The impact of air pollution on our health
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...