India's capital chokes in smog after firework ban flouted

It listed New Delhi as worst in the world, just above smoke-choked Lahore in neighboring Pakistan, 400 kilometers to the northeast.

Well there are no firecrackers in play in Lahore, so why it smoke-choked, that stub burning is only reason, and this smog will go away when the stub burning goes away in few weeks time.

And that stub is burned because it is useless for any other use, and why it is useless, is due to the automated harvesting machines, which render the stub useless, this was not the case before these machines were introduced, i.e no haze just 30-40 yrs back.

All that is going on and I’m being asked to not use a gas stove?

And we have to donate 30 trillion dollars up climate change?

um, no. Let other countries do it first.

BlacklabelToday 03:33 pm JST

All that is going on and I’m being asked to not use a gas stove?

And we have to donate 30 trillion dollars up climate change?

um, no. Let other countries do it first.

India suffers from climate change more than you do, I'm sure.

All that is going on and I’m being asked to not use a gas stove?

And we have to donate 30 trillion dollars up climate change? 

um, no. Let other countries do it first.

yes. It’s one of the more clever schemes by shady organizations to bilk people all the while pretending to care.

Does Modi even live in the capital and have to breathe it, too?

Hindu festival of lights, Diwali? er... surely Hindu festival of darks.

Stubble burning: Effects on health & environment, regulations and management practices - ScienceDirect

(Good article on stubble burning.)

When I used to live in a country where firecrackers were banned, I used to celebrate Diwali using firearms. Beretta A400 were my favorite.

All that is going on and I’m being asked to not use a gas stove?

And we have to donate 30 trillion dollars up climate change?

Pollution from smog and climate change from CO2 are quite different things.

This and India definitely is not the "factory of the world". Better to address this issue before ramping up industrial production if that is the plan.