Indian Politics and Democracy

[londonparistokyo]

It's just the air quality that has gone to shitters.
The polution has seeped into every aspect of our life.

I am young enough to remember when water was clean, even with open defecation we had cleaner villages, towns and cities, air quality was a thousand times better. I remember when there were numerous species of birds in tens of thousands in our neighborhoods. I can't pick one aspect of our lives in India and say it has not been impacted by pollution.
You can't even consume water. Either we have purifiers or buy water. I suspect this pollution issue in India will become worse before it becomes better,

For all the negatives western countries have, this is one aspect they have handled much better than India. In the place I stay there is not a single thing for me to complain when it comes to pollution. There are 3 bins, 200 litres each, one for wet, one for recyclables and one for bio like grass etc and the govt promptly collects them. At this point it's all up to our civic sense to handle the garbage. Tap water is pretty good for drinking, In winter, there are tens of thousands (may be millions) of parrots, at least half a dozen variety that migrate here, along with hundreds of native birds thriving.
The reason I bring up birds is because they are most susceptible to pollution than mammals. It's one indicator I have noticed in across the world that reflect urbanization/pollution of the place. both cause birds to permanently leave the place.

Ok one big thing I noticed was very very few people are doing anything about environmental conservatism. I saw many beautiful trees neglected, many local people treating them without any care or respect. Air pollution can be mitigated somewhat through the use of native trees and plants, but they have to be used to be mitigated. Not cut down and not replaced. Also I don't understand why streets prefer to use this awful blue tarp thing to block out sun, than just carve a little plot for a tree. The blue tarp thing messed up my eyes for days afterwards.

Edit: As an example in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, I saw zero Banyan trees anywhere. Very few peepal. I saw a grand total of one bhel patra in a park in a rich part of Lucknow. Otherwise, nothing. Why!?