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Diesel Soot, by any other name, is just as toxic ! GangaPrasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist gprao64@gmail.com gprasadrao@hotmail.com Caveat : This blog pre-supposes the reader has perused an earlier blog ‘Cause Bond-based Political cycle Government, NGDP Optimization and Budgeting’, gprao64.blogspot.com “kuchch milaega... .... ....Sheikh OC Kar”. That was all of 45 years ago when I heard a voice in my head suggesting I walk in to, and sniff the black soot vented by an MSRTC bus as it laboured past me trudging home from KV Ambarnath, stopped, then started with a belch of black soot. That I mocked the suggestion, and yet heard “Response....Record” as I continued my walk, is a different matter. The problem, that of exposure to diesel soot suffered by pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, residents, commuters, and shoppers continues unabated to this day. In fact, if data were collected, collated and published, it’d reveal that the population-wide exposure t

..... And Nero fiddled while Rome burned? https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Wyr0xZjMqTX0p6Y01XeGc4Qnc GangaPrasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist .......So says history, but an evolutionary millennium later, are we any different? We have, across a century of fossil-fuel powered electricity and road-motoring, reduced the very life-giving air we breathe. From a warming greenhouse that melts glaciers, icebergs, even ice-continents, cardiac stress due warmer evenings, climate and urban heat-island-externality-reinforcing indoor air-conditioning, sea-erosion and drowning islands from rising oceans, typhoons and storm surges, the impacts are real and palpable. Why then do we turn a blind eye to an exacerbating disaster? Didn’t the Political we elected delay solar and wind technology decades, and whittle down a carbon tax/permit regime until and eventually it turned a non-binding joke of the century? And what do we have now? A run-away global smokestack economy that has more