How much does smog and air pollution shorten our lives? | DW News

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  • Опубліковано 3 кві 2019
  • Smog and air pollution are major problems around the world, and we know they impact our health. A recent study estimates that toxic air shortens our lives by 20 months on average. That's according to the Health Effects Institute in their latest report on the state of global air quality. Smog and air pollution are now bigger killers than malaria and road accidents - and comparable to smoking.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 32

  • @jamsbong
    @jamsbong 5 років тому +7

    Majority of the electricity goes to manufacturing industry. Residential usage is very minimal. The correct advice would have been to change the electricity source and regulate the pollution from factories.
    Honestly, that so called 'expert' is pathetic.

  • @joeg297
    @joeg297 7 місяців тому +1

    It's not a matter of how much it shortens our lives. It's a matter of how much it ruins our quality of life while we're living. 💡

  • @epsospremium6088
    @epsospremium6088 5 років тому +12

    Electric vehicles, buses, cars and ships need to come faster.
    We all would *benefit from clean air* in the city !
    The good thing is that solar power got very cheap recently, it just need more time to replace the dirty sources of power.

    • @canaldofred2366
      @canaldofred2366 3 роки тому +1

      Going nuclear is easier, faster, cheaper and greener.

  • @sumitbali9194
    @sumitbali9194 5 років тому +8

    Don't believe the Indian Government is any serious on this issue. The share of cities making to list of top polluted cities speaks for itself

  • @hrishikeshdeore5727
    @hrishikeshdeore5727 5 років тому +10

    If there was no industrial Revolution.

  • @alexbrno
    @alexbrno 5 років тому +5

    It is because each human wants to have and spend so huge amount of energy, water, other resources and "essential" things like cars and multiply heavily in the same time.

    • @airsickspace9272
      @airsickspace9272 2 роки тому +1

      And because companies make it so you kinda have to. In America they made it so places like suburbs are so spread out for the sole reason as making it more expensive to get there

  • @baderralef9122
    @baderralef9122 5 років тому +6

    What we've gained from technology we've lost it in morality yet we think we're too smart .Smh

    • @isn0t42
      @isn0t42 5 років тому

      Oh those wonderful middle ages with their cholera and smallpox outbreaks, and burnings of the redheads and nonconformists.

    • @baderralef9122
      @baderralef9122 5 років тому +2

      @@isn0t42 they polluted the air we breath water we drink and poison the foods we eat .back in days people live longer nowadays dying younger.

    • @isn0t42
      @isn0t42 4 роки тому +1

      @@baderralef9122 because drinking water from rivers was so much cleaner. And no, people died in their 30s back in those good old days. Life expectancy grew rapidly throughout the 20th century, and continues to grow in the 21st.

  • @dokasaku1233
    @dokasaku1233 5 років тому +2

    i gotta tell you that in Ulan bator in summer time the air is one of the cleanest on earth

  • @prosenroy3995
    @prosenroy3995 5 років тому +2

    Air pollution is also seen major concern in Dhaka.

  • @visamap
    @visamap 3 роки тому

    Thank u all

  • @paxundpeace9970
    @paxundpeace9970 5 років тому +1

    it is going better year by year but it is still worse.

  • @dark698701
    @dark698701 2 роки тому

    In Skopje 🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰 and all big cities air has so much pollution

  • @mohdhadapi6333
    @mohdhadapi6333 4 дні тому

    What problem world all people run go another country...

  • @johnrozario8665
    @johnrozario8665 4 роки тому

    There are many causes for air, water, noise pollution. Production
    orientated pollution like industrial pollution, we can't stop, can be reduce. I Think Guardians are realizing firecrackers pollution which are
    increasing in alarming rate. Firecrackers are the part of religious festival in
    Hindustan. This
    are They can control their children & minimize pollution. Children are
    affecting much more than adult, we know all living things are affecting. Everybody
    knows Delhi is severely affected by pollution, where peoples are wearing musk in their daily life. My humble request to
    all family to select minimum number of firecrackers category then purchase one piece from each category
    and take part to reduce pollution and we can make healthy India.

  • @crystalidx
    @crystalidx 4 роки тому

    Meanwhile nasa is trying to send people to Mars...

    • @canaldofred2366
      @canaldofred2366 3 роки тому +1

      So u want all space inovations to stop because there are polluted places? This doesnt even make sense.

  • @paula15popu71
    @paula15popu71 3 роки тому

    viendo el video q subio el profesor de Biología al aulavirtual xd

  • @moba3362
    @moba3362 3 роки тому +1

    No, air cleaning plants do not exist! *sarcasm*