Air Pollution in 2017 caused more than 5 million deaths in the year 2017. Out of these 5 million, 1.2 Million of these were Indians. This is seen properly is a notion of concern because who knows who might become the next victim of Air Pollution. Stay with us and we will tell you all there is to know about the problem.
As per the State of Global Air, the 5 million deaths were caused due to stroke, diabetes, heart attack, lung cancer and much more. This happened due to long-term exposure to Air Pollution. China and India contributed over half of the deaths due to Air Pollution. In both countries, there were more than 1.2 million deaths caused due to exposure to the bad air.
As per a report from the Health Effects Institute, Air Pollution is the Third Highest Cause of Deaths in India. As per the report, the life of a South Asian child born today will be shortened by two years and six months growing up in current high levels of air pollution, while the global life expectancy loss is 20 months.
Coming onto the techniques which our government has applied to counter the problem are the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwal Yojana, Household LPG Program, Accelerated Bharat Stage 6 Clean Vehicle Standards and the new national Air Clean Program are being depended for reduction of Air Pollution in India.
If everything goes as per plan, at least Air-Pollution won’t be the cause for reduced life expectancy among an infant.
Worldwide, air pollution is responsible for more deaths than many better-known risk factors such as malnutrition, alcohol use, and physical inactivity, said the report.
Each year, more people die globally from air-pollution-related diseases than from road traffic injuries or malaria, the study said.
We as citizens can also take steps to reduce air-pollution. For eg. Using Public Transport instead of cars if traveling alone. We all have studied ways to reduce air-pollution but it would only benefit us if people start applying them in their daily lives.
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