Of the 10 cities in the world with the worst air quality, India has 7 of them
says that outdoor air pollution is the fourth leading contributing cause of early deaths, with a cost estimate of $225 billion.
India, we know you’re in there somewhere. A morning haze envelops the skyline of New Delhi on October 18, 2018. Out of the roughly 3000 cities included, 64% exceeded the WHO’s annual exposure guideline for PM2.5. All of the cities measured in the Middle East and Africa exceeded the WHO guideline levels of air pollutants. The same holds for cities in South Asia, with 95% of cities in Southeast Asia and 89% of cities in East Asia also exceeding the limit,once considered the bastion of bad air, average concentrations of PM2.5 in Chinese improved by 12%.
China’s government began paying more attention to air quality when a state TV reporter named Chai Jing wrote and produced her version of Al Gore’s famous put a spotlight on the health crisis caused by smog. China has since started reducing the use of coal-fired power plants and is investing heavily in electric vehicles.
India could use its own “green” movement, not as a call to save the planet from climate change, but as a means to stop a growing health crisis there as well.
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