{"id":1017601,"date":"2021-11-16T00:29:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1017601"},"modified":"2021-11-16T00:29:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:29:24","slug":"vatican-slams-india-over-cop-copout-in-midst-of-pollution-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vatican-slams-india-over-cop-copout-in-midst-of-pollution-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Slams India over COP-Copout in Midst of \u2018Pollution Lockdown\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvatican-slams-india-over-cop-copout-in-midst-of-pollution-lockdown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1017601&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME, Italy \u2014 The Vatican newspaper <em>L\u2019Osservatore Romano<\/em> gave frontpage coverage to India\u2019s alleged hypocrisy Monday, underscoring its reticence to commit to CO2 reductions in Glasgow while experiencing dangerous levels of smog in New Delhi and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osservatoreromano.va\/it\/news\/2021-11\/quo-260\/lockdown-per-inquinamento.html\">article<\/a> titled \u201cLockdown for Pollution,\u201d <em>L\u2019Osservatore Romano<\/em> reports that authorities in New Delhi have closed schools and construction sites this week due to a \u201chealth emergency\u201d caused by dangerous levels of air pollution.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The article suggests that given its lack of air cleanliness, India should have been eager to sign on for drastic restrictions of carbon dioxide emissions at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, which concluded this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In point of fact, however, the 10-page Glasgow Climate Pact nowhere <a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/sites\/default\/files\/resource\/cma2021_L16_adv.pdf\">mentions<\/a> the word \u201cpollution,\u201d echoing the bizarre absence of pollution references in its predecessor, the 2015 Paris Climate Accord.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18762242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236271650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18762242 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236271650-1024x665-1.jpg\" alt=\"India&#039;s Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives for the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 at SECC on November 1, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. 2021 sees the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. The conference will run from 31 October for two weeks, finishing on 12 November. It was meant to take place in 2020 but was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by Phil Noble - Pool\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives for the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 at SECC on November 1, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Phil Noble \u2013 Pool\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide \u2014 a colorless, odorless, non-toxic, non-polluting gas \u2014 would contribute nothing to resolving India\u2019s very real problem of air pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The stated purpose of the COP26 conference was addressing the issue of climate change, not looking for ways to assist countries whose citizens die every day from the overly high concentration of fine particulate matter in the air.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15729362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1230575302.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15729362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1230575302.png\" alt=\"People gather in front of India Gate amid smoggy conditions in New Delhi on January 14, 2021. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD \/ AFP) (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather in front of India Gate amid smoggy conditions in New Delhi on January 14, 2021. (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>India\u2019s people are not dying from climate change but pollution, and COP26 offered it no relief.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/health-topics\/air-pollution#tab=tab_1\">pollution<\/a>, measured in annual mean concentrations of fine particulate matter, \u201ckills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year\u201d and \u201c9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>WHO also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/facts-in-pictures\/detail\/children&#039;s-environmental-health\">estimates<\/a> that one in four child deaths \u201ccould be prevented by cleaning up the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UK-based&nbsp;<em>Lancet<\/em>&nbsp;medical journal similarly revealed in a landmark 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/10\/20\/lancet-pollution-not-co2-largest-environmental-cause-disease-death\/\">study<\/a> that air pollution and&nbsp;<em>not carbon dioxide<\/em>&nbsp;is the greatest environmental cause of disease and death in the world, and yet it is largely ignored in international ecological programs.<\/p>\n<p>In its study,&nbsp;the <em>Lancet<\/em>&nbsp;found that pollution-related diseases were responsible for some 9 million premature deaths in 2015, or nearly 15 times more than from&nbsp;<em>all<\/em>&nbsp;wars and other forms of violence combined.<\/p>\n<p>Pollution is not only the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today, the study found, but diseases caused by pollution were responsible for roughly 16 percent of all deaths worldwide \u2014 \u201cthree times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For those truly concerned with human health and preventing premature deaths, a shift in attention from climate change to air pollution would be a welcome step.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME, Italy \u2014 The Vatican newspaper L\u2019Osservatore Romano gave frontpage coverage to India\u2019s alleged hypocrisy Monday, underscoring its reticence to commit to CO2 reductions in Glasgow while experiencing dangerous levels &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}