness. Punjab is directly to blame for Delhi’s pollution - stubble burning is the reason for high levels of pollution. If you go back in history, mono-culture ruined Punjab.