Two news items, one bad, one good marks the day....!

Let’s have the bad news first.

Many schools in Delhi would remain closed today, on account of heavy smog due to air pollution. Apart from Municipal Corporation Schools, many other schools too, have joined. Though, this is only for day, what we need to ask ourselves is, is this the only day? Or is this just a trailer of many more such days to come….???

Answer is simple. All the readers of this blog would have no difficulty in understand the gravity of the situation. The National Capital, though currently the only city, it is very likely that soon many cities would make the list.

http://indianexpress.com/article/education/delhi-air-pollution-mcd-schools-to-remain-closed-tomorrow/

Delhi schools to remain closed due to heavy air pollution. Who is responsible? From GujartaMitra daily, 05/11/2016.
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The good news is, that the Paris climate deal takes effect from today as announced by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

“Now we must move from words to deeds and put Paris into action,” he said. “We need all hands on deck – every part of society must be mobilized to reduce emissions and help communities adapt to inevitable climate impacts.” Reads the caption from the news, on the link shared below.

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/11/04/1640333/paris-climate-deal-takes-effect-today

Paris deal for climte change effective from 04/11/2015.  From GujartaMitra daily, 05/11/2016.
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With these news, the question that we all need to ask ourselves is, “The world is definitely taking its pace towards the resilience, are we…??”

After reading this post, one of the readers,  Mr Vivek Kapadia, a post graduate student pursuing his environment studies, sends us following images of Delhi, at non today.  05/11/2016 noon. The smog still hovers over the city.......

Himanshu (Arjun ) Padhya