Although almost everyone in the world now breathes air that is polluted in some way, the unfolding story of air pollution is one of environmental inequality.
Every time Mithilesh turns on her stove to cook, her eyes begin to burn. The small home the 29-year-old housewife shares with her husband, daughter, son and elderly in-laws in the slums of the Indian capital Delhi quickly fills up with smoke, making it hard for anyone to see.that uses firewood as fuel – since she was 13 years old. She often has difficulty breathing and experiences uncontrolled bouts of coughing.
"It's also a very gendered issue, affecting women the most," says Sweety Sharma, programme manager at Cornerstone Knowledge Builders, an organisation working to create awareness about the hidden effects of indoor pollution in low-income communities in New Delhi."Women painstakingly collect the firewood from forests everyday and are constantly exposed to those toxic fumes while cooking.
Scientists say it is the burning of fossil fuels in particular that has led to the rapid increase in deaths due to outdoor air pollution around the world. Some studies have put even higher figures on the death toll, with perhaps as many asBurning coal, petrol and diesel is a major source of fine particulate matter known as PM2.5s. It consists of tiny particles less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter that when inhaled canOther nations also struggle to control levels of this pollutant.
Although there have been improvements in urban air quality in the US, poorer and marginalised groups are still exposed to the worst air pollution In their study, Polasky and his colleagues investigated the 131,000 premature deaths caused by PM2.5 exposure in the US in 2015. They concluded thatwhile 29,000 were from other sources, mostly wildfires.
Sources of particulate matter pollution arise every year, from newly built coal-fired power plants, to outbreaks of wildfires, says Catherine Hausman, associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor."I don't see this problem going away any time soon," she says.
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