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Paul Finch, Co-Founder of Growth Studio discusses why there aren’t more clean air startups and what needs to be done to rectify it
The UK government attributes between 28,000 and 35,000 premature deaths every year to air pollution, with (conservative) estimates putting the number of deaths globally at over seven million.
Long-term exposure to poor air pollution can also lead to “reduced life expectancy [from] cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, and lung cancer”. As Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer says, air pollution is “everybody’s problem and a problem at all times”.
In truth, air pollution is a problem in every city, in every country, every day.
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