LONDON UK POLLUTION LEVEL 10 HIGHEST EVER 3.4.2014

LONDON UK POLLUTION LEVEL 10 HIGHEST EVER 3.4.2014... Today we have experience highly polluted air in our city of London UK. We were warned by the met office. The air stinks and one can really smell the choking poison air. This is the beginning of the end.... Plant more trees and leave the rain forests alone. Stop burning fossil fuel... And everything is not about growth....Growth ...Growth.....

1. Pollution is one of the biggest global killers, affecting over 100 million people. That's comparable to global diseases like malaria and HIV.

2. According to a 2012 study from Unicef, 2,200 children die every day as a result of dirty drinking water.

3. 14 billion pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year. Most of it is plastic.

4. Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are killed by pollution every year.

5. People who live in places with high levels of air pollutants have a 20% higher risk of death from lung cancer than people who live in less-polluted areas.

6. The Mississippi River carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico each year, creating a "dead zone" in the Gulf each summer about the size of New Jersey.

7. Approximately 40% of the lakes in America are too polluted for fishing, aquatic life, or swimming.

8. Americans make up an estimated 5% of the world's population. However, the U.S. produces an estimated 30% of the world's waste and uses 25% of the world's resources.

9. Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into U.S. water.

10. While children make up 10% of the world's population, over 40% of the global burden of disease falls on them. More than 3 million children under age five die annually from environmental factors.

11. Recycling and composting prevented 85 million tons of material away from being disposed of in 2010, up from 18 million tons in 1980.

Sources

Blacksmith Institute

EPA

Random History

[desertplantsofavalon]

It's so worrying to think what all this pollution is doing to us, we have had some sand on our car and windows and my greenhouse was covered, and all day yesterday it was very smoggy and humid but we have had it nowhere near as bad as the UK especially London, I wonder if a lot of it is coming from all the plane chemtrail pollution etc, we will keep eating all our fruit and veggies and smoothies and high raw foods in our diet etc, I truly believe that a high raw food diet can help as much as possible to protect people from these chemicals in the air we are having to breath in, the more trees they are cutting down for more building is making pollution worse. Thanks for sharing Tony and have a FANTASTIC weekend ahead :-)

[JeanHolySmithereens]

that is very concerning. a couple of weeks ago, Paris was on the news also for reaching the highest toxicity levels in the air. you guys take care!

[TONYLOUIS]

We are all going to die if Humans don't change their course of destructive behaviour towards the

[TONYLOUIS]

1st.... Plant 3  trees on this planet now for every human being on earth.  Come on MAN!!!! Use your brain before it's too late... STOP  PUMPING  OUT  MORE  POISONOUS  CARBON  INTO  OUR  ATMOSPHERE