I’ve been to various locations around the world with severe smog issues - after getting back to the hotel you wipe away amazing amounts of grime and soot from your face and from the insides of your nose, and then you think about the fact that you can’t wipe it off of the insides of your lungs. What’s in the air in New Delhi now must be incredibly bad if it’s being described as 10 times worse than Beijing.
My daughter spent the summer in Nanjing (China) and was coughing for six weeks after she got home. Sounded like an old man who’d been smoking for forty years.
Wouldn’t “10 times worse than beijing” make it .. underwater, but with sludge?
And I didn’t know Bush was president of these places, and that conservatives drove our SUVs there. I’ll have to remember that.
Google images of the Ganges-air might be the lesser problem.
Yeah, Beijing is one nasty place. There was an article a few years ago about an artist that would make bricks out of the particulates that he pulled from the air with a vacuum cleaner.
What’s in India is another sort of ‘smell’ and it’s not coming from factory smog.