World leaders are busily trying to avert future environmental catastrophe at the climate summit in Paris this week. But while they discuss what the atmosphere should look like decades from now, people in New Delhi and Beijing are struggling just to breathe the air of today.
Both Delhi and Beijing are choked with heavy smog that exposes their combined 40 million residents to dangerously high concentrations of fine particles that can penetrate deep into human lungs. The toxic soup was so thick on Dec. 7 that authorities took the unprecedented step of issuing a “red alert” for Beijing, shutting down schools and construction sites to curb exposure to particulate levels over 10 times the World Health Organization’s recommended threshold. Delhi’s levels have been spiking just as high, leading authorities there to propose limiting the use of personal cars to alternate days.
http://qz.com/568560/china-and-indias-crazy-bad-smog-has-been-masking-global-warming/
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