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9/10 People Worldwide Breathe Dangerous Air


Claire.

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Nine in Ten People Worldwide Breathe Dangerous Air Every Day

You can’t see it, but the air around you is vital to your health. A breath of fresh air brings oxygen to your body and can put a smile on your face. But nine out of ten people worldwide shouldn’t be smiling when they consider the air they have to breathe. That’s the latest from the World Health Organization, writes Adam Vaughan for The Guardian. The agency just released a report that confirms that 92 percent of the world’s population lives in places where air pollution levels are above acceptable norms.

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There was good news for one region: the United States. The Americas was the only region in the report that had more than 20 percent of its population living in places that comply with the standards. But there are nonetheless 12 air pollution-related deaths per 100,000 people in the United States, where an estimated 38,043 people die from air pollution each year.

Insane. Africa is red hot on that map

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Nice, I'm safe in Canada.

About red Africa, it's the Sahara dust which spoil the air:

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In some rural areas, concentrations of air pollution are even higher than in urban areas, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean and African regions, which are close to deserts that experience major dust storms.

My father have been in Burkina Faso a few years back and he said there was orange dust everywhere. You sweep clean something and its dusty again within a few hours. Which is why the Great Green Wall of Africa an even more useful initiative.

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turns out life is the leading cause of... death.

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Even in 'safe' countries like the US, nearly 40,000 people still die each year due to air pollution. That's just nuts.. although not as nuts as the 600,000 who die in India.

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This is sad.  If Africa ever becomes industrialized their pollution levels will really be bad.

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