On this edition of Your Call, Beth Gardiner discusses her new book, Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution.
Only five percent of the population breathes truly healthful air. Air pollution prematurely kills nine million people a year, including 100,000 Americans. Gardiner traveled the globe’s most polluted cities to find out how we can stop the forces causing air pollution and build a cleaner, healthier future.
Guest:
Beth Gardiner, author of Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
Web Resources:
Bloomberg: U.S. Air Quality Was Improving. Now It’s Getting Worse
The Guardian: What do we know about the top 20 global polluters?
BBC: Air pollution 'triggers hundreds more heart attacks and strokes'
Financial Times: How safe is the air we breathe?