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ah. by british manager, welcome to the dublin, use asia. glad you could join us. the indian capital deli routinely ranks is one of the world's most polluted cities. it's a quality alternates routinely between hazardous and unhealthy. look at the weather up on your phone and you'll see what i mean. but it's especially bad in october, november each year, a seasonal mix of factors such as stubble, bonding by farmers for hitler, emissions, and weather patterns, literally cause people to choke. every winter at densmart descends on the indian capital, making the lives up with some don't be 1000000 residents, miserable as in previous years, the toxic year pauses a major health risk to the skis children, richie mcgill,

is really concerned about a 3 year old daughter, annika, one whose stuff was from shortness of breath and yet severe go with the help of medicine that bang, we have the visit to the doctor's already constraint. these these for children of this age group. so the situation is not at all good. the family was even forced to buy it food, a fires to help the ear quality at home. the situation is also become critical in the capital schools. after a week up no glasses. this daily primary school is open to day, despite the high level of pollution. but while classes have resumed, there is still a complete ban on our direct duties. are you all written? mercurial? a senior teacher says that toxic small in delhi puts our students at great risk. if the majority of the children suffer from severe coughs and sometimes in faint,

but the schools face a dilemma piazza teacher, the biggest challenge is the students health is very important which we are trying to weigh me on. second biggest thing is that we don't want the schools for the shot at this time again, because the toil spend america has actually deleted the education quality of the school on the students as well. guarding to the latest report from state of global here. more than $100000.00 infants in india died within a month of birth. do be a pollution. another study has shown that one in every 3 children in delhi has impure lung function. this hospital in new delhi is experiencing a surge of patients because of the skis, toxic ear, pulmonologist, doctor, nickle more. the had seen hundreds of patients, mostly children suffering from respiratory problems. he says that situation is alarming and believes that delhi is toxic, yet to get

a serious health crisis. children is a very, very vulnerable group because their young lungs are still in douglas menchie's. so during the development, due to the exposure to so much of pollution, that long before getting developed can get damaged, that damage getting the 5000000 indian government is currently working on an ambitious linear program. it games got it, pollution, but what the person for the next 5 years. but that is a long wait, but you don't like a leica who's already suffering from previous problems. let's get more on this from jumping from the lubbock irish. the journalist and author of breathing here is injurious to your health. a book about evolution in india is not gonna euro. you have lived in delhi quite for quite some time. which ranks as one of the world's most polluted cities. what is it like to spend a day in daily's, polluted air?

it's awful. it's actually like smoking involuntarily your eyes in your short just class and starts hurting. you get sore throat. you get sick really often. i get a dilution headache pretty much every time i step out. it's really bad. it's actually a human rights violation. and it's quite a thing to sir human rights violation. but this happens particularly every winter in delhi because it faces this tick blanket of small that virtually shut everything down and it's caused by a stubble burning on farms, regular emissions, and construction dust. the question is, why does this keep happening every year? and why is it not preventable? preventable actually, and then they make the lock down to the band. it showed us how it is indeed reversible as well. when we saw clear, blue skies cleans clean air in the winter of the co bid. the 2 years,

everybody locked in for called it, but let me just quickly try and explain why this repeats itself. every single window, what happens is in north india, there is the maryan range, which sort of acts as a barrier to dissipate pollution, especially the mazda, a harmful particles, the timing microscopic b, m $2.00 particles. what happens in the winter is when temperatures come down, there is something called inversion, where evolution gets trapped closer to the ground. so you're seeing more dense, micro particulate matter, which we then end up smoking because very, i really can't call it breathing, breathing. use an involuntary activity. and when you're constantly a smoking, smoke and dust, then really it is a human rights. pollution. be done. deli done. then most of north and you actually don't want to make this about daily in dire in, don't get it in start smoking and that's 510000000 people were pretty much in

a gas chamber for most of the winter. so the way you describe it, it sounds a lot like a climatic phenomenon. how do you prevent that? so it's not just, this is, this is i only, i touched upon the geographic and me to logical reasons. what happens in the winter is when thomas start start burning their crops, double that releases a lot of smoke and the winds are turning around that time. so the smoke comes down wind all the way to all the dense urban centers, all. so at that time, october in november is when india sees its largest festival, the festival of the valley, which is festival of lights, but seems of become the festival of firecrackers. so you have like about a 1000000000 people bursting firecrackers. and even if everybody says well, i'll just burst a few, you can imagine what sort of but there is in the air, not just micro particulate matter by now, because this has barium nitrate, all sorts of chemicals. and now you're smoking chemicals,

in addition to the carbon particles that you're in, healing, and these lead to episodic highs, which actually hospital admissions in the winter have shown to have risk to, to rise sharply every single winter. and despite that, i don't think this is getting the kind of public attention or governmental attention that it needs. you know, i did want to talk to you about the governmental attention. but just to where you describe it, it almost sounds like people themselves don't care enough to stop doing the things that they are doing that are contributing to this kind of pollution. would you agree? so i think there isn't as much awareness and you know, if i want to give an example when it 1st started, not many people were aware of what this diseases and how it comes up and all of that. but the government is very good. it's very quickly spread this information through phone calls. you couldn't make a phone call without getting the pre recorded message on what it is and how it homes you and help protect us. nothing like this has happened for it,

but use which actually kills many more people. evolution is killing almost 2000000 people every year in india. and that's many more than cobra. and yet, it isn't treated as a public health emergency, which is undoubtedly evolution actually is the most home for it goes is mom been disease and it's already been war or you know, any kind of even smoking it's way up there as the more home pl. public health emergency and yet it is not given that attention by the government. all right, so one is the awareness part of it. what about other solutions? you're also go fond of an angel care for in your line of work. are you seeing enough solutions that people are working on? yes, there are people who are coming up with innovative solutions. but you know, you really need in a situation like this. you can't have a small number of people working in silos with innovative solutions. you really need the entire force of the government and the corporate sector. there is

a lot of industrial usage. there is a lot of big europe a use and we have crops double bonding, which is completely avoidable. and which contributes almost 44 percent of winter air pollution to the north of parts of the country. and that is completely avoidable. you also have things like firecrackers, which in fact my group, a supreme court lawyer was one of the co founders in my group edition to the supreme court and had banned from 20171819. but despite that, of course, enforcement is not strong enough. so you have people, despite it being unlawful, any legal, reversed firecrackers, going ahead and doing that because they are not aware of how, how badly it's affecting them, their young ones and their previous generation reliever. therefore, the time being returned to showing for joining us today. dorothy ponder love a quarter from arbor newsome to land degradation. it is a serious concern in indian agriculture, which use

a significant amount of chemical fertilizers to grow food crops. excessive chemical use ultimately strips to land of its nutrients, leaving it non arable. but a new initiative in the southern indian state of entrepreneurs is helping reverse that trend. farmer e p. my know her has recently changed the way he farms he has started. que thing naturally put lighter and best to fight that a free of chemical death, which has not just boosted his crop yield. it has improved the quality of his land before will soon if you'd only growing badly under grown, not only that, oh, the only cut. so after that though, well when i come or do nigel for me, i will say i am going all types of tables in india, chemical fertilizers are often houston farmed land, the fields or were tilt, and usually a single crop with planted each year, distract

a 5th cause loss of nutrients from thawing and increase the risk of death certificate in a process of once for it. they land turning into dust, climate change. if wasn't the problem, then pitchers are rising and rainfall is becoming more irregular. the most important thing to keep in mind is that land is finite, right, and 70 percent or more of land has been converted from its natural state for human use. that doesn't leave us a lot of land that convert going forward when we consider the food garden and other needs. natural farming from the study store unproductive land. it was if materials made from godaddy, go using brown sugar extracted from sugar canes, and other natural ingredients. my lady has her thousands of families make 13. she said that he kind of her natural farming that we are booking the book. it is

very inexpensive. and lawyer explained. lillian book, i'll input side made from the local materials that are available most of the day, monday for what they are. they're really so dead weight cost less that is it some in st. before them that is also encouraging. but skilling up natural farming will be a real challenge and that's it for today. there's a cost more storage from the region on our website. did dot com forward slash asia back again tomorrow. at the same time, you then is the end of the pandemic in site. we show what he could look like will return to normal. and we visit those who are finding it difficult with successes and you know,

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