Ozone pollution in India kills enough crops to feed 94 million in poverty

[knocker]

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In one year, India’s ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country’s major crops, causing losses of more than a billion dollars and destroying enough food to feed tens of millions of people living below the poverty line.

 

These are findings of a new study that looked at the agricultural effects in 2005 of high concentrations of ground-level ozone, a plant-damaging pollutant formed by emissions from vehicles, cooking stoves and other sources. Able to acquire accurate crop production data for 2005, the study’s authors chose it as a year representative of the effects of ozone damage over the first decade of the 21^st century.

 

http://news.agu.org/press-release/ozone-pollution-in-india-kills-enough-crops-to-feed-94-million-in-poverty/

[Gray-Wolf]

It disturbs me that we have such a vocal group of people denying man's ability to impact the planet's atmosphere when it is plain to see just how good we actually are at messing with the atmosphere?

 

From the smogs in the UK, killing tens of thousands, to the polluting of the old USSR to the new age of Indo-China pollution we appear to be masters of not giving a pooh about the 'costs' of modern day living?