Teen activist Thunberg joins Earth Day climate rallying calls
But on the 50th annual Earth Day, an event intended to show support for protecting the environment, residents in some of China’s most pollution-prone cities said they were worried the blue skies would not last.
With millions staying at home, concentrations of small lung-damaging floating particles fell by nearly 15% in more than 300 Chinese cities in the first three month of the year. Another paper estimated the recent decline in smog could have reduced the number of premature pollution-related deaths in China and India by 7,400, and the number of paediatric asthma cases by 6,600 in the first two weeks of the lockdown alone.
“I can’t imagine that people with asthma in China, or people whose children have asthma, aren’t seeing a dramatic improvement.”
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