Anilla Cherian - Air Pollution, Clean Energy and Climate Change

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Anilla Cherian

This edition first published 2022

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

Names: Cherian, Anilla, author.

Title: Air pollution, clean energy and climate change / Anilla Cherian.

Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021049302 (print) | LCCN 2021049303 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119771586 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119771593 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119771609 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Air–Pollution. | Clean energy. | Climatic changes.

Classification: LCC TD883 .C4355 2022 (print) | LCC TD883 (ebook) | DDC 363.739/2–dc23/eng/20211115

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Cover Image: © Anilla Cherian, photo by Alison Sheehy Photography

For Amma, Appa, Rohan and Arman whose courage and love I depend on, for those working towards a more sustainable and just future for all and for the remembrance of JWA that endures .

In the past few years, irrevocable losses have been experienced in the personal circles that each of us identifies as family/friends and in the intersecting circles that expand. This book has been written in the margins of grief, and in the midst of the real‐time widow work of making sure my sons who tragically lost their beloved father somehow didn’t shatter under the weight of sadness. But, writing a preface for a book that is inextricably interwoven with loss also comes with a sense of gratitude for the courage and loyalty of true friends, and for the tireless advocates who have spoken out for climate justice, especially those whose voices are no longer with us.

The unprecedented scope and scale of climatic impacts present a clear and present danger to our shared planet. Sadly, there is ample evidence that the immediate costs of climatic adversities will be felt more deeply by those most marginalized who lack safety nets and resilience measures to adapt to extreme climatic change. We now need to unequivocally acknowledge that the collective global failure to address climate change represents the largest inter‐generational human rights violation of our time. Our collective failure to act conclusively to curb climate change condemns the poorest and most vulnerable among us who have contributed the least to the problem of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to suffer the most. It is also undeniably clear that poor and vulnerable lives will continue to be devastated if we ignore the costs of the largest environmental health risk – air pollution – facing some of the most populous cities in the world.