Breathe
TED Radio Hour
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The Impact of Pollution on Quality of Life in Polluted Cities
There's tons of research that finds that actually in heavily polluted neighborhoods that parents are going to end up missing more work and kids are going to ending up missing more school. So it really is not only a matter of health but also a matter of just everyday quality of life. You know, 7 million people annually dying around the world up to 100,000 deaths every year in the United States. When the air gets cleaner, when we do the things to reduce pollution and clean it up, the health benefits materialize almost immediately.
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