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1. What about PM2.5 pollution? PM2.5 exposure is the pollutant most likely to lead to human sickness and death. Every 10 microgram reduction in PM2.5 can increase life expectancy by 6 months!
2. What about O2 production by trees? How will oxygen be replenished if trees are gone?
CO2 reduction is 5% of the benefit, even if you take the offset numbers seriously (conversion from private vehicle to metro). 95% of the benefits are due to PM2.5 absorption, O2 generation, temperature reduction. These are all quantifiable.
The writer should also have written about the survival of no of trees out of 5,35,150 saplings and at what stages of life they are in (how old they are in). Planting saplings only is not enough. They become important only when they have survived for 7-8 years, when their roots are firmly in place within the soil of that area.
Similarly, claims of 36.2 lakh tonnes is laughable? It’s spread over 10 years as the writer says. So, the no doesn’t present full picture. Did the writer check per year no? Also, out of 36.2 lakh tonnes in 10 years, how much has been on account of new saplings and how much is due to other initiatives like solar etc? Similarly, it must also be checked from independent experts like people from IIT about the impact on environment due to new saplings (will be negligible) in their early years.
Ms. Bedi must find out, will get amazing (and eyeopening) information. Claims of DMRC hardly gets investigated and everything appears goodie-goodie. Therefore, it’s more imperative to get into the details which are missing in this article.
Those of us who have seen saplings been planted in small towns, will know that not 10, but even 100 saplings are not enough to compensate for one felled tree… UNLESS, a foolproof iron grill fencing is made around each sapling, right from the ground to upto a height of, say, five feet. Reason? The cattle, and goats and donkeys will chew up the tender sapling as soon as they can. If the authorities can ensure the protection, then they may plant even 3 instead of 10 saplings.
Good initiative by Delhi Metro. No doubt, metro rails contribute their mite to reduction of carbon footprint. I have two simple questions: Does Delhi have any space to palnt ten saplings in place of 43000 plus trees cut? As a regular visitor to Delhi, I see it as mostly a concrete jungle. Second, how does one estimate that 36 lakh tons of carbon was sucked out? Any scientifically acceptable method is available to support this determination?
1. What about PM2.5 pollution? PM2.5 exposure is the pollutant most likely to lead to human sickness and death. Every 10 microgram reduction in PM2.5 can increase life expectancy by 6 months!
2. What about O2 production by trees? How will oxygen be replenished if trees are gone?
CO2 reduction is 5% of the benefit, even if you take the offset numbers seriously (conversion from private vehicle to metro). 95% of the benefits are due to PM2.5 absorption, O2 generation, temperature reduction. These are all quantifiable.
The writer should also have written about the survival of no of trees out of 5,35,150 saplings and at what stages of life they are in (how old they are in). Planting saplings only is not enough. They become important only when they have survived for 7-8 years, when their roots are firmly in place within the soil of that area.
Similarly, claims of 36.2 lakh tonnes is laughable? It’s spread over 10 years as the writer says. So, the no doesn’t present full picture. Did the writer check per year no? Also, out of 36.2 lakh tonnes in 10 years, how much has been on account of new saplings and how much is due to other initiatives like solar etc? Similarly, it must also be checked from independent experts like people from IIT about the impact on environment due to new saplings (will be negligible) in their early years.
Ms. Bedi must find out, will get amazing (and eyeopening) information. Claims of DMRC hardly gets investigated and everything appears goodie-goodie. Therefore, it’s more imperative to get into the details which are missing in this article.
Those of us who have seen saplings been planted in small towns, will know that not 10, but even 100 saplings are not enough to compensate for one felled tree… UNLESS, a foolproof iron grill fencing is made around each sapling, right from the ground to upto a height of, say, five feet. Reason? The cattle, and goats and donkeys will chew up the tender sapling as soon as they can. If the authorities can ensure the protection, then they may plant even 3 instead of 10 saplings.
Good initiative by Delhi Metro. No doubt, metro rails contribute their mite to reduction of carbon footprint. I have two simple questions: Does Delhi have any space to palnt ten saplings in place of 43000 plus trees cut? As a regular visitor to Delhi, I see it as mostly a concrete jungle. Second, how does one estimate that 36 lakh tons of carbon was sucked out? Any scientifically acceptable method is available to support this determination?