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AIRBORNE HAZARD: HOW AIR POLLUTION HARMS OUR KIDS CLIMATECOUNCIL.ORG.AU

29 Oct 2024

Coal, oil and gas are polluting our climate, and our air The vast majority of human-caused air Using coal, oil or gas to power our cars, pollution - including 85% of particulate power stations, mining operations and pollution and almost all sulphur dioxide factories is also the main source of and nitrogen oxide emissions - is from greenhouse gas emissions - or climate the burning of fossil fuels,. [...] Further, nose and throat, worsening of asthma and the economic cost of all air pollution on the chronic bronchitis and increases in hospital health and wellbeing of Australians based on admissions (NSW Government 2020). [...] 17 AIRBORNE HAZARD: HOW AIR POLLUTION HARMS OUR KIDS THE HEALTH IMPACTS OF AIR POLLUTION ON KIDS Exposure during gestation Exposure during childhood Exposure to air pollution can negatively Children exposed to increased air pollution impact the healthy development of children, face an increased risk of both short- and long- from pre-birth through to early, middle and term health issues. [...] Due to these we can clean up the air and better protect factors, children attending the 27% of schools our children’s health and by implementing and 29% of childcare centres within 100m of strategies to support cleaner forms of a busy road in the City of Maribyrnong are transport. [...] With the health of so many children being harmed by the air they breathe, we can We can cut climate and air pollution further and should be doing so much more to cut by providing more people who live in our harmful air and climate pollution from the cities with more frequent, sustainable and burning of coal, oil and gas.
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