“Breathing clean air is every child’s human right,” says grassroots campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, sharing the heartbreaking story of her seven-year-old daughter, Ella Roberta, whose asthma was triggered to a fatal point by air pollution. Now, Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is on a mission to raise awareness about the harmful effects of unsafe air on our health and the planet. In this moving talk, she details why governments have an urgent responsibility to take action on air pollution — and ensure that all children have a chance to live full and healthy lives.
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No doubt at this time all over world facing this issue at High level..but still we are going to more industrial estate irrespective of all these horrible problem
I suggest to all government to take initiative towards Clean air should be declared fundamental right….
Thanks for your videos i love your content.😀
I want a world where everyone has the right to clean air, so, so, SO much.
Unfortunately, I will never experience that. As there will always be people who disagrees and will do everything in their power to force a false compromise, of allowing way more pollution to exist/happen, than we ever sensibly should.
People are complaining about gas prices..
Hopefully it will inspire people to shift their minds
and a movement towards ELECTRIC VEHICLES…
Better for the environment ANYWAY.
PS
Biden dosen't own big oil corporations
Big Oil corporations
are OPPORTUNISTS ‼️
They made HUGE PROFITS
EVERY CHANCE
THEY TAKE ‼️
kicking us down when we are already struggling and vulnerable ….
‼️GREED
DRIVEN OLD WORLD AGENDAS
ARE KILLING US ☠
😢 OUR EARTH MOTHER.
GREED has NO CONSCIENCE.‼️
GREED is characteristically..
OF the DARK FORCE.
This is f'ed up. No-one, let alone a child, should suffer this
Anyone who has walked around London or taken the tube knows this. Just do it for a few hours, then use a baby wipe to clean your nostrils. It will be filled with soot and carbon.
N95s+ are a decent way of blocking a lot of pollutive particles.
Don't care
I was eleven months old and my brother was born in the London smog of 1952 when busses were being guided by men walking in front of them with lamps. I suppose we were lucky back then as it only lasted until the weather changed and blew the smogs away.
You can't blow traffic away.
Our priority should be to be stop nuke wars and then Chemical trails
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Air Pollution Is a Hoax..
Give people the power to say no to harmful corporations! No more evictions from primary residences!!
Remember how the planet was healing when we were in lock down. Let the people and the planet rest. No more forced labor. No more evictions from primary residences!
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still no mention of the aerosol trails behind airplanes that spread and fill the sky every day
I have a different point of view.
As a fact you know yourself or your children's respiratory system is fragile, then you might teach him/her to wear a medical mask to protect their lungs.
Biologically and ironically saying, those who can't adapt to air pollution might be a part of natural selection.
In my point of view, if you want to live inside a convenient urban society, you MUST bear with the constant pollution produced by those “convenient” infrastructure. Else, go back to countryside and have nature surrounding you, but requires a 1 hour drive to commute to work or school.
And you might ask, “what about electric vehicles?”
Friend, as you might know the electricity is mostly produced by fossil fuel such as coal and gasoline. The power plant and the pollution is just not there around you. Transferred to NIMBY places you'll never visit.The pollution is always there. It's just a matter of where, and it's mostly about sacrifice.
Very sad. Sorry for this lady's loss.
Indian air quality is …….
Meanwhile, some are coal-rolling and doing burnouts for fun, right in front of someone else's home.
سب سے زیادہ مٹی، گرد ہمیں پاکستان کی سڑکوں پر ملتی ہے. اور اوپر سے لوگ اچھی گاڑیوں میں بیٹھے کوڑا کرکٹ باہر سڑکوں پر پھینکتے.
I agree with her,nowadays air pollution is affecting our life,such as increasing risk of chronic disease,just like what she talked.
Awfully propaganda…👎
Save Our Planet
Air, water, food and shelter. In that order, are the necessities for survival for humans (and other animals). How many of us are DENIED the right to those, every day because of our incompetent, malevolent governments? BILLIONS
People, don't lose your loved ones before you get mad and actually do something for yourselves, and your children. Start today, not next year, or month on the first Monday, start TODAY!
Dislikes disabled, classic. Can't vote on propaganda…
Very strong! ❤
best
Pollution? They are spraying the entire world with poisons. On purpose!
world really need a clean air! cause we need it for our life! and then air pollution is really big problem rn, we need to face it!
Very very nice ❤
Thanks for this strong vidéo. I am french and I really liked the good quality of translation. Thanks you for the subtiles for non-english speakers ..