The United States, Canada is higher than the height of air pollution all over the world in 2023: Report

A new report found that the United States and Canada had the largest increase in air pollution on the planet in 2023 – which is led by the worst fire season in the northern neighbor.

Canada alone has seen the highest levels of micro particle pollution (PM 2.5) in at least 26 years, with more than half of the population exposed to pollutants that exceeded national standards, according to the report.

The data, which was issued as an annual update of the Chicago Air Life Index, showed that if these levels continue, people’s lives can be shortened for more than two years, compared to the air quality conditions that meet the guidelines of the World Health Organization.

“When fossil fuels are burned, it immediately causes physical air pollution,” Michael Greenston, professor of economics at the Institute of Energy Policy at the University of Chicago and its co -founder of the index said in a statement.

He added: “There are more forest fires because fossil fuel also leads to high temperatures, and the result is a second wave of air pollution.”

As for the United States, Greenstone and his colleagues decided that the fires contributed to the quantities of air pollution that the country had not seen for more than a decade. Compared to only the previous year, the levels of bodily pollution increased in the country by an average of 20 percent, depending on the data.

The report showed that the pollution resulting from Canadian fire spread throughout the Weslevin, Illinois, Al -Hindi and Ouhayu, and until it arrived in the state of Pennsylvania, Akllahoma and Mississippi. The authors found that the provinces in these states replaced many in California as the top 10 hot points for national pollution for the first time for the first time in five years.

“We are now stuck to living with air pollution concentrations that are the dangerous ghost of burning fossil fuel since the industrial revolution,” Grenston said.

Throughout the world, the index decided that air pollution showed a slight increase in 2023. If the planet was permanently reduced by particles pollution to meet global health guidelines, the average person can rely on an additional 1.9 years in the average life expectancy, according to the report.

“Even countries that have spent decades for decades in cleaning air cannot escape these ghosts, the shortest life and the disease they offer,” Grenston added.

By describing particle pollution as “the greatest external risk in the world on human health”, the authors stressed that its effects on the average life expectancy can be compared to smoking smoking, more than four times alcohol consumption, five times of transport injuries and six times the effects of HIV/AIDS.

But the researchers also said that it is not wasting all hope, and that people can benefit from awareness of the air quality they breathe through the increasingly available data sources. However, approximately 70 percent of the world population lives in areas that lack sufficient access to this information, the authors said.

Tanushree Ganguly, Director of the Air Life Index, recognized in the statement of air pollution as “a major reason for people to live in a shorter life all over the world.” As such, he stressed the importance of embracing tools that allow improving policies and providing more information about pollutants breathing by people.

“Throughout history, the countries have grown, developed and improved air quality,” said Gangoli. “Targeting fossil fuels in its sources will improve local air, as well as help in facing climate change.”