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‘An invisible killer’: Beijing cleaned up its toxic air. Why can’t New Delhi? | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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More than 20 million people woke last week to a thick, acrid, and noxious smog that settled densely across the Indian capital.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Having four times the population density (~~5900 people per square km vs 1300~~ numbers are chosen poorly, see exchange with zershuffle in the replies) and way less money to throw at the problem can't help. Not to say that it's hopeless or that India shouldn't try to clean up its air, of course, but the problem at a glance definitely looks tougher to solve for New Delhi than for Beijing

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

A huge amount of the pollution comes from farmers burning stubble. The solution to that isn’t complex.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Comparing New Delhi (an area of 43km2) to the Beijing metropolitan area (16400km2)... Nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That was actually a mistake on my part, thank you for catching that. It looks like the National Capital Territory of Delhi with a population of 16.8 million would be the better comparison? And that has an even higher density

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's a different definition of metropolitan area, I think. A lot of Beijing's area is extremely sparsely populated, moreso than Delhi's.