imagine you were caught in polluted air describe your feelings
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SUFFOCATION , NAUSEA , DIFFICULTY IN BREATHING , LESS VISIBILITY , HEADACHE, PROLONGED XPOSURE CAN CAUSE SERIOUS HEALTH HAZARD
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Air pollution
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There's nothing quite like opening the door and breathing fresh, clean air—but how clean is the air you're breathing right now? Unless you're a scientist with a chemistry lab at your fingertips, there's no real way of knowing. The gases you're sucking up through your nose could be slowly killing you: according to the World Health Organization, around 4.2 million people die prematurely from the effects of polluted, outdoor air every single year, while a further 3.8 million die due to dirty indoor air. Air pollution is a huge problem—and not just for people living in smog-choked cities: through such things as global warming and damage to the ozone layer, it has the potential to affect us all. So what exactly causes this major environmental issue and what can we do about it? Let's take a closer look!
What is air pollution?
Air lets our living planet breathe—it's the mixture of gases that fills the atmosphere, giving life to the plants and animals that make Earth such a vibrant place. Broadly speaking, the air is almost entirely made up of two gases (78 per cent nitrogen and 21 per cent oxygen), with a few other gases (such as carbon dioxide and argon) present in much smaller quantities. We can breathe ordinary air all day long with no ill effects, so let's use that simple fact to define air pollution, something like this:
As with water pollution and land contamination, it's the quantity (or concentration) of a chemical in the air that makes the difference between "harmless" and "pollution." Carbon dioxide (CO2), for example, is present in the air around you at a typical concentration of less than 0.05 per cent and breathing it in usually does no harm (you breathe it out all day long); but air with an extremely high concentration of carbon dioxide (say, 5–10 per cent) is toxic and could kill you in a matter of minutes. Since Earth's atmosphere is very turbulent—many of us live in windy countries—air pollution will often disperse relatively quickly. In less enlightened times, factory operators thought that if they built really high smokestacks, the wind would simply blow their smoke away, diluting and dispersing it so it wouldn't be a problem. The only trouble was, Earth is a much smaller place than we think and pollution doesn't always disappear so conveniently.
Forest fires (which often start naturally) can produce huge swathes of smoke that drift for miles over neighbouring cities, countries, or continents. Giant volcanic eruptions can spew so much dust into the atmosphere that they block out significant amounts of sunlight and cause the entire planet to cool down for a year or more. [4] Radioactive rocks can release a gas called radon when they decay, which can build up in the basements of buildings with serious effects on people's health (each year, around 21,000 people die of lung cancer, due to radon gas, in the United States).
All these things are examples of serious air pollution that happen without any help from humans; although we can adapt to natural air pollution, and try to reduce the disruption it causes, we can never stop it happening completely. For the rest of this article, we'll consider only the "unnatural" types of pollution: the problems that people cause—and the ones we can solve. PLEASE MARK AS BRAINLIEST.