Clean air needs action all year round; and that it will work only if we act jointly and at scale, asserts Sunita Narain.
Each disaster has the same message: Learn to respect the mountains before you build tunnels, roads, and houses, notes Sunita Narain.
Chinese companies have 'designed' the sugar syrup which is used to adulterate honey so that it can pass Indian laboratory tests, reveals Sunita Narain.
To justify that farmers must burn if they are not paid cash incentive is doing injustice to them and to the lungs of the children of the country, notes Sunita Narain.
'Governments have neither any idea of the source of the infection, nor a grip on the disease.' 'Headline management will not work, not in this case,' observes Sunita Narain.
'And for the developing lungs of our children, this should not be tolerated. Not at all,' says Sunita Narain.
Indian farmers practise an agro-silvo-pastoral system and that livestock is a crucial part of their economy. Taking away the meat would demonetise their assets. It would kill their income, says Sunita Narain.
The tragedy is not the inevitable drought or the inevitable flood. It is our inevitable lack of ability to push and get done what needs to be done, says Sunita Narain.
What are the most worrisome aspects of climate change for India? Can they be solved?
The air pollution problem in the national capital won't go away till we take action -- such as ban the use of dirty fuels, ramp up public transport and oversee crop burning, says Sunita Narain.
What will Indian cities do about its growing mountains of waste?
Lack of sanitation is leading to avoidable deaths of infants, and underweight and stunted children.
Growing and harvesting trees for productive and economic uses are once again dead in the water, says Sunita Narain.
We need to clarify the rules for legal slaughterhouses and make sure that these can be enforced.
Building toilets, however essential, must not be confused with sanitation and the crying need for a revamp of India's sewage systems.
The fact is that BS-IV vehicles, particularly diesel trucks, are much less polluting than BS-III ones, says Sunita Narain.
Banning meat is cruel demonetisation. It is stealing from the poor, nothing less, writes Sunita Narain.
'It is clear that nature is not in a mood to give us leeway to be lazy, inefficient or just do business as usual.' 'It is telling us that we have no time to get things wrong. We need to take drastic actions - now
Donald Trump denied it. Hillary Clinton avoided saying it. But the Climate Change crisis is frighteningly real, says Sunita Narain.
We need to know that the sources of pollution and the action to be taken are known. But what is needed is to act. Plain and simple. So, focus, on each source and each action; who has to do what and by when
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