Climate Change

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    A trash heap 62 meters (203 feet) high shows the scale of India’s climate challenge.

    Fires caused by heat and methane gas sporadically break out – the Delhi Fire Service Department has responded to 14 fires so far this year – and some deep beneath the pile can smolder for weeks or months, while men, women and children work nearby, sifting through the rubbish to find items to sell.

    Some of the 200,000 residents who live in Bhalswa say the area is uninhabitable, but they can’t afford to move and have no choice but to breathe the toxic air and bathe in its contaminated water.

    Bhalswa is not Delhi’s largest landfill. It’s about three meters lower than the biggest, Ghazipur, and both contribute to the country’s total output of methane gas.

    Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, but a more potent contributor to the climate crisis because methane traps more heat. India creates more methane from landfill sites than any other country, according to GHGSat, which monitors methane via satellites.

    And India comes second only to China for total methane emissions, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Global Methane Tracker.

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/10/i…

    • So me using a miserable paper straw and driving a Tesla isn't going to solve climate change, then?ETM
    • agree, fucking paper straws are going to be the death of me. lol_niko
    • and BTW driving a Tesla is the new driving a hummer._niko
    • just for supporting shit for brains and the sheer douchery of it_niko
    • idiocracyimbecile

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