“How Is This Ok”: Bhumi Pednekar Brings Attention To Delhi’s Poor AQI
Before that, Bhumi Pednekar re-posted another weather update by journalist Faye D’Souza. It mentioned that Delhi had a 1710 air-quality index (AQI) which was deemed to be “hazardous”. Uploading the post, Bhumi wrote, “Clean air, It is your right. Wake up.”
Last year, Bhumi Pednekar, who founded the non-profit advocacy platform Climate Warrior, raised the issue of climate change in Melbourne, Australia. Addressing the people at an event she said, “We are dealing with the adverse effects of climate change as we speak, our generation, everybody, we are all going to face it and it is not something that affects only certain classes, in front of nature’s wrath we are all are equal. I think climate change is something that needs to be spoken about. But at that time nobody spoke about it, that we’re in a crisis, that we are in a state of emergency and that climate change is the largest looming threat that humanity has ever faced,” as per a report by