[Stoves] Off-topic: Open biomass burning and urban air pollution in India

[Nikhil Desai]

>From Washington Post link below.

Maybe Kirk Smith can compute aDALYs for every farmer and every crop, and
the Indian ministry of Health - or UN Foundation - can finance the
incentives to farmers to avoid burning crop wastes.

Nikhil

"All it takes is a match.

One by one, in the coming days, farmers in this compact village in northern
India will set fire to the straw in their freshly harvested rice fields.
Pungent gray smoke will rise into the air. Then it will drift southeast
toward New Delhi, thickening the smog that has turned India’s capital into
the most polluted major city in the world.

Just weeks remain before the 29 million people living in greater Delhi are
plunged into their annual battle with extreme air pollution. Each November
the past two years, the level of particle pollution considered most harmful
to human health has spiked to more than 30 times the limit prescribed by
the World Health Organization. The air in the city remains hazy and dirty
throughout the winter.

The Indian government has a new action plan in place: It just shuttered the
last coal-fired power plant in Delhi and recently banned the use of certain
industrial fuels within the city. On days when the pollution soars, other
measures will kick in, such as a halt to all construction activities and a
ban on trucks entering Delhi."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-is-trying-to-prevent-apocalyptic-air-pollution-step-1-stop-farmers-from-burning-their-fields/2018/10/15/79d3fd52-cb20-11e8-ad0a-0e01efba3cc1_story.html
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India is trying to prevent apocalyptic air pollution. Step 1: Stop farmers
from burning their fields.
 Joanna Slater, Washington Post October 15 at 4:29 PM
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