The Silent Killer: Carbon dioxide
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"As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask our selves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us " With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas" or "They went on playing politics until the world collapsed around them""
-U Thant(secretary general of UN from 1962-1971)
This article revolves around the harmful effects of carbon dioxide, which is more than often overlooked, on the environment and the human body, as well as the different exotic species of animals. Though the maximum possible coverage of this topic has not been possible, we have focused the articles on the immediate matters revolving this underestimated dilemma.
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