Daily dose of fresh air.
Part of my summer holidays consisted of working on summer projects as part of my school grades. We would get to choose a topic of our choice from an assortment and I picked Global warming for three consecutive years. Without the internet, most of my information came from outdated encyclopedia and the news, the latter almost never covering anything. I was shocked to see how grave an issue was being treated as something trivial by the governments and leading corporations alike. I took a no fire crackers stance, which my father inculcated further in me by never buying me firecrackers again once I brought this up to him. The Supreme Court of India recently banned the sale of fire crackers, the aftermath of last years Diwali causing AQI's to spike up to emergency levels. Almost ironically my father and I were the only ones affected by the air pollution I can never forget the sleepless nights I would spend rubbing my eyes or the gallons of phlegm I would cough up. My parents were...
