Air Pollution

Air pollution is mainly caused by Traffic, burning of fossil fuels (like coal, wood, agricultural residue), industrial plants, factories and construction activities. These activities produce high levels of Carbon Monoxide (CO), Hydrocarbons (HC), Nitrogen Oxides (NO), sulfur dioxide and Dust (particulate matter) Pollution. When these harmful gases, dust and smoke enters into the atmosphere, it makes it difficult for plants, animals and humans to survive as the air becomes dirty. These are all man-made contributions towards air pollution. It’s a problem that humans cause through ignorance or stupidity. Virtually all of vehicles are powered by petroleum, exhausts from engines contain all kinds of pollution, and energize it with sunlight and you get the sometimes brownish, sometimes bluish fog of pollution we call smog (a combination of the words "smoke" and "fog"), although smog can happen in any busy city, it's a particular problem when air gets colder. The trouble is, we can’t tell how pollution is affecting us, or know how it might harm us in months, or even years in the future. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is one of the world's biggest killers: it causes around two million people to die prematurely each year and many of these deaths happen in developing countries like in India but that does not mean developing nations do not face problem, they do! 

If you think by staying at your home is the safest option—you are probably wrong, because, air is constantly moving. So, as a Air pollution isn’t someone else's problem, it is ours and raising awareness and changing behavior can help. On a larger scale, governments (both at state, central and global level) needs to take measures to limit emissions of gases. Drive should be started by governments (without politicizing the issue!) to clean air before it is too late!!