- Air pollution kills more people than AIDS and malaria together.
- Breathing polluted air shortens your life by 1-2 years.
- One person breathes in approximately 7.5 liters of air per minute, meaning approximately 12.870 liters per day.
- Pollutants released in the air are more harmful that those in the soil or water.
- People living in high traffic areas face a greater risk of cancer, cardiac problems, asthma, bronchitis, because these areas are much more polluted.
- Electric vehicles pollute by lifting the dust, but they do not produce any exhaust emissions.
- Even dolphins are affected by air pollution caused by smog. They get the Black Lung disease.
- The best ways to reduce the impact we have on air are walking and bike riding.
- Pollution in closed environments, such as homes, is 2 to 5 times worse than outdoor air pollution.
- The high level of polluted air in Beijing created the conditions for the emergence of a new disease, the Beijing cough.
- An aluminum box, filled with clean air, costs 60 eurocents and it is sold on the streets of pollution-suffocated Beijing.