• Health Effects

Air pollution is a significant risk factor for multiple health conditions including respiratory infections, heart disease, and lung cancer, according to the World health Organization. The health effects caused by air pollution may include difficulty in breathing, wheezing, coughing, asthma and aggravation of existing respiratory and cardiac conditions. The human health effects of poor air quality are far reaching, but principally affect the body's respiratory system and the cardiovascular system.

• Environmental Effects

Poisonous air pollutants (toxic chemicals in the air) can form acid rain. It can also form dangerous ground level ozone. These destroy trees, crops, farms, animals and continue to make water bodies harmful to humans and animals that live and depend on water.

• Economical Effects

The effect of air pollution on the economy may be a derived one. In simple language, the economy thrives when people are healthy, and business that depends on cultivated raw materials and natural resources are running at full efficiency.

Air pollution reduces agricultural crop and commercial forest yields by billions of money each year. This in addition to people staying off work for health reasons can costs the economy greatly.

How to control Air pollution?

Solution efforts on pollution are always a big problem. This is why prevention interventions are always a better way of controlling air pollution. These prevention methods can either come from government (laws) or by individual actions.

• Government (or community) level prevention

Governments throughout the world have already taken action against air pollution by introducing green energy. Some governments are investing in wind energy and solar energy, as well as other renewable energy, to minimize burning of fossil fuels, which cause heavy air pollution.

• Individual level prevention

We have to encourage our own families to use the bus, train or bike when commuting. If we all do this, there will be fewer cars on road and less fumes. We can use energy (light, water, boiler, kettle and fire woods) wisely. This is because lots of fossil fuels are burned to generate electricity, and so if we can cut down the use, we will also cut down the amount of pollution we create.

We can't stop breathing, but we can do something about the quality of air that we breathe…