{"id":67543,"date":"2024-10-29T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/oct\/29\/air-pollution-campaign-lahore-dryden-goodwin-breathe"},"modified":"2024-10-29T19:00:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T10:00:06","slug":"i-was-asked-to-find-a-volunteer-for-an-air-pollution-campaign-in-lahore-i-couldnt-find-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67543","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was asked to find a volunteer for an air pollution campaign in Lahore \u2013 I couldn\u2019t find anyone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Pakistan\u2019s second biggest city takes the lead in the poor air quality index, one artist and activist struggled to find people who cared<\/p>\n<p>It is \u201csmog season\u201d in Lahore. Along with cities in the plains of the Punjab province, October is now popularly called the fifth season in Pakistan as the burning of stubble in the fields after the rice harvest takes the already poor air quality to record lows.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Lahore took the world lead on several measures of poor air quality. According to Swiss-based IQAir, which partners with the UN and other agencies to measure pollution, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqair.com\/gb\/world-air-quality-ranking\">air quality index<\/a> was 299 \u2013 just two points short of hazardous, followed by Delhi scoring 207. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnow.gov\/aqi\/aqi-basics\/\">AQI<\/a> of 151 to 200 is classified as \u201cunhealthy\u201d, 201 to 300 \u201cvery unhealthy\u201d and more than 300 as \u201chazardous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/oct\/29\/air-pollution-campaign-lahore-dryden-goodwin-breathe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Pakistan\u2019s second biggest city takes the lead in the poor air quality index, one artist and activist struggled to find people who caredIt is \u201csmog season\u201d in Lahore. Along with cities in the plains of the Punjab province, October is now popularly ca&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,546,91,65,59,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-environment","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67544,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67543\/revisions\/67544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}