JUNE 20198id you know that air pollution is a more ruth-less killer than alcohol abuse or malaria? Were you aware that 25 percent of the global deaths caused by air contamination take place in In-dia? In 2017, 1.2 million Indians lost their lives due to the unbelievably terrible state of the air we breathe, so much so that these numbers accounted for more deaths than those caused by smoking. Are all these figures shocking you into a state of despair and hopelessness? Well, you must know that you can't be blamed. The situation is exactly as grave and depressing as you just realized it to be! Serious health implications of India's air pollution Air Pollution may have just now become a matter of the election discourse, but its effects on our health have been severely palpable for a long time now. The worst affected are our children. As per some studies, the incidence of child asthma cases is on a surprising upward trajectory on a global level. What is not sur-prising is that 1 out of these 10 cases can be linked to pollution caused by road traffic, as per a study by The Lancet Planetary Health Journal. Further, The State of The Global Air 2019 Report released recently on Himanshu is helping shape the future of indoor air quality in India using real-time data and proprietary technology and is focused on solving challenging problems in the domain of environmental sustainability with a large social impactTO BREATHE OR NOT TO BREATHE: HEALTH IMPACT OF AIR POLLUTION & HOW TO COMBAT ITBy Himanshu Agarwal, Founder & CEO, Magneto CleanTech IN MY OPINIOND
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