How Air Pollution Affects our Health and Destroys Flora and Fauna

How Air Pollution Affects our Health and Destroys Flora and Fauna

Air pollution affects our health in a very direct way. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that air pollution kills “an estimated seven million people worldwide every year”

The toxic agents causing this disaster are particulate matter, carbon dioxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide. These toxic agents are released by household combustion devices, motor vehicles, industrial facilities, and forest fires. 

At this very moment, we all breathe air that exceeds the guidelines of the WHO. Low and middle-income countries suffer the most. 

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Low-Carbon Transportation is Not Enough, More is Urgently Required

Low-Carbon Transportation is Not Enough, More is Urgently Required

Low-carbon transportation is not enough to curb climate change. There is no longer any debate about the fact that combustion engines are unsustainable. Climate change is every day in the news.

Countries flood. Forests burn. Oceans are full of plastic. Biodiversity declines at an unprecedented rate. The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat are full of toxins.

97% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a major contributor to climate change, comes from the direct burning of fossil fuels. Black carbon, a component of the particulate matter discharged in exhaust fumes, causes respiratory and carcinogenic diseases and is also a major contributor to climate change.

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