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When Air Becomes Death
The Process of Breathing Starts at birth and continues until death. We breathe around 25,000 times every day, Inhaling 10,000 or more times of air everyday. It is a basic body function meant to sustain life. But today, breathing kills; it takes the lives of approximately seven million people every year globally. This is because of the presence of pollutants in the air, which are poison for our body and seriously damage our heath. Dr Maria Nehra, the World Health Organization's air pollutant director, has called it a "global health emergency". Ninety eight percent of India's children breathe air that is inferior to the WHO standards. Nearly 25 percent deaths in children under five are directly or indirectly related to air pollution.
The key documented sources of air pollution are burning fossil fuels, Automobile exhaust,burning of garbage and landfills and all smoke-emitting industries, especially coal fixed power plans and dust from construction sides and roadsides.
How Air Pollution Makes Us Sick
Nervous System
Children
Under-development of cognitive abilities due to Neuro-inflammation.
All Ages
Neuro-inflammation and 5-10 times higher incidence of brain attacks (paralysis)
Eyes
Redness,Irritation, Watering, Infections.
Nose
Irritation, Allergies,Sinusitis
Throat
Soreness,Infections
Cardivascular Systems
Children
Premature Hypertension
All Ages
Hypertension,5-10 times higher incidence of heart attacks.
Respiratory System
Children
Under-Development of lung capacity.
All Ages
Cough, difficulty in breathing, chest pain and tightness,asthma,chest infections,pneumonia,chronic bronchitis (or chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases) lung cancer.
Reproductive Systems
Adverse Impact on reproductive systems including low sperm counts.
Conclusion
The worse affected are children,elderly and pregnant women.
Children
Under-development of lungs and brain,pneumonia,cancers and premature deaths.
Pregnant Women
Congenital defects, low birth-weight babies, death of child during pregnancy,premature labour,problems after birth (carbon particles) have been demonstrated to be present in the placenta).
WHAT IS TO BE DONE
Does wearing a mask help? Ordinarily masks made of cloth,etcetera do not help. N95 or N99-grade mask works if worn snugly around the nose and mouth. It traps most of the PM, although gases still go through. However, it gives protection only on as long as it is worn and has other practical challenges. Thus, while it may serve as protection for shorter periods, it is definitely not a solution.
The real solution lies in identifying the root cause and fixing the problem at the source. The sources essentially are smoke and dust. Thus anything that produces smoke and causes dust to be added to air is a cause of pollution and it's rectification is the problem. People are often looking for a quick fix solution to rectify the problem overnight, but unfortunately there is none.
Burning of fossil fuels, along with garbage,remains the biggest source of smoke today, and a rapid decline and shift to cleaner renewable sources of energy are the long term answers to this malady. The time to act was yesterday but it is never to late.
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