Global warming is real and it is happening, whether you believe it or not. More real and believable than that is the problem of pollution.
Michael Pinsky, a British artist took it upon himself to raise awareness about the issue of pollution around the world by giving people a chance to experience it themselves.
He made an art installation which is five Pollution Pods and emulates atmosphere and pollution from cities like Beijing and wait for it…Delhi.
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The pods are placed in Somerset House in London. They are aimed to replicate the atmosphere which includes air fumes, temperature and the smell of that particular city. The 5 chosen cities were selected because all five of them have different pollution problems.
According to The Guardian, Pinsky said,
“I have tried to distil the whole bodily sense of being in each place.”
Tautra is supposed to be with the purest air, while London has a smell called the ‘Living Diesel’.
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According to a Twitter user, people are unable to spend more than a few minutes in the pod replicating Delhi’s pollution.
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“Some people have said the New Delhi pod is just unbearable. But that’s what people experience every single day.”
Pinsky was commissioned by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, for the ‘Climart project’ to create the pollution pods. The main aim of the installation was to create more awareness amongst people about the environment and effect of pollution on people living in heavily populated cities in India and China.
The capital of India, Delhi, has been facing a really high level of pollution for quite some time now. It has been in the news, both national and international. It is good to see artists striving to create awareness about this problem.
Hopefully, more people will now care for the environment before the earth’s entire atmosphere becomes toxic for us to live in.