According to record released by World Health Organization, 7
million died due to air pollution in 2012 and more than a third of the death occurred
in Asian developing nations. Air pollution is the world’s biggest and only environmental
risk and dirty air account for 1out of every 8 deaths in the world. What is new
is that effects of air pollution in strokes and coronary can now be evaluated. Reports
show that those living in northeast China, Japan and south India are at a
higher risk. Poor women expose to cooking fire are at an even higher risk of those
noncommunicable diseases. Urbanization sprawl in the developing nations in Asia,
especially china are major contribution to the problem. It is necessary for
china to plan its cities rationally to have better urban infrastructures.
Developing countries and in top of them China, are major
contributor of world pollution. As farmers are moved into the city life, china
is experiencing over population in urban areas; a problem common in other areas
of the world as well. As those farmers
lands are sold, they become producers of urban sprawls instead. The problem is
that urban areas are spreading too far and too fast, using too many resources
and producing too much waste. One way to help this problem is by making cities
denser so that per capita use of resources and thus less pollution. Air pollution
is also a threat to those in poor areas of the world who help little access to
resources but at the same time more vulnerable to health problems. Also making
cities denser will save space for agriculture as well as decrease air pollution
cleanup spending.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/world/pollution-killed-7-million-people-worldwide-in-2012-report-finds.html
