The increasing level of poor air quality becomes a global warming and threat of emerging and re-emerging disease. Experts give short term solutions. Visionaries offer long term solutions. If we use their lenses we realize that many problems and their solutions are interrelated. We realize that technology without a blend of philosophy is sterile and often adds to the problems instead of solving them.
This narrative examines the hazards to human health due to deteriorating air quality in major cities in India, and short term and long term solutions. Every winter, heavy smog has become a regular feather in the national capital especially Delhi/NCR regions. Smog is a combination of smoke and fog entrapping particles in its fold. Besides being a health hazard, it seriously limits visibility often jeopardizing traffic movements and delaying flights. A periodic phenomenon is the “Asian Brown…
