The developing world is in the midst of an environmental crisis.
Simply breathing the air is a leading cause of death.
- Jonas Gamso
- The Conversation
One recent study found that pollution is to blame for a fifth of sub-Saharan Africa’s infant deaths.
Another showed that exposure to toxins or other dangerous substances in the air killed over 9 million people in 2015 alone, with 92 percent of those deaths occurring in developing countries – this is more people than were killed by AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined in that same year.
In Latin America, over one-third of deaths from…