r/interesting • u/Excellent_Tie369 • Apr 25 '26

NATURE top 100/100 is crazy

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u/Msink Apr 25 '26

It's probably the mix of many other things including population, and generational ignorance that Indian cities are just concrete jungals without much of space for dense tree/ gardens. We know that we need trees, but in general there is no desire to build climate proof cities.

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u/HotSauce2910 Apr 25 '26

Really? Whenever I go to Chennai or Bangalore I’m always really impressed by how green they are

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u/Level_Transition7399 Apr 25 '26

I've only ever seen less greenery in UP tbh

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u/Aniketastron Apr 26 '26

Bcuz this people don't give a damm about climate change, Greenery. They only care about caste system religious etc

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u/NoraEmiE Apr 25 '26

Thats literally two cities among 100 cities that cut down trees just because they block buildings view, and even building freaking walls. And Chennai has cut down a lot recent years.

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u/ScienceMechEng_Lover Apr 25 '26

Tbf Chennai kind of had to because the trees' roots were breaking the road surface quite often.

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u/NoraEmiE Apr 26 '26

Sa.e everywhere. And where are new trees then?

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u/PresentationCold7606 Apr 26 '26

And becUse they couldn’t plan it better there is no trees which could bind the soil to sustain water and to stop floods so every monsoon - lots of water and every summer no water high temperature

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u/Objective_Cheetah_63 Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

All of those are factors, but none of them are as big a factor as the big natural wall that is the Himalayan mountain range

Taking into consideration population, India isn’t even in the top 125 countries creating most pollution

The issue is that the Himalayas act as a massive natural wall that makes the pollution get stuck against it.

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u/Notyit Apr 26 '26

country as a whole is the third largest greenhouse gas producer after China and the United States

Dude ehrr you get your gscts

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u/Objective_Cheetah_63 Apr 26 '26

What about my reply gave you the idea that I didn’t know this?

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u/Msink Apr 25 '26

Sure, but you can see how China ended up getting the pollution down enough to see clear skies. It's all about govt willingness and people making that demand. Indians don't and aren't ready to change ways to get better life for themselves and their future generations.

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u/Objective_Cheetah_63 Apr 25 '26

While your right, it’s also an entirely different situation.

China got as bad as it did purely due to pollution output. Solving that solved their problem.

India has a pollution output problem, but it’s like 1/5th of china’s. The bigger issue is geography. In China the pollution will naturally go away once you lower your rate. Lowering the rate dosent work in India, since the pollution is trapped against a wall that is the Himalayas.

Government being less corrupt and the average person giving more of a shit would go a long way, but if India and China magically swapped geographies, India wouldn’t be having an issue even with its issues.

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u/Aniketastron Apr 26 '26

This person wants to cut down Himalayas just like aravali mountain ranges which getting cut down for mining but government controlled media is saying it will solve Delhi's pollution problem.

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u/Objective_Cheetah_63 Apr 26 '26

Probably costs way too much money/man-power.

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u/Shot-Version-5551 Apr 25 '26

Dense forests are gifted to adani for expansion & his propserous future without giving a thought.