138
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
138 points (96.0% liked)
World News
36486 readers
640 users here now
News from around the world!
Rules:
-
Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
-
No NSFW content
-
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Having four times the population density (~~5900 people per square km vs 1300~~ numbers are chosen poorly, see exchange with zershuffle in the replies) and way less money to throw at the problem can't help. Not to say that it's hopeless or that India shouldn't try to clean up its air, of course, but the problem at a glance definitely looks tougher to solve for New Delhi than for Beijing
A huge amount of the pollution comes from farmers burning stubble. The solution to that isn’t complex.
Comparing New Delhi (an area of 43km2) to the Beijing metropolitan area (16400km2)... Nice.
That was actually a mistake on my part, thank you for catching that. It looks like the National Capital Territory of Delhi with a population of 16.8 million would be the better comparison? And that has an even higher density
It's a different definition of metropolitan area, I think. A lot of Beijing's area is extremely sparsely populated, moreso than Delhi's.