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New Delhi smog grows more intense as farm fires rage (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/news

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[–] livus@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There were more than 2,500 farm fires in Punjab state on Wednesday, north of Delhi, as farmers defied a Supreme Court-ordered ban on crop residue burning and the local police warned of legal action against them, The Indian Express newspaper reported.

This is a really intractable problem. I don't know what they are going to do.

That air quality is going to cost lives.

[–] tesseract 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does. Imagine people with Asthma or COPD. Their deaths are not going to be attributed to pollution.

[–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Fires like these can probably give people COPD.