Air Pollution and Climate Change Need People-led Action
In our interactions with informal workers in rural and urban contexts, we have heard many accounts about both increased work stress and job and income …
Pollution
Sixty to seventy percent of children in Bengaluru who breathe poor air get lung diseases.
The “Silicon Valley of India,” Bengaluru, is still praised for its lush vegetation. Due to the cold climatic condition throughout the year it was formerly known as “air-conditioned city. Environmentalists, however, worry that poor air quality has put the much desired city in great risk. According to experts, Bengaluru’s air quality is not being monitored properly. They indicated that between 25,000 and 30,000 trees have been felled in Bengaluru over the previous five years. Therefore, the vegetation that would filter out the dangerous components from air is lost. A.N. Yallappa Reddy, an environmentalist and former bureaucrat, told IANS that Bengaluru has some of the worst air quality in the world. About 60 to 70 per cent of kids have lung-related issues. They are given steroids, …
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