The Dark Blanket Around Delhi

Toxic air is taking over New Delhi, leading to closed schools and colleges,

forcing cars off the road and stopping planes from landing at the airport.

The pollution in New Delhi is so severe that the smog is even visible from outer space.

The 20 million residents of New Delhi, one of the world’s most heavily polluted cities,

has been suffering for weeks underneath the poisonous haze that’s up to 10 times worse than

what organisations consider to be safe.

The 20 million residents in New Delhi are facing some of the worst effects of pollution on the planet,

with the quality of air degrading to dangerous levels this week as the result of bad weather conditions,

dangerously high carbon emissions, and rural produced smoke converging over India’s capital.

Delhi’s Chief Minister posted on Twitter to describe his city as a “gas chamber.”

"I have a headache every day I wake up. It's suffocating to breathe sometimes.

And inflammation in the nostrils and all. And the eyes also.

Like it kind of burns," said a student, interviewed by the Agence France-Presse news agency.

A public health emergency has been put in place in the city for the past days due to the air pollution
being higher than in the past three years.

Every winter, the city is presented with a poisonous haze of car fumes and industrially-produced emissions.

In addition, poisonous smoke is created from stubble burning at farms around Delhi.

After carefully analyzing this drastic situation, experts say that currently breathing the air

in New Delhi is equivalent to smoking approximately 50 cigarettes a day.

The Central Pollution Control Bureau presents information showing that the air quality index (AQI)

in Delhi's Lodhi Road read 500 and 472 in Noida.

The concentration of PM 2.5 shot up to 337 micro grams per cubic meter,

crossing its threshold of 300 particles. (Nov 2019)

The government has promised farmers 100 rupees per quintal,

along with reinstating their agricultural land (if affected by agricultural debris).

Scientists in New Delhi also believe that the smog will become less dangerous after November 15, 2019. 

This is just the first of a series of events that are happening and will eventually happen

around Earth if we don’t make a difference.

If climate change progresses at this speed,
the UN and other sources state that as early as 2030, it might be too late to change it.

Try and make small differences in your life to help prevent climate change. 

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