Coal and other fossil fuel emissions have not only raised global temperatures to alarming levels, but these emissions are also responsible for poisoning the very air we breathe. The impact of rising air pollution around the world is nothing short of catastrophic.
New research reveals that over 8 million people die prematurely due to outdoor particulate matter produced from burning fossil fuels. Adding premature deaths attributed to indoor pollution (due to burning wood for fuel, for instance) to this number would cause the annual air pollution toll to exceed by another couple of million. To put these numbers in context, air pollution’s annual death toll is now higher than that from smoking….
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