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The impact of air pollution on our health

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  Ecological problems, which are caused by us humans, are one of the biggest problems of our time we need to deal with. We are also the reason these problems occur, because not only do we destroy the nature, which we need to live, humans also destroy themselves by creating problems, which cause an immense amount of harm to our health. One of these problems is air pollution. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) about 4.2million people die every year due to ambient (outdoor) air pollution and 3.8 million people die due to household(indoor) air pollution- which makes a total of 8 million deaths every year. Indoor Air Pollution Household or indoor air pollution mainly occurs in Asian and African countries, where polluting fuels and technologies are used every day at their homes for cooking, heating and lighting in places with bad ventilation. The ones who are mainly affected are women and children who spend more time indoors, breathing the polluted air. But this can be

Air pollution - the damage it does to our planet

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  In today’s society it’s common knowledge that our planet is getting polluted 24/7, mostly with carbon dioxide better known as CO 2 . This happens just by the way we live, which includes needing food and clothes, travelling by car and using our electronic devices. It seems like there is no way not producing any CO 2 . However - what is even so bad about the air pollution?   Damage on the planet Air pollution has some serious effects on the environment and some common environmental impacts include:  ·          Acid rain ·          Glaciers melting ·          Poisoning of animals and plants ·          Ozone depletion in the stratosphere ·          Sea levels Increasing ·          Climate change The most known and also biggest environmental problem would be the climate change or global warming, which is caused by the increasing level of greenhouse gases. Such greenhouse gases again cause greenhouse effects.   The greenhouse effect is a natural process that warms