Daily Times - Latest Pakistan News, World, Business, Sports, LifestyleLahore remains among worldโs most polluted cities
๐๐ซ. ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐L โฒโฑซโฎ ๐Sheikh sahab as always delivers excellent suggestions on how to "Deliver Clean Air (and adapt to #ClimateChange)" in this opinion piece published in Dawn - #Pakistan's largest and oldest english daily.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1873804
Though I disagree with one - the speed of energy transition (we can be quicker i think).
#ClimateCrisis #Climateemergency #ClimateDiary #SouthAsia #Paktodon #GlobalSouth #AirPollution #LahoreSmog #SaansLenayDo
"2 Million seek treatment as #Smog chokes #Punjab "
https://www.dawn.com/news/1872493/2-million-seek-treatment-as-smog-chokes-punjab
The WHO recommended Air Quality Index is 40, the safe limit is 300 above which it is considered too hazardous to breathe
#Lahore (and most of Northern #Pakistan + northern #India) have been averaging 1000-2000, roughly 25x-50x the recommended AQI
And we still have automaker + fossil fuel lobbies pushing to expand vehicle sales & coal power across both countries
Addressing an event for #Diwali in #Lahore, #Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz called for #ClimateDiplomacy with #india
โThe winds donโt know thereโs a border in the middle,โ she lightheartedly remarked..
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #LahoreSmog #Smog #AirPollution #PublicHealth #SouthAsia #ClimateDiary
Francis Mangion (M)@AnnaAnthro (off topic)
ah, today's one of the better days here with the monsoon going on. Weird, though, rains should have cleared it all up.
Anyways, I see #Lahore, I boost ๐ค
Abid OmarThe #wildfires in North America really put the worldโs pollution problem in perspective: peak PM2.5 particulate matter pollution in NYC is the same as *annual average* in #LahoreSmog and New Delhi.
Chart courtesy: Smart Air Filters.
@anirvan story of every upper-middle class household with a "driver" in #Lahore, #Pakistan.
(Only difference - replace expensive parking with no parking spaces ๐)
Appropriating the American car-centric culture for our cities and urban designs is literally killing us in South Asia, with the exaggerated heatwaves and all year round poisonous air.
#AirPollution #Heatwave #LahoreSmog #SouthAsia #ClimateCrisis
5:19 "..just the air pollution associated with a half degree temperature increase from 1.5C to 2C..corresponds to about 150 Million deaths mostly in Asian and African cities..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlBCp8pt7kโ
#Pakistan #ClimateChange #MaatiTV #ClimateEmergency #COP27 #ClimateCrisis #GlobalSouth #India #Bangladesh #LossAndDamage #ClimateJusticeโ
#Africa #AirPollution #LahoreSmog
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Busting Myths about Climate Change with Ahmad Rafay Alam | Out of the Box | Maati TV
#LahoreSmog #maatitv #outofthebox #climatecrisis Ahmad Rafay Alam is a Pakistani environmental lawyer and activist. In September 2019, he and his family help...
"Asthma patients cautioned against travel..."
What do we do when the smog is in our homes & all around us?
Leave #Lahore?
#LahoreSmog #Pakistan
https://www.dawn.com/news/1730296/asthma-patients-cautioned-against-travel-in-smog
