Pollution in cities...

[Place Of Space]

Beijing got its good days and bad days,when in its bad days,no other city trumps it on pollutions,these are the bad days


tian'an'men square,holy a crap!
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I bet someone especially some indian members must be ecstatic after seeing these pics,so I've been genuine enough in exposing our unpleasant dimensions of realities,how about some indian be genuine back in return by exposing theirs?

Best wishes to guys living in Beijing. Here I can watch stars at night.

 

[Vapnope]

The competition is strong, lets go South Asians

 

[nForce]

I don't understand how India is more polluted than China or the U.S. They are much less industrialized which means less green house gas emissions and waste disposal, but many Indian cities top the list. My guess is probably smaller land mass. When India is more industrialized, I wonder how high the pollution levels will reach.

High population is the issue here.

 

[ghameed]

I don't understand how India is more polluted than China or the U.S. They are much less industrialized which means less green house gas emissions and waste disposal, but many Indian cities top the list. My guess is probably smaller land mass. When India is more industrialized, I wonder how high the pollution levels will reach.

Don't make generalizations and jump to sweeping conclusions. look for reasons as to why it is so. As an Indian, I can rattle of some obvious reasons for this anomaly.

1) a significant percentage ( close to 50 percent) of the population burns firewood and other stuff for their cooking and
heating needs
2) Poor regulation of automobile standards. A large percentage of vehicles in India do not adhere to the stringent standards
set by the Government. A lot of corruption is also involved in the Transport ministry
3) Poor zoning of industries and housing and regulation of environmental standards

AFAICS , all these three will reduce with industrialization and better common sense

 

[TheTruth]

Yeh i get your point & i agree with it but by that logic GDP per capita figures are also stupid then, considering not everyone owns the same wealth as the other guy.

It's not the same thing. Pollution per capita in India is in fact higher. CO2 is not the kind of pollution they're talking about, but hazardous particulates. India has a lot of these in their cities for the reasons I mentioned.

 

[CNwansui]

hope high level of pollution in Indian cities help lower down pollution in your country

Never mind friend,pollution issues in China is as severe as in India,both countries are still in developing period.Stop being sarcastic like that idiot.

 

[unbiasedopinion]

Beijing got its good days and bad days,when in its bad days,no other city trumps it on pollutions,these are the bad days


tian'an'men square,holy a crap!
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WOW..Is it smoke or smog?Which time of the year is it? Winter or summeR?

 

[beijingwalker]

Beijing and Delhi: 2 cities and 2 ways of dealing with smog

By TIM SULLIVANDecember 12, 2015 7:56 AM

NEW DELHI (AP) — Two cities. Two very polluted cities. And two very different ways of dealing with twin public health crises.


Beijing and Delhi: 2 cities and 2 ways of dealing with smog - Yahoo News

 

[xunzi]

India is a youngster. They are spoil and haven't really face the real damage for industrialization but already face pollution already. That is the sad part. Seeing India being so ignorant make me sad.

 

[Beidou2020]

Stop polluting this great section of PDF with 'India'.

Post 'Indian' crap in their section or World Affairs, not Chinese/Far East section.

 

[SHAMK9]

Holy shit I always thought Delhi was foggy

 

[zeronet]

India is a youngster. They are spoil and haven't really face the real damage for industrialization but already face pollution already. That is the sad part. Seeing India being so ignorant make me sad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/world/asia/china-plans-to-upgrade-coal-plants.html?_r=0
china plans to cut pollutant discharge from coal-fired power plants by 60% by 2020. which basically means a large scale of power generation system upgrade in next 5 years. burning coal is the major pollution source in north china during winter. beijing's air quality will be improved dramatically if everything on schedule is realized.

 

[jamahir]

for delhi, it is the well-known "chalta hai", which is a indian attitude that means "it's okay" in a careless or callous way and used by the general public as excuse to hide their cowardice in participating in societal issues.

most of the citizens in india are not generally caring except for their own livelihood and family, except when a public issue is cricket matches and religion... this comes from how india was born - not through revolution.

control of pollution is not so much technological as much as political and requires social and political reorganization... but because of india's unscientific political system based on multi-party elections every few years, a party generally dare not take hard steps in banning or reorganizing something for the fear of alienating the electorate and thereby losing the power.

for example, the first and simplest step would have been to ban two wheelers across india, especially the motorcycles, which will also have the side-effect of reducing crime and accidents.

and then india being the most nationalist country in the world will of course prefer spending on buying western/israeli military systems but not on buying or producing high-quality city buses that will run on ethanol or sea water or any other sustainable fuel.

 

[onebyone]

The most polluted city in the world isn’t Beijing or Delhi

Indian commuters travel through a traffic jam on their way to New Delhi from Gurgaon on May 3. (Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images)

What's the most polluted city in the world? Some might point to Beijing, the Chinese capital, and its now legendary smog problem. Others may point towards India, where Delhi's own air pollution problems are become similarly infamous. However, a new report from the World Health Organization suggests that these megacities are actually only the tip of the iceberg – and the actual city with the world's worst pollution is probably in Iran.

We say "probably" here for two reasons. First, not all cities collect good enough data to be measured (a problem in itself). And secondly, it depends on how you measure it. When studying air quality, scientists look at the size of particles found in the air. Generally, a lot of attention is placed upon particles of a PM2.5 size, which is around one-30th the size of a human hair. These particles are particularly worrying because they have the ability to enter lungs and blood tissue and cause serious health problems.

However, you can also measure larger particles in the air. At PM10, the particles are coarser, though they can still be inhaled and cause health problems.

If you look at WHO's PM2.5 data, the Iranian city of Zabol comes out on top. This city, which has a population of more than 100,000, sits on the border with Afghanistan in Iran's east. The city is known for the "120 day wind," a lengthy dust storm through the hot and dry summer. Zabol is followed by Gwalior and Allahabad, two Indian cities, while Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital and largest city, comes in fourth.

Cities by PM2.5 pollution
Zabol (Iran) 217
Gwalior (India) 176
Allahabad (India) 170
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) 156
Al Jubail (Saudi Arabia) 152
Patna (India) 149
Raipur (India) 144
Bamenda (Cameroon) 132
Xingtai (China) 128
Baoding (China) 126
Annual mean PM2.5, ug/m3

Source: World Bank

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Delhi comes 11th in this ranking, while Beijing is far down the list at 57. For reference, WHO suggests that 10 micrograms per cubic meter of PM2.5 should be a guideline level for safe air.

WHO's PM10 data paints a somewhat different picture. Nigeria's Onitsha, a city of half-a-million people on the Niger River, is atop this list. The city has been known for its rapid growth and gridlock, though some locals were apparently still surprised that it appeared so high on the list. “We know pollution is very bad here. But this city must be much better than Lagos,” Solomon Okechukwa, a local official, told the Guardian.

 

[onebyone]

Cities by PM10 pollution
Onitsha (Nigeria) 594
Peshawar (Pakistan) 540
Zabol (Iran) 527
Rawalpindi (Pakistan) 448
Kaduna (Nigeria) 423
Aba (Nigeria) 373
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) 368
Al Jubail (Saudi Arabia) 359
Mazar-e Sharif (Afghanistan) 334
Gwalior (India) 329
Annual mean PM10, ug/m3

Source: World Bank

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Zabol also appears in the PM10 top 10, surrounded by cities from Pakistan and Nigeria as well as those from Saudi Arabia and India. In this ranking, Delhi comes in 25th and Beijing 153rd.

The relatively low ranking of Delhi in both scales has led to some muted celebration in the Indian press. In a WHO ranking released just two years ago, Delhi had had a PM2.5 rating of 153, among the worst in the world.Reuters notes that the city has gone to some lengths to tackle this problem, including ordering cars off the road at certain periods. However, there are large numbers of other Indian cities on the list, showing just how much of a problem pollution is for the country.

More broadly, WHO's latest report paints a worrying global picture of pollution. As The Washington Post's Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis report, the bigger picture in WHO's report is that air pollution is getting worse in urban cities around the globe, and the poorest cities are hit hardest. Around 80 percent of the cities and towns where air control is monitored have more pollution than WHO recommends, the organization found, and on average pollution levels worsened by 8 percent between 2008 and 2013.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...uted-city-in-the-world-isnt-beijing-or-delhi/