POLLUTION

Babies' brains damaged by pollution, Unicef says

UNICEF informed that at least seventeen million babies are breathing toxic air and putting their life at risk. Babies from South Asia are the most affected because are living in areas with pollution six times higher than safe levels.

UNICEF said that breathing polluted air could damage brain tissue and undermine brain’s development that could affect IQ and memory, reduce test scores as well as other neurological behavioral problems. The effects will last a lifetime.

ONU warned that as more as the world urbanizes without adequate protection and pollution reduction measures, more children will be at risk. They called for broad use of masks and air filtering systems.

In the Indian capital, Delhi, the smog air was covering the entire city and parents accused the authorities of haven’t in mine their children’s health.

In northern China, air pollution will cut life expectancy by about thee years. Meanwhile, scientists in London found that the British smog is linked to lower birth weights, higher infant mortality and disease later in life.

Most of countries and cities with high levels of pollution are underdeveloped countries and haven’t the money to reduce the emitting of contamination. The polluted air will stay in the atmosphere and we and the others animals will breath this air. I agree with UNICEF to increase the use of masks and filtering systems to reduce the high impact in our health.

Babies are not the only affected, all the population is affected and in most of cases, the same population is the responsible from the polluted air we breathe. We can’t do anything to solve it, the problem begins with the government and it’s the only one that can reduce the emitting of contaminants to the atmosphere by using methods that could respect the safe levels of pollution.