99% of the world is breathing toxic air, report says

https://nypost.com/2022/04/04/99-of-the-world-is-breathing-toxic-air-report-says/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2013821

Comes from this study:

Billions of people still breathe unhealthy air: new WHO data

https://www.who.int/news/item/04-04-2022-billions-of-people-still-breathe-unhealthy-air-new-who-data

Meanwhile, the evidence base for the damage air pollution does to the human body has been growing rapidly and points to significant harm caused by even low levels of many air pollutants.

Particulate matter, especially PM_2.5, is capable of penetrating deep into the lungs and entering the bloodstream, causing cardiovascular, cerebrovascular (stroke) and respiratory impacts. There is emerging evidence that particulate matter impacts other organs and causes other diseases as well.

NO₂ is associated with respiratory diseases, particularly asthma, leading to respiratory symptoms (such as coughing, wheezing or difficulty breathing), hospital admissions and visits to emergency rooms

In the 117 countries monitoring air quality, the air in 17% of cities in high-income countries fall below the WHO’s Air Quality Guidelines for PM_2.5 or PM_10.  In low- and middle-income countries, air quality in less than 1% of the cities complies with WHO recommended thresholds.

Globally, low- and middle-income countries still experience greater exposure to unhealthy levels of PM compared to the global average, but NO₂ patterns are different, showing less difference between the high- and low- and middle-income countries.

About 4000 cities/human settlements in 74 countries collect NO₂ data at ground level. Aggregated, their measurements show that only 23% of people in these places breathe annual average concentrations of NO₂ that meet levels in the recently updated version of WHO’s Air Quality Guidelines.

metmike: Note that CO2 is not mentioned 1 time in this report. CO2 is NOT pollution. There absolutely is NO climate crisis.

I realized that a thread from a few years ago completely missed this topic and updated it.

The real environmental crisis's/insects dying-dead zones-aquifers drying up-plastics in the ocean-landfills/trash-over consumption of natural resources-REAL pollution in the air/soil/water (metmike is a PRACTICING environmentalist): April 2019

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/27498/