Why cleaning up the air isn't an election issue in India:
"New Delhi, India - November 12, 2012. Daily street life in the early morning during extreme smog conditions. New Delhi air quality has plummeted over the last few years and is now considered some of the worst in the entire planet."By the end of this month, 900 million voters in the 3rd largest economy in the world will have elected a new government.
Political pressure to act is created for a couple reasons. When a social problem is viewed as the consequence of the failure of one political party, it is likely to become part of an election campaign. Unemployment has been at the heart of opposition speeches across the country this election season. Alternatively, some issues are guaranteed to motivate the base and therefore always discussed.
A somewhat fatalistic view of things is that poor countries clean up the air after more important problems have been resolved. The so-called environmental “Kuznets curve”—pollution rises with wealth until a certain level of development, and thereafter falls—is consistent with this story.
It may also be necessary to frame conversations about pollution in terms that are more personal, and thus more real. Economists and academics spend a lot of time discussing air quality standards, economic efficiency, and social welfare costs. These are useful but abstract concepts. It is more meaningful to talk about shortened lives, as the AQLI measures, than “red category” air quality—we all know what the former means, while nobody understands the latter’s connection to our lives.
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