Frightening Factoid of the day
by digby
According to the NY Times, Mumbai is becoming a cosmopolitan city along the lines of New York and Moscow, replete with American consumer culture and lots of excellent entertainment. It sounds great.
Well, except for one little thing they just mention in passing:
At night, a yellowish corona of light hangs over the city, a cocoon of pollution from open cooking fires mingling with the soot from auto-rickshaws, diesel buses and coal-fired factories. On a bad day, Mehta reports in his book, breathing Mumbai’s inversion-trapped air is the equivalent of smoking two and a half packs of cigarettes.
I guess as long as there are lots of restaurants and boutiques there’s nothing to worry about …