Target: Droupadi Murmu, President of India
Goal: Urgently address sky-rocketing pollution levels across India for the sake of environment and public health.
During the winter months, thick blankets of pollution drape over nearly every major city in the world’s most densely populated nation: India. These lingering toxins obscure major monuments and slash the average lifespan of the inhabitants exposed to them by a dozen years. Different sectors of society point the finger at each other.
Farmers are accused of engaging in an illegal practice known as stubble-burning, which is estimated to contribute to roughly a third of India’s pollution. Farmers turn the blame right back to major fossil fuel industries, which go about their polluting business largely unchecked by the government. And researchers insist that heavy transportation and road construction projects are a driving force in dangerous pollution levels that are more than 25 times the threshold deemed as safe by the World Health Organization.
The one indisputable fact is that India’s leaders are doing next to nothing to confront this crisis in a long-term, solution-driven manner. As such a major contributor of global pollution, India’s problem will become the world’s problem. Sign the petition below to demand long-overdue action from careless politicians.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear President Murmu,
Pollution season in India is rapidly becoming a constant and persistent event. This toxic atmosphere is taking over a decade off the lives of city inhabitants, who are routinely breathing in air that far exceeds the threshold considered safe by the World Health Organization. Short-term, seasonal solutions are no longer acceptable because pollution is no longer a seasonal issue.
If you and your political allies wish to establish yourselves as true leaders, you will devise and implement an immediate plan of action (supported by long-term insights of experts) to begin resolving this dangerous crisis. Otherwise, simply breathing in India will become a death sentence.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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