EXECUTIVE PERSPECTIVE: Air Pollution – A Silent Killer - Sustainability
The world is under attack from a silent killer with impacts four times that of HIV and AIDS, and most people don’t even seem to know it.
In March this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report estimating that air pollution caused the premature deaths of seven million people in 2012, equivalent to one in eight of all deaths that year and double the previous estimate.
Ciarán Quinn, Research Librarian, Maynooth University. ciaran.quinn@mu.ie
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