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| ![]() I am a resident of Uttar Pradesh and we have been at the receiving end of serious fog during winters. My father used to tell me that the best way to drive in fog is to catch the tail light of a vehicle ahead of you. Then drive as the vehicle ahead of you is driving and never loose sight of the taillight. The distance between you and the vehicle ahead of you should be a little lesser than the visibility on the road but you should be always in control of breaking. If the vehicle ahead accelerates too much, let it go and catch another vehicle. In any circumstance, always keep all possible lights of your vehicle on. This includes the headlights and the parking lamps. |
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I was un-knowingly there in Delhi right on the first day of the dreaded smog and it was terrible. I could smell the burnt wood/leaves/dried plant matter right when I landed at the airport. By evening time my throat and nasal passage had started burning. This doesn't happen because of Gulf dust. Only by late evening when I reached my parent's home and switched on the TV that I realized what this fiasco is all about. I had to endure the gas chamber situation from Tuesday to Saturday. I used to live in Delhi till 1999 - and in spite of extremely DENSE fogs, never had this situation. I have been in Delhi on and off, and seen the city get congested, gridlocked, polluted ... but not to this level. What I experienced was quite clearly smoke produced by mass scale burning of dried plant matter. What I am surprised with is: has Punjab and Haryana turned agricultural only recently? What used to happen in the past? | |
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| ![]() I think the stubble problem is a recent phenomena, after the advent of machines/harvesters in the farms. Earlier it was all manual and there was no left over stubble. |
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| ![]() It's that time of the year again. ![]() Here's another article exploring the link between burning petcoke and the alarmingly high levels of pollution in Delhi. Cheers ! Article (Monsanto) courtesy : Arvind Kumar , www.ecologise.in Article (Petcoke) courtesy : Aditi Roy Ghatak and Karl Mathiesen, http://www.climatechangenews.com Video Courtesy : Youtube, Abhishek Shukla |
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Surplus? But we keep climbing in the malnutrition ladder as every day passes Btw, At the end of the article the link for Monsanto reply https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/erroneous-comments-unsubstantiated-allegations-monsanto-smoke-article | |
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