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Fig. 5.4 Newly infected scenario in India if there would be lockdown and social distancing
instigates distasteful effects, or and hampers the natural resources of the environment.
It has a long as well as short-term ravaging effect to the environment and hampers as
well as destroys human amenities, health, etc. Among them some are biodegradable
that means they get decomposed into organic matters by bacteria, fungus, etc., and
some are non-biodegradable (like plastic) which means they are incapable or takes
a huge amount of time for decomposition and even cannot decompose at all in
some cases. These non-biodegradable wastes have more adverse effect. In the highly
populated and fast developing countries in the world like India, the upswings and
fluctuations in the economy led to environmental threats and the urbanisation as well
as industrialisation paved the way to increase air pollution leading to social instability.
From Fig. 5.5, a question can be raised that is the global growth-promoting the growth
of air pollution?[20–23]
As per reports and the facts published worldwide, more than 2 million premature
deaths are the adverse effect of air pollution only and more than 4 million deaths
are consequence to the household pollutions only. From the different results, it is
evident that 10% of total death in the world is only due to air pollution and so it is
becoming a major threat to mankind and India is among the top five countries having
the highest pollution. The other countries of southeast like Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Nepal are highly polluted. In India, some of the polluted cities according to different
reports are New-Delhi, Kanpur, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gaya (the report is considered
mainly based on concentration on the pollutants. Also South as well as Southeast
Asia, are facing a worse conditions. In Fig. 5.2, deaths per day from air pollution of
two most densely populated countries in the world, i.e. India and China are taken
into account. It is evident that the death rate is increasing. Air pollution can be said as
the damaging effect caused to the air due to release of several toxic pollutants which
is life-threatening and detrimental to mankind which may cause several chronic
diseases and other problems like lung cancer, asthma, anoxaemia, corneal opacity,
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Fig. 5.4 Newly infected scenario in India if there would be lockdown and social distancing
instigates distasteful effects, or and hampers the natural resources of the environment.
It has a long as well as short-term ravaging effect to the environment and hampers as
well as destroys human amenities, health, etc. Among them some are biodegradable
that means they get decomposed into organic matters by bacteria, fungus, etc., and
some are non-biodegradable (like plastic) which means they are incapable or takes
a huge amount of time for decomposition and even cannot decompose at all in
some cases. These non-biodegradable wastes have more adverse effect. In the highly
populated and fast developing countries in the world like India, the upswings and
fluctuations in the economy led to environmental threats and the urbanisation as well
as industrialisation paved the way to increase air pollution leading to social instability.
From Fig. 5.5, a question can be raised that is the global growth-promoting the growth
of air pollution?[20–23]
As per reports and the facts published worldwide, more than 2 million premature
deaths are the adverse effect of air pollution only and more than 4 million deaths
are consequence to the household pollutions only. From the different results, it is
evident that 10% of total death in the world is only due to air pollution and so it is
becoming a major threat to mankind and India is among the top five countries having
the highest pollution. The other countries of southeast like Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Nepal are highly polluted. In India, some of the polluted cities according to different
reports are New-Delhi, Kanpur, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gaya (the report is considered
mainly based on concentration on the pollutants. Also South as well as Southeast
Asia, are facing a worse conditions. In Fig. 5.2, deaths per day from air pollution of
two most densely populated countries in the world, i.e. India and China are taken
into account. It is evident that the death rate is increasing. Air pollution can be said as
the damaging effect caused to the air due to release of several toxic pollutants which
is life-threatening and detrimental to mankind which may cause several chronic
diseases and other problems like lung cancer, asthma, anoxaemia, corneal opacity,