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Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Air Pollution in India

Three per cent of all life years lost to all causes globally, are lost due to air pollution in india. Indoor smoke from cooking and outdoor air polution from burning coal, from cars, from burning fuel crops. The best report we've seen on this estimated something like seven million dollar a year of funding for for air equality work in India. And that's just, like, for something that's causing so much of the health promps in the world, that's like a trivial trivial fraction. But i think there's a lot more to be done there.

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