Topic: China-India Smog Rivalry a Sign of Global Menace
Author's: Angel Hsu & Jason Schwartz
Author's: Angel Hsu & Jason Schwartz
- Air pollution kills around 7 million people every year, accounting for one in eight deaths worldwide
- Dozens are articles asking whether China or India had the smoggiest capital city
- But with dangerous air pollution in other parts of the world, narrow attention on just China, India or China-versus-India is problematic.
- The 2014 EPI reveals that 1.78 billion people are currently exposed to PM2.5
- More shockingly, 3.87 billion people worldwide – almost half of the global population – live in areas that exceed this threshold.
- We hope that one outcome of all this debate over air quality in China versus India will be increased public pressure for governments to follow China in providing more accessible, transparent and complete data on air quality.
- China pollution 20.7 million
- New Delhi population is 22.0 million
- It contributes to diplomatic noise while distracting useful investigations into a global problem that is killing a lot of people – and not just in the developing world.
- Our research points to some of the major obstacles to improving these negative trends
- The sources of air pollution are distributed across a dizzying variety of sectors, from industry and energy production to waste management and household cooking.
- Tackling air pollution as a unified issue and achieving even conservative targets has proven difficult.
- Access to clean drinking water, on the other hand, has seen remarkable improvements over the last decade.
- Problematic in and of itself, this gap makes country-to-country comparison of air quality very difficult.
- Beijing has made substantial efforts to improve the air quality information it has provided its citizens in recent years (see accompanying infographic). India has simply fallen behind the curve.
Author Point's:
The author point for publishing this article information to the whole world is because they want to let everyone know what's going on around the world. Specially to the countries that his discussing. Which is the China and India. They are having similarity and difference to keep their country more un-polluted. They both having a air pollution qualities which can affect their society. Both cities (Beijing and New Delhi) clearly have serious pollution problems – but the colors chosen for the charts/illustrations seem to indicate that the situation is very, very much worse in Beijing than it is in New Delhi. Also, India has become more polluted than China and It has difficult to make changes. But Beijing has made substantial efforts to improve the air quality information it has provided its citizens in recent years. India has simply fallen behind the curve.
The author point for publishing this article information to the whole world is because they want to let everyone know what's going on around the world. Specially to the countries that his discussing. Which is the China and India. They are having similarity and difference to keep their country more un-polluted. They both having a air pollution qualities which can affect their society. Both cities (Beijing and New Delhi) clearly have serious pollution problems – but the colors chosen for the charts/illustrations seem to indicate that the situation is very, very much worse in Beijing than it is in New Delhi. Also, India has become more polluted than China and It has difficult to make changes. But Beijing has made substantial efforts to improve the air quality information it has provided its citizens in recent years. India has simply fallen behind the curve.
My thought's:
After reading this article it was really scary how India isn't making any changes to deal with their pollutions. If the India isn't making any progress to change what would happen if this keeps going. Also, when I looked at the graph in the article China has more older people than being birth. As the result in India they have more people giving birth than the older people. What' has been more scary is that India has more people than China and India space or their country isn't that much big. But it' country made it more big than China.
After reading this article it was really scary how India isn't making any changes to deal with their pollutions. If the India isn't making any progress to change what would happen if this keeps going. Also, when I looked at the graph in the article China has more older people than being birth. As the result in India they have more people giving birth than the older people. What' has been more scary is that India has more people than China and India space or their country isn't that much big. But it' country made it more big than China.
So what?
Air pollution can kill a lot of people and destroy our civilization.
Say's who?
Jonathan Kaiman
What if?
If air pollution can be fix for every country or the entire world.
What this remind you of?
This remind me of a movie that we have watch I forgot the title was but it was similar of the topic.
Air pollution can kill a lot of people and destroy our civilization.
Say's who?
Jonathan Kaiman
What if?
If air pollution can be fix for every country or the entire world.
What this remind you of?
This remind me of a movie that we have watch I forgot the title was but it was similar of the topic.