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Speech On Air Pollution

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Air pollution is the fifth largest killer in India, killing around 1.5 million people every year due to chronic respiratory diseases and asthma. Despite this, people in New Delhi (the capital of India) found joy in bursting firecrackers on the New Year’s Eve boosting up the air pollution levels and further worsening the air quality. The Supreme Court of India had banned bursting firecrackers till November 1, before the festival of Diwali when most of the celebration is done by bursting firecrackers, to avoid further smogginess in the city. However, a lot of people found it convenient to still burst firecrackers ignoring both the ban and the hazardous effects it is having on the air around them. On the 1st of January, the Central Pollution Control Board classified the air quality as ‘very poor’ in Delhi with the Air Quality Index 400(the worst AQI in the CPCB Index). In some parts the AQI has reached 999 which experts say is equivalent to smoking 45 cigarettes a day. Thus, the overall situation in Delhi is worse. The situation in Delhi seems to me as an important example of the prisoner’s dilemma where every person thinks selfishly at the expense of others instead of working together, in a cooperative manner which begets them to fall in a situation which is worse than it would otherwise have been if they had worked together. Most of the people in Delhi made an independent choice of bursting the firecrackers for their own interests and pleasure neglecting the effects it is

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