Sickness

Well, you hear numbers all the time. People are dying by the millions everyday. But when you hear something like what i heard this morning, you think, "Wow, how can that be?!" The little nugget that stuck in my ear this morning was that the number of children who die from sickness caused by indoor pollution is about the same as that of children who die of malaria every year. In other words, between malaria and indoor pollution-caused disease our world loses about 3,000,000 children every year. Indoor pollution is caused mostly by coal or wood fires used to cook inside homes.