Can you breathe? Inhale deeply; do you feel the oxygen filling your lungs with every breath? As you sit there, a small child sits in another room breathing in the same oxygen that expands and contracts from their tiny lungs, but not long ago those tiny lungs were at an even more miniscule scale of size and the small child was in the arms of a loving mother, wife to a dear husband. Their love is blatant, yet no amount of care and happiness can shield them from the air around them, for all need this air to live and survive, but what if the air is coated in toxins? So pure, so innocent, and yet so vulnerable a child is to their environment and the smallest of things may create the largest of damage to their vulnerable bodies. Chai Jing is the mother of a small baby girl and has now become ever growingly aware of the pollution within China, pollution that created a tumor upon her baby girl and whisked her away before Chai Jing could hold her child for the first time of her life. Chai Jing’s daughter may have survived, but the number of premature death and death at birth
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When discussing with medical physicians, she discovered that the particles correspond to a higher chance of heart failure and cancer due to the reduced cardiac blood
When discussing with medical physicians, she discovered that the particles correspond to a higher chance of heart failure and cancer due to the reduced cardiac blood