Cutting carbon emissions sooner could save 153 million lives

As many as 153 million premature deaths linked to air pollution could be avoided worldwide this century if governments speed up their timetable for reducing fossil fuel emissions, a new study finds. If nations agree to reduce carbon emissions and limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C in the near future rather than postponing the biggest emissions cuts until later, as some governments have proposed, Premature deaths would drop in cities on every inhabited continent, with the greatest gains in saved lives occurring in Asia and Africa. "Since air pollution is something we understand very well and have extensive historical data on, we can say with relatively high certainty how many people will die in a given city under each scenario.Now if this the current situation in Nairobi guess what? In 30 years to come we shall be walking with masks. https://www.sciencedaily.com