In 2017, 1.05 Million Indians Died Due to Burning Fossil Fuels, Study Says 02/07/2021
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Chandigarh: An international team of researchers has examined the sources and health effects of air pollution to find that the deaths of 1.05 million people in 2017 could have been averted if we had eliminated fossil fuels everywhere – and as many as half of them just by not burning coal.
The researchers examined the sources and health effects of air pollution around the world, as well as in 200 countries and sub-national regions. The dominant sectors responsible for air pollution were residential (19.2% of PM2.5 burden), industrial (11.7%) and energy (10.2%).
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh – Deen Dayal Verma has never burned as many bodies as he has this year.
Sitting under the shade of a cement roof at a crematorium in Barabanki city, the 55-year-old who has been a crematorium worker for the past six years, says with a wry smile: “Actually, no dead body has come today. Has COVID-19 come to an end or are the bodies being taken to other crematoriums?”
In India, where cremation on a funeral pyre made from wood has long been part of an elaborate ritual to honour the dead, the religious significance of laying the dead to rest has been all but abandoned as the bodies stack up during the second deadly wave of COVID.
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Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh – Deen Dayal Verma has never burned as many bodies as he has this year.
Sitting under the shade of a cement roof at a crematorium in Barabanki city, the 55-year-old who has been a crematorium worker for the past six years, says with a wry smile: “Actually, no dead body has come today. Has COVID-19 come to an end or are the bodies being taken to other crematoriums?”
In India, where cremation on a funeral pyre made from wood has long been part of an elaborate ritual to honour the dead, the religious significance of laying the dead to rest has been all but abandoned as the bodies stack up during the second deadly wave of COVID.
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