The world's top 100 most polluted cities - 22 of the top 30 are in India

[Gabbar Singh]

China and India dominate the list with Faisalabad and Lahore also making the top ten.

(CNN)Asia has dominated a new list of the world's most polluted cities of 2018.

According to the report from AirVisual, which measured 3,000 cities, air pollution will cause around 7 million premature deaths globally next year and have a major economic impact. It noted that although South Asian countries and China were the worst affected, air pollution is a global issue

Here are the 100 most polluted cities according to the report, starting with Gurugram, a suburb of the Indian capital New Delhi. 22 of the top 30 are in India.
1. Gurugram, India
2. Ghaziabad, India
3. Faisalabad, Pakistan
4. Faridabad, India
5. Bhiwadi, India
6. Noida, India
7. Patna, India
8. Hotan, China
9. Lucknow, India
10. Lahore, Pakistan
11. Delhi, India
12. Jodhpur, India
13. Muzaffarpur, India
14. Varanasi, India
15. Moradabad, India
16. Agra, India
17. Dhaka, Bangladesh
18. Gaya, India
19. Kashgar, China
20. Jind, India
21. Kanpur, India
22. Singrauli, India
23. Kolkata, India
24. Pali, India
25. Rohtak, India
26. Mandi Gobindgarh, India
27. Xingtai Shi, China
28. Shijiazhuang, China
29. Ahmedabad, India
30. Aksu, China
31. Handan, China
32. Anyang, China
33. Baoding, China
34. Linfen, China
35. Wujiaqu, China
36. Xianyang, China
37. Jaipur, India
38. Jiaozuo, China
39. Hengshui Shi, China
40. Xuzhou, China
41. Cangzhou Shi, China
42. Pingdingshan, China
43. Kaifeng, China
44. Asansol, India
45. Howrah, India
46. Xuchang, China
47. Zhengzhou, China
48. Tangshan, China
49. Puyang, China
50.Luohe, China
51. Shangqiu, China
52. Kabul, Afghanistan
53. Xinxiang, China
54. Shihezi, China
55. Laiwu, China
56. Nanyang, China
57. Amritsar, India
58. Xiangyang, China
59. Zhumadian, China
60. Liaocheng, China
61. Heze, China
62. Kizilsu, China
63. Xian, China
64. Luoyang, China
65. Yuncheng, China
66. Jincheng, China
67. Manama, Bahrain
68. Urumqi, China
69. Yangquan, China
70. Zhoukou, China
71. Mumbai, India
72. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
73. Huaibei, China
74. Weinan, China
75. Mandideep, India
76. Talcher, India
77. Suzhou, China
78. Zaozhuang, China
79. Sanmenxia, China
80. Bozhou, China
81. Zigong, China
82. Jalandhar, India
83. Jingmen, China
84. Panchkula, India
85. Turpan, China
86. Kuwait City, Kuwait
87. Zibo, China
88. Taiyuan, China
89. Langfang, China
90. Binzhou, China
91. Hebi, China
92. Lukavac, Bosnia-Herzegovina
93. Dubai, United Arab Emirates
94. Udaipur, India
95. Ludhiana, India
96. Changji, China
97. Dezhou, China
98. Huainan, China
99. Fuyang, China
100. Kathmandu, Nepal

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/05/health/100-most-polluted-cities-2018-intl/index.html

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

I remember seeing a picture from the 1920s of what is now Pakistan and it looked a lot cleaner back then. Industrial age and third world countries is not a great combo.

 

[Syed1]

No problem you guys can just use the $400b in foreign reserves to clean up the mess

 

[Jin Chacha]

Rather pleasantly surprised that Karachi is not on the list.

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

China, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Around 3,2+ billion people live in these countries. That's almost half the world. Ominous signs for our future as a species. Governments of these countries should take serious steps to control the pollution.

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

Rather pleasantly surprised that Karachi is not on the list.

Check out this table bro:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-polluted_cities_by_particulate_matter_concentration

Karachi at #24

 

[Jin Chacha]

Check out this table bro:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-polluted_cities_by_particulate_matter_concentration

Karachi at #24

Wonder what the difference is between the two studies. One list having Karachi at 24 and the other not even in the top 100 is strange. Having lived in Karachi there is no way I can believe that it is clean enough to not be in the top 100.

 

[PakLFC]

This is why IK is growing tree's all over to make the air cleaner. We also have major pollution problems in our cities as well. Take your handkerchief out in Karachi and it'll go black in five minutes.

 

[Sirris]

If there is only one thing I highly feel ashamed and embarrassed about Pakistan then that's the amount of rubbish and pollution lying around. I don't care much about India, since Pakistan is my home and that's my focus. It's not like I wish to visit India anytime soon so no care.

I'd love it if we improve the recycling and waste management department and folks stop littering. After all "Sfai nisf Imaan hai"

 

[Varun]

Looks like many of those cities are in North India.

I wonder if the South - and cities like Karachi are considered less polluted because the coast acts as a buffer of sorts?

 

[Napa]

China and India dominate the list with Faisalabad and Lahore also making the top ten.


https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/05/health/100-most-polluted-cities-2018-intl/index.html

Polluted cities are a by-product of industrial development. Countries go through a stage of being more polluted as they get richer. The stage after that is when more money is spent on cleaner technologies and the pollution decreases. I would rather live in a more polluted city that was getting richer than in a stagnant city that remains poor but is less polluted.

It is no surprise that Faisalabad, which is responsible for half of Pakistan's main exports (textiles) is the only Pakistani city on the list.

Back in the 1970s "L.A.’s mid-century smog was so bad, people thought it was a gas attack".

https://timeline.com/la-smog-pollution-4ca4bc0cc95d

The Cuyahoga River which flows by Cleveland was so polluted that it caught fire in 1969.

With India growing at 7%+ a year, in about 10 years its GDP will be double and then it can move on to the expensive business of having a clean environment along with wealth.

 

[ahmedzee]

Top polluted minded leader is from India too... oh wait, it’s their prime minister.

 

[Syed1]

This is why IK is growing tree's all over to make the air cleaner. We also have major pollution problems in our cities as well. Take your handkerchief out in Karachi and it'll go black in five minutes.

Ok thora zayda hogaya

 

[sshakir411]

Surprised to see Lahore so high up since every Lahori always says Karachi is dirty lol

 

[srh]

Karachi is very dirty

 

[Gabbar Singh]

Anyone even talking about this during general election campaigning?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="in" dir="ltr">Cities with highest particulate matter pollution in air.<br><br>1. Kanpur, India<br>2. Faridabad, India<br>3. Gaya, India<br>4. Varanasi, India<br>5. Patna, India<br>6. Delhi, India<br>7. Lucknow, India<br>8. Bamenda, Cambodia<br>9. Agra, India<br>10. Gurgaon, India<br><br>(World Health Organisation)</p>— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) <a href="https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1126449132732801025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


Reported elsewhere too:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/m.ti...olluted-megacity/amp_articleshow/63997130.cms

 

[m.shah]

I am presently living in Faridabad. Itz the Dirtiest place I have ever seen. All type of wastages you can find on both side of roads. I wonder what is government doing no one is even talking about it.

 

[Junaid_ahmed]

Population plus landlocked has made these cities more polluted. Karachi & Bombay would have been on top if not bordering the sea.

 

[troodon]

UP tops in everything for wrong reasons in India. What a dump of a state.

I used to think Hyderabad is super polluted. I feel choked sometimes when I travel in Hyderabad. Surprised it is not among the top polluted cities in India. Just goes to show how bad the pollution is in UP cities. I wonder how people are even surviving there.

 

[troodon]

Anyone even talking about this during general election campaigning?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="in" dir="ltr">Cities with highest particulate matter pollution in air.<br><br>1. Kanpur, India<br>2. Faridabad, India<br>3. Gaya, India<br>4. Varanasi, India<br>5. Patna, India<br>6. Delhi, India<br>7. Lucknow, India<br>8. Bamenda, Cambodia<br>9. Agra, India<br>10. Gurgaon, India<br><br>(World Health Organisation)</p>— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) <a href="https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1126449132732801025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


Reported elsewhere too:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/m.ti...olluted-megacity/amp_articleshow/63997130.cms

Who cares how people die. Its all about votes and what people eat, Cow, Mandir/Masjid, caste, religion etc. These are the factors that decide which party wins.

Issues like Pollution, lack of Infra, Over population etc never ever get discussed during elections. People seem to have resigned to the fact that these will always be there.

 

[rockyboy2018]

I lived all my life in Karachi for almost 35 years. Just after living in germany for 6 months then went back to Karachi. I could not even walk for 5 minutes, very surprized to see this change. People, streets , everything looked so out of place. I wonder how cleaned and highly developed Germany is. I visited countrues like Malaysia, UAE, Thailand and went back to Pakistan but I never felt this kind of change. Europe seems in gerneral looks like a place from another planet.

 

[gazza619]

I lived all my life in Karachi for almost 35 years. Just after living in germany for 6 months then went back to Karachi. I could not even walk for 5 minutes, very surprized to see this change. People, streets , everything looked so out of place. I wonder how cleaned and highly developed Germany is. I visited countrues like Malaysia, UAE, Thailand and went back to Pakistan but I never felt this kind of change. Europe seems in gerneral looks like a place from another planet.

Yep having lived in the UK for nearly 15 years, I cannot digest Karachi anymore.

It seemed normal when I used to live there.

 

[Smudger]

I am suprised to see Faisalabad in the list. I use to live there before moving to Canada. IIRC faisalabad was dirty but I have also visited Delhi and I thought it was the dirtiest place I have ever been to.
I think the Vancouver is perhaps the cleanest city on the planet. I might be biased but I have visited London, New York, Paris , Sydney , Brisbane , Tornto and Auckland

 

[Angrez Pakistani]

I lived all my life in Karachi for almost 35 years. Just after living in germany for 6 months then went back to Karachi. I could not even walk for 5 minutes, very surprized to see this change. People, streets , everything looked so out of place. I wonder how cleaned and highly developed Germany is. I visited countrues like Malaysia, UAE, Thailand and went back to Pakistan but I never felt this kind of change. Europe seems in gerneral looks like a place from another planet.

Imperialism tend to have that effect.

 

[giri26]

This is really a problem in India. I lived for few months in Delhi during 2016-2017 Winter and it was horrible. Not only the pollution, even the noise in that city is ridiculous. If it is only 11th in the list then imagine how some of the top cities in that list will be. Horrible. People have been complaining about poor quality of air in Delhi over the last few years, not sure what has been done about it.

 

[Gabbar Singh]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Deaths from outdoor pollution, 2016.<br><br>China: 1.1 million<br>India: 1.1 million<br>Pakistan: 129,000<br>Russia: 126,000<br>Bangladesh: 115,000<br>US: 105,000<br>Indonesia: 80,000<br>Nigeria: 69,000<br>Egypt: 68,000<br>Ukraine: 54,000<br>Brazil: 52,000<br>Japan: 47,000<br>Vietnam: 41,000<br>Germany: 38,000<br><br>(IHME)</p>— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) <a href="https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1147029844074618880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[pillionrider]

Acche din in North Indian cities

 

[sweep_shot]

Out of 100 polluted cities, 99 are in Asia! That's insane.

 

[Gabbar Singh]

This won’t help either.

Credit to the Chinese and Bangladeshis who appear to have controlled the growth of their population to manageable levels.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Estimated population in 2100.<br><br>Country: Population (millions)<br><br>India: 1660<br>China: 1004<br>Nigeria: 752<br>US: 450<br>DR Congo: 389<br>Pakistan: 364<br>Tanzania: 299<br>Indonesia: 242<br>Ethiopia: 242<br>Niger: 209<br>Uganda: 202<br>Egypt: 201<br>Brazil: 200<br>Bangladesh: 170<br>Philippines: 169<br><br>(<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnitedNations?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UnitedNations</a>)</p>— Deccan Chronicle World (@DCW0RLD) <a href="https://twitter.com/DCW0RLD/status/1146856769831878656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[troodon]

India needs more sex and people. 166 chores by 2050 are too less.

Population is our strength

 

[AdamM97]

Gotta give Bangladesh credit for population control.

 

[saeedhk]

This won’t help either.

Credit to the Chinese and Bangladeshis who appear to have controlled the growth of their population to manageable levels.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Estimated population in 2100.<br><br>Country: Population (millions)<br><br>India: 1660<br>China: 1004<br>Nigeria: 752<br>US: 450<br>DR Congo: 389<br>Pakistan: 364<br>Tanzania: 299<br>Indonesia: 242<br>Ethiopia: 242<br>Niger: 209<br>Uganda: 202<br>Egypt: 201<br>Brazil: 200<br>Bangladesh: 170<br>Philippines: 169<br><br>(<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnitedNations?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UnitedNations</a>)</p>— Deccan Chronicle World (@DCW0RLD) <a href="https://twitter.com/DCW0RLD/status/1146856769831878656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Almost no increase in Bangladesh’s population in 80 years?They have been very successful in lowering population growth but this seems a bit odd.

 

[finalfantasy7]

Yet no one asked a question on how is Nigeria population growing this fast 752million in 2100- I know its growing fast but it won't continue, a long with Congo Tanzania Ethiopia Niger and Uganda.

Yes Africa is improving - but the population in abov countries will not sore to these levels, they don't have the land to manage

 

[Gabbar Singh]

Those numbers appear to be from the 2018 UN report. The figures were revised slightly when they published the 2019 report.

https://population.un.org/wpp/Publications/Files/WPP2019_Highlights.pdf

 

[Gabbar Singh]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">India is facing an "air pollution emergency" says Greenpeace.<a href="https://t.co/6kJ2M7KzxI">https://t.co/6kJ2M7KzxI</a></p>— Quint Fit (@QuintFit) <a href="https://twitter.com/QuintFit/status/1163425126689325056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

https://m.timesofindia.com/city/nag...leshow/70744375.cms?__twitter_impression=true

 

[MP2011]

lol at the priorities of our current ruling dispensation.

And bigger lol at our media not to question them even once on this! For them, the bigger news is where was PC hiding?

How heroic CBI sleuths scaled walls of PC's residence before arresting him?

What did Feku do in Man Vs Wild?

Our media is at its all time low, with 9/10 media houses being paid stooges of govt.

 

[AamchiMumbaikar]

lol at the priorities of our current ruling dispensation.

And bigger lol at our media not to question them even once on this! For them, the bigger news is where was PC hiding?

How heroic CBI sleuths scaled walls of PC's residence before arresting him?

What did Feku do in Man Vs Wild?

Our media is at its all time low, with 9/10 media houses being paid stooges of govt.

Sounds like issues with most 3rd world countries and few 1st world. I believe we will see a dip in population in the next decade. We will reach 1.4 billion max and then start reducing but will go past CHN.

Most of us will be very old/ dead by the time we see IND with a population of < 1 billion (~ 2060/ 2070)

 

[MP2011]

Sounds like issues with most 3rd world countries and few 1st world.

We've 22/30 cities which are most polluted, that's 3/4th of top-30 cities. Looks like we're the most affected country from this issue rather than other 3rd world countries.

 

[Nadeemp]

Diwali smog chokes north India

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/15/india/toxic-smog-diwali-intl/index.html

 

[CanadianG00se]

Untrue. It’s actually stubble burning by farmers in Punjab and Haryana causing the smog. This year more than 74,000 stubble fires were lit in just state of Punjab alone which had resulted in thick smog.

Fire crackers burning were only allowed for two hours that too green fireworks. I’m not saying fireworks didn’t add to pollution, of course it did, but major problem is farmers burning their stubble crops. Some of these fake news are trying to put blame on firecrackers but ignoring the actual cause of pollution. If I’m not wrong Delhi had the strict rules regarding fireworks, so how can it cause so much pollution?

 

[Kaptan]

Its still much better than last 2-3 years.
I don't know about the numbers, but from experience I can say that post Diwali pollution level is below pre Diwali.
Its mostly because of light rain and wind I believe.

 

[jeetu]

Light rain in Delhi yesterday was god sent. It cleared up air by quiet a bit. Air is better this year as compared to few years before.

 

[CricketCartoons]

Untrue. It’s actually stubble burning by farmers in Punjab and Haryana causing the smog. This year more than 74,000 stubble fires were lit in just state of Punjab alone which had resulted in thick smog.

Fire crackers burning were only allowed for two hours that too green fireworks. I’m not saying fireworks didn’t add to pollution, of course it did, but major problem is farmers burning their stubble crops. Some of these fake news are trying to put blame on firecrackers but ignoring the actual cause of pollution. If I’m not wrong Delhi had the strict rules regarding fireworks, so how can it cause so much pollution?

Diwali firecrackers in delhi are like the last straw that broke the camel's back. There were more firecrackers burst in chennai but the air quality remained good.

 

[MenInG]

New Delhi: Polluted air is mostly coming from Pakistan, the Uttar Pradesh government told the Supreme Court today during the hearing on pollution in Delhi and nearby cities. That provoked a question from Chief Justice of India NV Ramana that UP's lawyers could not answer.

"Uttar Pradesh is downwind. Air is mostly coming from Pakistan. Whatever is happening is not necessarily in UP," senior lawyer Ranjit Kumar said, representing the UP government.

The Chief Justice said: "So you want the banning of industries in Pakistan?"

The UP government made the comments as it requested the Supreme Court not to impose restrictions on sugar mills and milk industries in the state to curb pollution.

Sugar mills are allowed to run for only eight hours and that is not enough, it argued.

The Supreme Court directed UP to discuss the subject with the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM).

The commission told the Supreme Court in a statement that flying squads would monitor compliance on air pollution measures. Schools and colleges in Delhi and neighbouring areas will stay closed for now.

On industrial pollution, the commission has said that industries not running on cleaner fuels would be allowed to operate only up to eight hours a day during weekdays and would be shut on weekends.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court had given a 24-hour deadline to the Centre and Delhi government to come up with a serious plan for pollution control measures. "In an emergency situation you have to work in emergent ways," the court said.

NDTV

 

[MenInG]

New Delhi: India's air pollution worsened in 2021, according to the World Air Quality Report released by IQAir, a Swiss firm. This ends a three-year trend of improving air quality. The average air pollution, measured in the lethal and microscopic PM2.5 pollutant, is 58.1 micrograms per cubic meter, which is more than 10 times the World Health Organisation's (WHO) air quality guidelines. No city in India met the WHO standard.
North India is worse. Delhi is the world's most polluted capital for the fourth consecutive year, with pollution rising almost 15 per cent over the previous year. Air pollution levels here were almost 20 times above the WHO's safety limits, with PM2.5 clocking in at 96.4 micrograms per cubic meter for the annual average. The safe limit is 5.

While Delhi's air pollution ranks at No. 4 globally, the world's most polluted place is Rajasthan's Bhiwadi, followed by Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Delhi's eastern border. Ten of the top 15 most polluted cities are in India and mostly around the national capital.

With 63, Indian cities dominate the list of 100 most polluted places. More than half are in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. An air quality 'life index' developed by the University of Chicago shows that residents in Delhi and Lucknow, for instance, could add about a decade to their life expectancy if air quality levels met the WHO's standards.

The major sources of air pollution include vehicular emissions, coal-fired power plants, industrial waste, biomass combustion for cooking and the construction sector. In fact, in November last year, several large power plants around Delhi as well as many industries were shut down for the first time because of severe levels of air pollution. The economic cost of the crisis to India is estimated at over $150 billion annually. The health impact is far worse with an estimated three deaths every minute linked to air pollution in addition to heart and lung diseases and many other severe health effects.

All six metro cities except Chennai saw a rise in air pollution levels last year.

Interestingly, government data for 2021 also shows that air quality in Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai worsened. A recent note in parliament showed that 'poor' to 'severe' air quality days numbered 168 in Delhi last year, up from 139 or a steep 21 per cent jump in one year; Kolkata had 83 such days vs 74 and Mumbai 39 vs 20 in the previous year.

However, when asked about India's poor showing in an earlier edition of the World Air Quality Report in 2020, the centre had dismissed such ranking, saying it was mainly based on satellite and other secondary data not validated by "proper ground truthing."

IQAir says its data is based "exclusively" on ground sensors and almost half globally were operated by governmental agencies.

The report makes a special mention about smoke from crop-burning after the rice harvest, a politically sensitive issue with parties usually reticent about taking action against farmers. This smoke is responsible for up to 45 per cent of pollution in Delhi, especially in the rice farms near Delhi in winter months, according to the report. Farmers do this because of a short window between the harvest and sowing of the next crop to get rid of the stubble.

What has changed, however, is that for the first time since 2014-15, when WHO reported Delhi was the most polluted city in the world, both Punjab and Delhi are governed by the same political party, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Punjab is where most of the crop-burning happens and now the focus will be what the AAP does to reduce air pollution this year onwards.

After the AAP's recent win in Punjab, party leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia told NDTV that farmers should be treated as asset and not liability.

The IQAir report notes that air quality in China continued to improve in 2021. In fact, its capital Beijing continued a five-year trend of improved air quality, which the report says is driven by emission control and reduction of coal power plant activity and other high-emission industries.

Incidentally, the cleanest air measured in India is in Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu. But even that is three times WHO's safe levels.

NDTV

 

[jaisan]

.ariyalur is the least developed district in tamilnadu
Not much industrial activity other than cement industry on its outskirts. My ancestral village is in this district.remains the Same for thirty years other than rapid Christianity conversion around it including changing the Name of villages.

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

The economic cost of the crisis to India is estimated at over $150 billion annually. The health impact is far worse with an estimated three deaths every minute linked to air pollution in addition to heart and lung diseases and many other severe health effects.

Brutal.

I am sure these numbers are similar in Pakistan.

Time to shut down polluting industry and plant trees.

 

[MenInG]

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[Champ_Pal]

Brutal.

I am sure these numbers are similar in Pakistan.

Time to shut down polluting industry and plant trees.

Without industries producing products in bulk, India and other over populated countries cannot provide cheap goods to its citizens.
Industries are necessary evils. They can only be phased out if the demand for products reduces which can only happen when population decreases.

 

[sweep_shot]

Without industries producing products in bulk, India and other over populated countries cannot provide cheap goods to its citizens.
Industries are necessary evils. They can only be phased out if the demand for products reduces which can only happen when population decreases.

This is probably true.

It is difficult for developing countries to ditch industries suddenly, unless there are cheap alternatives.

I am a fan of renewable energy and I think it should be the future.

 

[Champ_Pal]

This is probably true.

It is difficult for developing countries to ditch industries suddenly, unless there are cheap alternatives.

I am a fan of renewable energy and I think it should be the future.

Happy to see you agreeing with me on something.