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Choked : Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution by Beth Gardiner is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Choked : Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution about?
__Nothing is as elemental, as essential to human life, as the air we breathe. Yet around the world, in rich countries and poor ones, it is quietly poisoning us.__ Air pollution prematurely kills seven million people every year, including more than one hundred thousand Americans. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart attacks, many kinds of cancer, dementia, and premature birth, among other ailments. In __Choked__, Beth Gardiner travels the world to tell the story of this modern-day plague, taking readers from the halls of power in Washington and the diesel-fogged London streets she walks with her daughter to Poland’s coal heartland and India’s gasping capital. In a gripping narrative that’s alive with powerful voices and personalities, she exposes the political decisions and economic forces that have kept so many of us breathing dirty air. This is a moving, up-close look at the human toll, where we meet the scientists who have transformed our understanding of pollution’s effects on the body and the ordinary people fighting for a cleaner future. In the United States, air is far cleaner than it once was. But progress has failed to keep up with the science, which tells us that even t
Who reads Choked : Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Beth Gardiner
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press; The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226630793
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Technology, Science, Political Science
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (53 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14