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The most polluted countries in the world
Posted on 4/17/24 at 8:58 am
Posted on 4/17/24 at 8:58 am
No Western nation is in the top twenty.
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In South Asia specifically, the AQLI believes residents could be losing up to 5 years off their lives. The region has been a global hotspot of air pollution for years, home to 37 of the 40 most polluted cities in the world.
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Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:01 am to DesScorp
They must have a lot of cows over there
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:01 am to DesScorp
And here I am sitting in a fricking ESG meeting for the last hour wasting my damn time.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:05 am to DesScorp
Of this list, I've only been to China. Seeing it only ranks 19th is kinda scary. Smog is pretty rough there in even medium sized cities.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:06 am to JimTiger72
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They must have a lot of cows over there
That's because the Indians won't eat them.
/s
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:08 am to TygerTyger
We sell many of these countries artificial coal that can't be burned by EPA standards. In the same breath, the same companies that sell this product advertise the production alternative bio fuels and are dedicated to reducing our carbon foot print.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:09 am to DesScorp
Yet, the USA is supposed to pay punitive damages to these shithole countries for our bad pollution.
That's a big
That's a big
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:09 am to DesScorp
We just need to do our part and pay more taxes so that Tajikistan stops destroying da earf.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:11 am to DesScorp
I've been to some of these places....India for sure, UAE and rest of GCC no.
Ghana yes. Pretty much all of West Africa SE Asia is nasty. Russia is going to have big problems with their accumulated industrial waste as will most of former USSR
Ghana yes. Pretty much all of West Africa SE Asia is nasty. Russia is going to have big problems with their accumulated industrial waste as will most of former USSR
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:12 am to DesScorp
And absolutely zero chance you get any of them to change their ways, unless you come up with a new clean energy source that is cost effective and sustainable. I'm not sure why we are so hyper focused on cutting emissions here in the U.S. when our focus should be figuring out a better way to do renewable energy, because at some point we will run out of resources.
This post was edited on 4/17/24 at 9:13 am
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:17 am to TygerTyger
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And here I am sitting in a fricking ESG meeting for the last hour wasting my damn time.
At least you got "TD posting" time out of the meeting...@sliveining
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:18 am to DesScorp
I went to Egypt in 2010 and I remember seeing piles of garbage on the side of the street 10 feet high and the Nile was full of garbage.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:26 am to TigerBlood17
Yet Greta has not been to a single one of them (nor has ANY other climate freak) to protest- what say you Gore and Kerry?
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:30 am to h0bnail
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Of this list, I've only been to China. Seeing it only ranks 19th is kinda scary. Smog is pretty rough there in even medium sized cities.
If you look closely, this is specifically gauging PM 2.5, or the very fine (and therefore dangerous) particulate matter. Most smog is generally larger particulates, PM 10, etc. I imagine China would probably rank higher on a more expansive list.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:38 am to DesScorp
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No Western nation is in the top twenty.
but yea, we're the problem. we're the ones that need to pay to fix it. get fricked
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:42 am to DesScorp
why is it always so bad in those countries?
Why can they not fix it? are they too poor or something?
Why can they not fix it? are they too poor or something?
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:45 am to Joshjrn
To piggy back off of my last post, it looks like PM 2.5 tends to come from varying kinds of combustion. This is an article from a few months ago specifically about New Delhi, but also makes reference to a few US cities: LINK
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Road dust and tiny bits of, well, stuff sent into the air by stone processing and other crushing operations are common sources of PM 10 pollutants. You can trace PM 2.5, on the other hand, primarily to combustion—fireplaces, car engines, and coal- or fracked (natural) gas–fired power plants are all major PM 2.5 sources. That’s why the five U.S. cities with the highest PM 2.5 levels are all in car-crazy California. Other problem cities have large coal-fired power plants (Pittsburgh), rely heavily on wood stoves for heat (Fairbanks, Alaska), or are prone to wildfires (Medford, Oregon)
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:46 am to h0bnail
When will everyone realize that everywhere else pretty much sucks.
Yes, its a very arrogant take but its true.
We are just better than every other country at almost everything.
Yes, its a very arrogant take but its true.
We are just better than every other country at almost everything.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:52 am to DesScorp
I saw some pics of India in a thread a month or two ago, and it was pretty shocking the amount of filth (and dead bodies) just lying around everywhere. It was disgusting.
This post was edited on 4/17/24 at 10:02 am
Posted on 4/17/24 at 10:00 am to CocomoLSU
8 of the top ten countries are predominantly desert locals. The natural dust probably has something to do with ranking based on a particulate [DUST] standard.
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