HOW LEADED FUEL HAS CONTRIBUTED TO HAZARDOUS HEALTH IN AFRICA

The end of the world hazardous fuel signifies a healthy African continent

HOW LEADED FUEL HAS CONTRIBUTED TO HAZARDOUS HEALTH IN AFRICA
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There's one particularly insidious fossil fuel that for decades was a major cause of public health problems in developing countries, especially in Africa which the United Nations has placed a global embargo on and has now finally phased out of the African continent and the world in general.

The global consumption of leaded gasoline in cars and trucks, emissions from which are linked to cancer, heart disease, stroke, decreasing cognitive function, and other health roblems, as well as air and water pollution.

Experts estimated that the phaseout will prevent more than 1.2 million premature deaths annually. Which will also make the world about 5% cleaner and continually contributed to environmental cleaningness by a substantial percentage.

Up to the 1970s, almost all gasoline contained lead, which was added to crude oil in the refining process with the belief that it made car engines perform more powerfully.

But as evidence accumulated linking lead to health problems (and even to crime waves), governments began to turn against it. Japan outlawed leaded gas in 1980; most European countries and the US followed suit in the 1990s, and China and India phased it out by 2000.

Algeria being the last country to put an end to its productions


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