Causes of air pollution
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Causes of air pollution
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1.Difficulty in breathing or
.Respiratory illness
2.HEART DISEASES
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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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