Air Pollution Is Deadly, But Especially for Children. Here’s Why.

When I was a little boy I remember my father telling me, “It’s always a tragedy when someone you know dies.  But when a child of someone you know dies, there are no words that can possibly express your sorrow.”

Multiply that by 1.7 million, and you have the amount of suffering associated with the annual death of children–from air pollution alone.  Here’s a piece from the World Health Organization explaining exactly how this happens.