India’s Pay-to-Breathe Industry’s Alarming Growth
Revathy K, a pulmonologist in Bombay, is generally busy during the mild winter months, but these recent months have been particularly busy. The winds that typically move the city's construction dust, garbage, and traffic fumes slowed down in November due to an unexpected drop in ocean temperatures. The Bandra-Worli Sea Link, a bridge that connects the city's core to its northern suburbs, vanished behind a cloud of pollution as the air quality in the city fell to "extremely poor," briefly passing Delhi, the city with the worst air quality in the entire world. Many of the patients were wheezing when…
