India is home to six of the world’s most polluted cities, and the air we are breathing causes more deaths than tobacco smoking or poor nutrition. Even the air inside our homes is toxic for our children and families, causing cancers, reduced life expectancy, lung damage and air borne allergies. Here are a few staggering facts that will leave you alarmed.
With the impact a daily ritual like burning wood can make on the environment and our health, is the government’s ‘Give It Up’ campaign enough to bridge the gap in supply of clean fuel to rural India?
Cleaning the air pollutants around us may not be as easy as replacing an adulterated food item with a pure one but we all need to be the change we want to see. We all must stop ignoring this invisible danger to ensure that we and our children have most primary requirement to live healthy-clean air.
