On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 07:48:53PM +0530, Sumant Srivathsan wrote: > This is quite true of most places in India. A combination of dust, smoke, > concrete and other assorted particulate matter have made most > urban/semi-urban habitats next to impossible to live in without some > version of respiratory disease.
I think the farmer suicides are a canary in the coal mine though. Precipitation shift + fossil water depletion are not a good combination. India isn't immune from what's creaming Pakistan.
