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Air Pollution: Sources and
Solutions
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) :
Sources
Carbon Dioxide: Some
Solutions
Carbon Monoxide (CO):
Sources
Carbon Monoxide: Solutions
Lead Sources
Lead: Solutions

Lithium Ion
batteries
Sulfur Oxides: Sources
Sulfur Oxides: Solutions
VOC’s: Sources
VOC’s: Solutions
Nitrogen Oxides: Sources
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Nitrogen Oxides: Solutions
Use Electric
Trains
Use to Walk
Ozone: Sources
Ozone: Solutions
Alternative Transportation
Causes of Air Pollution
Everyyear, 1.96millionpeoplediefromARIsas

aresultof indoorairpollution.

Source: ARIAtlas.org, WorldLungFoundation2010

Outdoorairpollutioncauses121,000ARI deaths

annually.

Source: ARIAtlas.org, WorldLungFoundation2010

Half of theworld’spopulationcookswithsolid

fuels .

Solidfuelsincludewood, dung, agricultural wasteandotherbiomassfuels, aswell ascharcoal.

Source: ARIAtlas.org, WorldLungFoundation2010

 Air Pollution
China’s is the world’s fastest growing economies
—with no environmental regulation

India has some 500,000 annual deaths from

indoor air pollution

Bangladesh has about 100,000 annual deaths

from indoor air pollution
 Around 30-40% of cases of
asthma and 20-30% of all
respiratory diseases may be
linked to air pollution
- increased acute respiratory
diseases
- lowered lung function in
children
- increased sickness rates;
- increases in mortality
 HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR
POLLUTION

Normal human lungs (left) and the lungs of a

person who died of emphysema (right).
Figure 19-15
People should be educated to control the air
pollution in environment and create public
awareness about the ill-effect of air pollution.
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