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‘An invisible killer’: Beijing cleaned up its toxic air. Why can’t New Delhi? | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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More than 20 million people woke last week to a thick, acrid, and noxious smog that settled densely across the Indian capital.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

China is a dictatorship, the government decides to do something, no choice but to do it.

India is a democracy, government's got to convince everyone, including the powerful and moneyed that the thing they want to do is worth it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

India is a democracy, government's got to convince everyone …

India is a federation of ~30 states, with wildly varying levels of democracy. Now this is usually a good thing; it has allowed us to accomodate a great deal of cultural and economic diversity without breaking up. But a major cause of the pollution in Delhi is stubble burning in neighbouring, which the government of Delhi has no power over. And the union (i.e. federal) government is led by a different party, so they don't co-operate with the Delhi government.