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外刊精选|印度首都雾霾爆表,民众竟仍出门健身
进入秋冬,印度各城市就开始进入“雾霾季”:焚烧秸秆和燃煤取暖造成了严重的空气污染。而刚刚结束的印度教节日排灯节,民众不顾禁令燃放烟花爆竹,让本就严峻的空气质量雪上加霜。11月以来,印度首都新德里已有多日成为全球空气污染最严重的城市。尽管如此,习惯户外活动的城市居民却忽略专家们给出的建议,执意坚持到城市公园等户外场所进行锻炼。印度的空气污染到底有多严重?民众为何仍然出门运动?
Toxic Air Is No Reason to Stay Inside for Delhi's Joggers and Yoga Fans
By Sameer Yasir
A few steps into his early-morning run, Purushottam Sahu struggled to breathe. He started coughing. He felt as if he might vomit.
Overhead, a thick brown-gray haze blanketed the sprawling forest park in New Delhi where he and other joggers, yoga enthusiasts and dog owners were keeping to their daily habits despite official warnings against exerting themselves in the toxic air.
Every year in the late fall, as air pollution in the Indian capital climbs to noxious extremes, the government takes emergency measures like closing schools, restricting traffic and banning construction. But for the region's 30 million inhabitants, life must go on, and for many in this urban expanse of lush parks and morning strolls, that means trying to remain active.
Concentrations of cancer-causing micro-particles that enter the bloodstream through the lungs have soared in recent days to 30 times the danger limit set by the World Health Organization.
Public health experts say that strenuous exercise can mean deeper breathing and more particles inhaled into the lungs, making outdoor activity dangerous and sometimes even fatal, especially for older people and children. But hardly anyone listens, city park officials said.
Mr. Sahu, who was taking his morning run at Sanjay Van, said he had moved to the city for a job 15 years ago and now worked as a software engineer. "Given a choice, I will pack my bags and leave this city without telling my friends," Mr. Sahu said. "We are stuck for giving good education to our children, without realizing we are also killing them with poisonous air."
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1.jogger英 [ˈdʒɒɡə] 美 [ˈdʒɑːɡər]