Air Pollution Can Affect Your Health And Mind As Severely As The Death Of Your Partner
And so reducing your life satisfaction.
Exposure to air pollution can be as detrimental to one¡¯s physical and mental health as the loss of a job or the death of a partner.
Reuters
A new research has found a ¡°significant and negative association¡± between the levels of pollution and how you feel about life ¨C that is, life satisfaction. It found that the effects were ¡°substantive and comparable to that of many big hitting life events¡±.
Reuters
The research is called Can Clean Air Make You Happy? And it found that constant exposure to nitrogen dioxide affects how people feel about life. Researchers Sarah J Knight and Peter Howley found that addressing air pollution can positively change people¡¯s lives since they are constantly exposed to it as opposed to life-altering events such as a job loss.
Reuters
A few Indian cities such as Delhi, Mumbai and Patna are among some of the most polluted cities in the world. In 2015, exposure to air pollution caused around 1.1 million premature deaths in India.
