air pollution is dangerous.
Air pollution By – Bhoomi Motiani Air pollution is hard to escape, no matter how rich an area you live in. It is all around us. Microscopic pollutants in the air can slip past our body’s defences, penetrating deep into our respiratory and circulatory system, damaging our lungs, heart and brain. Air pollution is closely linked to climate change - the main driver of climate change is fossil fuel combustion which is also a major contributor to air pollution - and efforts to mitigate one can improve the other. This month, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that coal-fired electricity must end by 2050 if we are to limit global warming rises to 1.5C. If not, we may see a major climate crisis in just 20 years. People experience a wide range of health effects from being exposed to air pollution. Effects can be broken down into short-term effects and long-term effects. Polluted air is a public health hazard that cannot be evaded. It is widely known that...