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Environment & Energy

tblue37

(65,341 posts) Fri May 1, 2020, 06:20 PM May 2020

One 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 OP

For some, it may be the 1st time in their lives that they've seen a blue sky, devoid of pollution. OAITW r.2.0 May 2020 #1

What a miserable indictment against decades of poor procon May 2020 #2

+a brazillion! nt tblue37 May 2020 #3

I just told my daughter that seeing that woodsprite May 2020 #4

OAITW r.2.0

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1. For some, it may be the 1st time in their lives that they've seen a blue sky, devoid of pollution.

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Fri May 1, 2020, 06:44 PM

May 2020

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

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2. What a miserable indictment against decades of poor

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Fri May 1, 2020, 06:53 PM

May 2020

leadership and a population too impoverished to care about anything beyond their next meal.

tblue37

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3. +a brazillion! nt

Reply to procon (Reply #2)

Fri May 1, 2020, 07:19 PM

May 2020

woodsprite

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4. I just told my daughter that seeing that

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Fri May 1, 2020, 08:06 PM

May 2020

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.

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