China Could Teach India How to Clean Its Toxic Air

[AndrewJin]

Here you go, and I was trying to be polite when I quoted "50%":

"Biomass fuel consists of fire wood, dung cakes, agricultural crop residues such as straw, grass, and shrubs, coal fuels and kerosene. Together, they supply 75% of the domestic energy in India. An estimated three-quarters of Indian households use biomass fuel as the primary means for domestic cooking. Ninety percent of rural households and 32% of urban households cook their meals on a biomass stove".

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23229114

"Like Pratibha, over two-thirds of India’s 1.3 billion people continue to rely on carbon-emitting biomass and dung-based fuel for cooking, according to a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)report titled ‘Sustainable Energy For All’ – released this month”

http://indiaclimatedialogue.net/2014/07/17/millions-die-indians-still-cook-wood-dung/

what?
R u serious?

 

[dy1022]

No need, Shining incredible SP2012 is the best xx on Earth!

 

[TaiShang]

2012-2013 was really bad.
Those were the years when 10000+ km expressways were added per year!
It means, 2 months' construction = india's entire controlled-access expressway network

I think 2020-2025 will witness significant and tangible changes in major industrial cities.
Around 2030-2035 will see China back to blue sky every day.
The changes will be in line with the implementation of made in China 2025.

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india's road is off the chart!
pollution has no direct correlation with real development and industrialisation

China's pollution pathway is very similar to that of Japan.

China is repeating Japan in terms of increase and decrease in pollution that correlates with economic/industrial/infrastructure development.

Naturally, as industry/infrastructure matures, pollution declines.

India's pollution shows anemic characteristics; it is not caused by industrial or infrastructure development. And it is increasing. That would make any Chinese public official lose sleep, actually.

India has enormous challenges.

1. How to industrialize without further polluting?
2. If not industrialize, how to transfer into cleaner technologies/lifestyle without industry-generated finance?
3. If industrialization and non-industrial pollution continue at the same time,how India will ever be inhabitable? Who will account/pay for the negative implications?

The good thing is, because they have elections, a bad leader can easily be acquitted simply by being voted out. That's in fact a very small price to pay that any selfish politician would like to accept.

That's why I always believe corrupt Chinese officials would prefer a democracy over China-style governance because they would avoid harsh punishment. In democracy, the price for incompetency is very light: To be voted out.

But, in four years, I would have made enough money and connections to continue to make enough money post-election defeat.

India worships democracy because Indian officials know they can remain corrupt forever in a democracy.

Pollution has been a perfect example to this. A textbook example.

 

[AndrewJin]

China's pollution pathway is very similar to that of Japan.

China is repeating Japan in terms of increase and decrease in pollution that correlates with economic/industrial/infrastructure development.

Naturally, as industry/infrastructure matures, pollution declines.

India's pollution shows anemic characteristics; it is not caused by industrial or infrastructure development. And it is increasing. That would make any Chinese public official lose sleep, actually.

India has enormous challenges.

1. How to industrialize without further polluting?
2. If not industrialize, how to transfer into cleaner technologies/lifestyle without industry-generated finance?
3. If industrialization and non-industrial pollution continue at the same time,how India will ever be inhabitable? Who will account/pay for the negative implications?

The good thing is, because they have elections, a bad leader can easily be acquitted simply by being voted out. That's in fact a very small price to pay that any selfish politician would like to pay.

That's why I always believe corrupt Chinese officials would prefer a democracy to China-style governance because they would avoid harsh punishment. In democracy, the price for incompetency is very light: To be voted out.

But, in four years, I would have made enough money and connections to continue to make enough money post-election defeat.

India worships democracy because Indian officials know they can remain corrupt forever in a democracy.

Pollution has been a perfect example to this. A textbook example.

Corruption is legalised in demoncrazy.
You can jail corruptive Chinese in China, but you can't do that in a demoncrazy where corruption is in legalised forms.