Tag : Air pollution in Delhi

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The Scapegoating of Peasants for Pollution Crisis

The scapegoating of farmers for pollution serves a dual purpose for the corporates whose interests the Indian state actively promotes. It lays the groundwork for a future push to corporatise agriculture by portraying farmers’ ‘backward practices’ as in need of modernisation. It also diverts attention from the real culprits —the automobile industry, the rise in […]


Stubble burning—just a factor of agricultural ecological crises

Stubble burning by farmers in Punjab and Haryana in northwest India has been cited as a major cause of air pollution in Delhi and its surrounding region. The practice of stubble burning has it’s roots in market forced pressure on the farmers. The permanent solution for the problem and the overweening ecological crises is to go for […]