Sustainability Fact of the Week – 03/13/19

Decreasing our reliance on fossil fuels is essential for mitigating the effects of climate change, but doing so is also paramount to human health. Air pollution is twice as deadly as previously thought, causing 8.8 million deaths in 2015. That makes air pollution more deadly than smoking, which killed 7 million people that same year. You can read more about this research in an article by the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/12/air-pollution-deaths-are-double-previous-estimates-finds-research?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=934c9a01b5-briefing-dy-20190312&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-934c9a01b5-43775197