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‘An invisible killer’: Beijing cleaned up its toxic air. Why can’t New Delhi? | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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More than 20 million people woke last week to a thick, acrid, and noxious smog that settled densely across the Indian capital.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

China is a dictatorship, the government decides to do something, no choice but to do it.

India is a democracy, government's got to convince everyone, including the powerful and moneyed that the thing they want to do is worth it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

India is a democracy, government's got to convince everyone …

India is a federation of ~30 states, with wildly varying levels of democracy. Now this is usually a good thing; it has allowed us to accomodate a great deal of cultural and economic diversity without breaking up. But a major cause of the pollution in Delhi is stubble burning in neighbouring, which the government of Delhi has no power over. And the union (i.e. federal) government is led by a different party, so they don't co-operate with the Delhi government.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You got no idea how India works, or how dictatorships with a "democracy" mask work, liberal virtue signaller.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like democracy doesn't benefit the people idk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sounds like neither benefits the people.

It should've never been bad to begin with. That smog didn't just magically disappear. It's in their soil, their water, their body.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Why?

Oh, right, because they are building and growing goods being sold halfway around the world

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like the people have no say otherwise, idk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A democracy where people have a voice that the ruling class can choose to ignore. Hmm.

Democracy runs opposed to capitalism.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Whatever commie