Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicenter South Asia even as China fast improves, a study showed Tuesday.
Yet the level of funding set aside to confront the challenge is a fraction of the amount earmarked for fightingIts annual Air Quality Life Index report showed that fine particulate air—which comes from vehicle and industrial emissions, wildfires and more—remains the"greatest external threat to public health."
While there is an international financing partnership called the Global Fund that disburses $4 billion annually on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, there is no equivalent for air pollution. Residents of Bangladesh, where average PM2.5 levels were 74 micrograms per cubic meter, would gain 6.8 years of life if this were brought to WHO guidelines of 5 micrograms per cubic meter.
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