Hi everyone. Welcome to my blog on pollution. I would like to start of with an interesting fact.

Inhaling air pollution takes away at least 1-2 years of a typical human life!

Air pollution is introducing harmful pollutants particles into the atmosphere. These harmful pollutants may be in the form of gaseous chemicals or biological materials that causes discomfort or diseases that may harm our organs. It might also harm our sources of food such as crops and plantation thus affecting the production of food.

One major cause of air pollution is burning of fossil fuel. Burning of fossil fuel provide petroleum for transportation and energy to run our appliances. However it emits harmful particles like carbon dioxides  that causes global warming, mercury & Sulphur dioxide that causes acid rain and breathing problems if inhaled.

Burning of fossil fuel

Burning of fossil fuel

However as depressing as this may sound. Air pollution have a solution. We may promote and adopt the use of clean energy. By doing this we reduce the usage of fossil fuel and thus we may reduce the harmful effect of air pollution.

The subsequent blog post I will talk more the effects and solutions of for air pollution.

See you on my next post!

References:

Fossil Fuels: The dirty facts by Melissa Denchak from Natural Resources Defense Council https://www.nrdc.org/stories/fossil-fuels-dirty-facts#sec-whatis

Air pollution facts by Rinkesh
conserve-energy-future.com/various-air-pollution-facts.php#:~:text=Fact%201%3A%20An%20average%20American,as%20breathing%20problems%20and%20death.