India's capital chokes as air pollution levels hit 50 times the safe limit (apnews.com)
from Wilshire@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 14:35
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Reverendender@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 14:38 next collapse

I’m thinking that maybe humanity should do something about these issues

INeedMana@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 15:09 next collapse

Oh, we’ll do. We’ll build domed enclaves with filtrated air and start selling portable gas tanks with breathing mix
You can even have a strawberry flavour!

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 15:14 next collapse

Ah yes, Paradigm City. Now we just need the giant robots run amok.

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 15:40 collapse

I was told that by now I’d be living in a domed city on Mars, not a domed city on Earth.

INeedMana@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 09:30 collapse

See? Saved you the ticket!

thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Nov 19:41 next collapse

If only we let billionaires do whatever they want we wouldn’t have issues like this!

/s

TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee on 18 Nov 21:02 collapse

Unfortunately this is mainly a byproduct of a bunch of farmers all burning their fields at the same time. Happens every November in Delhi.

Akasazh@feddit.nl on 19 Nov 13:02 collapse

Yes that sounds be a no brainer and will lead to politicians who have the climate as priority to get elected.

Right, Anakin?

givesomefucks@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 14:42 next collapse

One of the ways US fossil fuel use is down but production is record breaking is it’s US coal being burnt in India.

This particulate pollution from small scale coal use is obviously horrible locally, but it doesn’t just stay there

I remember an article a while ago that said a lot of the particulate is landing on icebergs all the way at the poles. Because soot is dark, it warms up even faster than the iceberg and increases the speed it melts. So even when it’s out of the atmosphere, it’s still causing damage.

I wish we could do something about it, but regardless of party, every incoming admin keeps breaking the prior admin’s fossil fuel production limits.

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 20:41 collapse

Maybe they could suck it up into a machine that turns it into plastic.