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I guess greed and the lack of empathy aren’t monopolies of billionaires.
Hope the fires stop soon
This isn’t a wild fire. This is intentionally done by farmers to prepare their land for the next crop. The farmers know that the smoke is choking and killing people in Delhi. But they don’t care because the winds carry the smoke away from them. There is a ban imposed by the courts against this. And they still don’t care.
This is a really intractable problem. I don’t know what they are going to do.
That air quality is going to cost lives.
It does. Imagine people with Asthma or COPD. Their deaths are not going to be attributed to pollution.
Exactly. Fires like these can probably give people COPD.