
We Should Be Paying More Attention to Air Pollution
Sustainability Now
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The Connection Between Air Quality and Climate Change
Air pollution has been found to reduce the company's revenue by up to six percent for every 10 unit increase of air concentration above the healthiest threshold. Even small changes in worker productivity or on the availability of the workers might have a large impact on the bottom line of the company. The biggest concern of people in highly polluted areas is generally not climate change it's the poor air they breathe every day. When we tackle air pollution we directly tackle climate change I'd also like to emphasize that the reason why air pollution was tackled first by most environmental regulators and why it shouldn't be ignored even as our environmental problems continue to compound.
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