I decided to make a small parenthesis and give you some information on pollution, the main cause for global warming.Recent studies show that 40% of global deaths occur annually due to water, air and soil contamination. If we look deeper into it, we would see that 3 million people die due to contaminated air and 2.7 million because of over-polluted water. Other 3.7 billion people are daily exposed at risk of diseases or are already infected with poisoned food.
If we analyze some of the globe's regions we would see that China is the world's top polluter, being responsible for 6.2 million tons of CO2 emissions per year. America comes up in the 2nd position, having 2.56 million tons of CO2 emission only from its power plants (the number is equivalent with 449 million cars). On the other extreme, is Africa, the lowest polluter, being connected only to 3% of the global emissions. Although it is not influencing as much as China or America, the continent still gets heavily impacted by the climate change because of its poverty, lack of medicine and technology.
When you mentioned how many people die of over polluted water it made me think of Clean Water for the World foundation. They provide clean & safe water for people to drink. According to their webiste, every 15 seconds a child dies from drinking unclean water.
ReplyDeleteIm pretty sure that when most of us go to get a glass of water from the sink we dont worry if its safe to drink. We take clean water for granted. Check out the website, leanr more, and help provide a someone in the world with clean water!
http://cleanwaterfortheworld.org/