Friday, 20 June 2014

Air Pollution – A Silent Killer

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.

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