'You have two killers in the air': India's other deadly pandemic | Climate News
A deadly peril is smothering our cities, killing four times as many people in one year as COVID-19. Across the world nearly nine million died from it in 2018, and in India, it claims the life of one child every three minutes. The peril is pollution and the victims have died simply by breathing in the air around them. Polluted air. Nine million dead. And the source of the toxic fug engulfing cities? Fossil fuels, mostly. Greenhouse gas emissions from coal, oil and gas are simultaneously forcing global warming, while doing a hit-and-run number on city populations through the release of tiny poi...
Source: aljazeera.com