This article explains that after high blood pressure, indoor air pollution, smoking, and poor nutrition, outdoor air pollution is number five on the list of India's largest life threats. This health hazard has killed over 620,000 Indian people! These deaths are not just caused by dirty air alone. The health problems case by the particles in the air is what is so detrimental to health. But outdoor pollution isn't just a threat to India, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study says that outdoor air pollution has killed over 3 million people world-wide.
The pollution is accredited to factors such as vehicle exhaust, emissions from factories, and burning of biomass. The country of India is currently weighing its options on ways to prevent air pollution from increasing. This includes ideas such as low-sulfur diesel, tax on diesel-powered cars, and higher parking fees but according to the article, "enforcement is notoriously weak in India."
As it states in the article, air pollution is a threat to the lives of people all around the world. Pollution is not cause by natural forces, it is created by man-made technologies (cars, factories, etc.). It is safe to assume that the increase of deaths by pollution must be related to the increase in the use of technologies. This relates to how our class has been discussing globalization. With our world growing in technology, and a need for easier, if not instant gratification, the more we rely and depend on it. This becomes a problem because if people stop depending on the factories that cause the pollution, then the world will experience better health, but how much more would our fast pace society be thrown off without depending on these factories?
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