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Causes of air pollution​

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Answered by ahalyaberro
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Answer:

Causes of air pollution

Explanation:

1.Difficulty in breathing or

.Respiratory illness

2.HEART DISEASES

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Answered by Anonymous
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Air pollution:-

The presence of unwanted, harmful substance in the air is termed as air pollution. All additional gases, particles or odours in the air can be termed as pollution.

  • Air pollution causes millions of premature deaths every year worldwide.
  • In 2012, 7 million people died because of Air pollution
  • 88% of deaths occured in developing countries
  • It is the world's largest environmental risk

Causes of Air pollution:-

  • Smoke emission from factories
  • Smoke emission from vehicles
  • Radioactive fallout causes air pollution
  • Natural causes like volcanic eruption
  • Burning of fossil fuels
  • Toxic gases

Household and farming chemicals:-

  • Crop dusting
  • Fumigating homes
  • Household cleaning products
  • Paints
  • Fertilizer
  • Pesticides, weedicides and insecticides

Effect of Air pollution:-

  • Birth effects
  • Chronic and Acute Bronchitis
  • Long term injuries to lungs
  • Respiratory illness
  • Heart attacks
  • Cancer
  • Brain Damage
  • Breathing polluted air may cause infection to eyes and nose
  • Increase in the number of asthma patients
  • Acid rains [It destroys trees, farms, crops, animals and also pollutes the water bodies]
  • Smog [fog + smoke = smog] is very harmful for those who breathe it and it contains an harmful ozone

What we can do?

  • Drive less
  • Change our industries
  • Control bushfire
  • Support responsible products and policies
  • Industrial area and residential area must maintain distance
  • The chimneys in the industries should be made tall
  • Coal should not be used as less as possible
  • Vehicles must be designed with emission control system.
  • Vehicles must get an regular maintenance check
  • Join carpools, van pools and use public transport
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