Get the facts straight
The edited broadcast is available now on the NPR's website
Published by Lifestyles Magazine
The Green Monster - Bjorn Lomborg on the biggest environmental problem in the world. (Hint: It's not climate change.)
Written by Kimberly Greene
From LIFESTYLES MAGAZINE - SUMMER 2014
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Published by The Daily Star
When it comes to cooking indoors over open fires, the harmful health effects can be equal to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. This indoor air pollution plagues nearly nine out of every 10 Bangladeshi households, which use wood and other biofuels to cook inside.
Over time, exposure to smoke from indoor cooking leads to deadly diseases such as lung cancer, stroke, and heart disease. This is why it's the most deadly environmental problem in the world. In Bangladesh, such indoor air pollution is responsible for 10-15 percent of all deaths.
Published by The New York Times
WE are often told that tackling global warming should be the defining task of our age — that we must cut emissions immediately and drastically. But people are not buying the idea that, unless we act, the planet is doomed. Several recent polls have revealed Americans’ growing skepticism. Solving global warming has become their lowest policy priority, according to a new Pew survey. (...)
