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Related: About this forumOne of world's most polluted cities--New Delhi post-CV-19 lockdown: clear blue skies!

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One of world's most polluted cities--New Delhi post-CV-19 lockdown: clear blue skies! (Original Post)
tblue37
May 2020
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OAITW r.2.0
(31,743 posts)1. For some, it may be the 1st time in their lives that they've seen a blue sky, devoid of pollution.
If anything could can come from this pandemic, I hope it's trying to reopen a more Earth/human friendly energy and industrial policy. Probably won't happen, though.
procon
(15,805 posts)2. What a miserable indictment against decades of poor
leadership and a population too impoverished to care about anything beyond their next meal.
tblue37
(68,344 posts)3. +a brazillion! nt
woodsprite
(12,565 posts)4. I just told my daughter that seeing that
And other places experiencing similar clearing makes me wish humanity could use this new normal as a beginning to move forward and not go back to how society was before - where everything on our mind was the next thing, the next thing, the next thing... Superficially moving through the motions of life.
