Choked : life and breath in the age of air pollution / Beth Gardiner.
Publisher's description: 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 trav...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Inhale : the meaning of a breath
- The measure of a lung : charting pollution's power
- Ground zero : Delhi's health emergency
- 9,416 : living London's diesel disaster
- Air you can chew : Poland and the price of coal
- Cows, almonds, asthma : crisis in the San Joaquin Valley
- Home fires burning : a paradigm shifts
- To change a nation : the story of America's Clean Air Act
- Reluctant innovators : air and the automakers
- Inch by inch : L.A.'s long road
- Live from the "airpocalypse" : China's next revolution
- "To whom belongs the city?" : Berlin looks beyond cars
- Exhale : what comes next.