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The Tragedy of Air Pollution — and an Urgent Demand for Clean Air | Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah |TED

“Breathing clean air is every child’s human right,” says grassroots campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, sharing the heartbreaking story of her seven-year-old daughter, Ella Roberta, whose asthma was triggered to a fatal point by air pollution. Now, Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is on a mission to raise awareness about the harmful effects of unsafe air on our health and the…

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“Breathing clean air is every child’s human right,” says grassroots campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, sharing the heartbreaking story of her seven-year-old daughter, Ella Roberta, whose asthma was triggered to a fatal point by air pollution. Now, Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is on a mission to raise awareness about the harmful effects of unsafe air on our health and the planet. In this moving talk, she details why governments have an urgent responsibility to take action on air pollution — and ensure that all children have a chance to live full and healthy lives.

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44 Comments

  1. English IELTS

    March 16, 2022 at 7:12 pm

    😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

  2. amdroid83

    March 16, 2022 at 7:14 pm

    Thank you, it must have been hard. May your wonderful, beautiful child rest in peace. I will try to improve my own habits in her name and for others being affected.

  3. 1goldinga

    March 16, 2022 at 7:18 pm

    Why would they bother cleaning the air when they can just tax you for carbon…smarten up you genius. There’s no way you don’t see that.

  4. Corrupted Spider

    March 16, 2022 at 7:24 pm

    That’s reality of fossil fuels,that’s a problem, not in future, but in your current life, health, and wellness.

  5. x_Dude ヅ

    March 16, 2022 at 7:35 pm

    Hope the sharing of your story makes people more aware.
    London (not only) is bad with traffic and diesel bus engine exhaust.

  6. Dr. Ricco Lindner

    March 16, 2022 at 7:50 pm

    Was there no way to move somewhere else?? It is long know that traffic Airlines pollution is bad for asthmatic persons. So sad to have lost such a young talented girl

    • Tom Nook

      March 16, 2022 at 10:18 pm

      probably, but it wouldn’t have been in London

  7. Ajit singh shakya

    March 16, 2022 at 8:01 pm

    No doubt at this time all over world facing this issue at High level..but still we are going to more industrial estate irrespective of all these horrible problem
    I suggest to all government to take initiative towards Clean air should be declared fundamental right….

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    March 16, 2022 at 8:02 pm

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  9. Pal

    March 16, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    Climate change is a lie they want to charge you $ to breath it is all about total control over humans

  10. EonWhite

    March 16, 2022 at 8:35 pm

    I want a world where everyone has the right to clean air, so, so, SO much.
    Unfortunately, I will never experience that. As there will always be people who disagrees and will do everything in their power to force a false compromise, of allowing way more pollution to exist/happen, than we ever sensibly should.

  11. D L Malley

    March 16, 2022 at 9:44 pm

    People are complaining about gas prices..
    Hopefully it will inspire people to shift their minds
    and a movement towards ELECTRIC VEHICLES…
    Better for the environment ANYWAY.
    PS
    Biden dosen’t own big oil corporations

    Big Oil corporations
    are OPPORTUNISTS ‼️
    They made HUGE PROFITS
    EVERY CHANCE
    THEY TAKE ‼️
    kicking us down when we are already struggling and vulnerable ….
    ‼️GREED
    DRIVEN OLD WORLD AGENDAS
    ARE KILLING US ☠
    😢 OUR EARTH MOTHER.
    GREED has NO CONSCIENCE.‼️

    GREED is characteristically..
    OF the DARK FORCE.

  12. Tom Nook

    March 16, 2022 at 10:13 pm

    This is f’ed up. No-one, let alone a child, should suffer this

  13. Tom Nook

    March 16, 2022 at 10:19 pm

    Anyone who has walked around London or taken the tube knows this. Just do it for a few hours, then use a baby wipe to clean your nostrils. It will be filled with soot and carbon.

    N95s+ are a decent way of blocking a lot of pollutive particles.

  14. Jb3

    March 16, 2022 at 10:27 pm

    Don’t care

  15. Toni

    March 16, 2022 at 10:34 pm

    I was eleven months old and my brother was born in the London smog of 1952 when busses were being guided by men walking in front of them with lamps. I suppose we were lucky back then as it only lasted until the weather changed and blew the smogs away.
    You can’t blow traffic away.

  16. Mary Mullane

    March 16, 2022 at 11:31 pm

    Our priority should be to be stop nuke wars and then Chemical trails

  17. Alex

    March 16, 2022 at 11:59 pm

    N

  18. Michael G Roux

    March 16, 2022 at 11:59 pm

    Air Pollution Is a Hoax..

  19. Gaasuba Meskhenet

    March 16, 2022 at 11:59 pm

    Give people the power to say no to harmful corporations! No more evictions from primary residences!!

  20. Kiers

    March 17, 2022 at 12:25 am

    Amazing name! I once had a classmate Adabuzo Onyeyenka (not sure if that’s the correct spelling), in 8th grade. I never forgot her.

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    March 17, 2022 at 1:23 am

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  23. Rumford Chimpenstein

    March 17, 2022 at 2:17 am

    still no mention of the aerosol trails behind airplanes that spread and fill the sky every day

  24. 鹹香魚

    March 17, 2022 at 4:18 am

    I have a different point of view.

    As a fact you know yourself or your children’s respiratory system is fragile, then you might teach him/her to wear a medical mask to protect their lungs.
    Biologically and ironically saying, those who can’t adapt to air pollution might be a part of natural selection.

    In my point of view, if you want to live inside a convenient urban society, you MUST bear with the constant pollution produced by those “convenient” infrastructure. Else, go back to countryside and have nature surrounding you, but requires a 1 hour drive to commute to work or school.

    And you might ask, “what about electric vehicles?”
    Friend, as you might know the electricity is mostly produced by fossil fuel such as coal and gasoline. The power plant and the pollution is just not there around you. Transferred to NIMBY places you’ll never visit.The pollution is always there. It’s just a matter of where, and it’s mostly about sacrifice.

    • Ramon Quiroz

      March 17, 2022 at 6:00 am

      Breathing air pollution is not natural. The industrial revolution came with unfortunate side effects. And to that whole natural selection spiel… It’s akin to saying that if you have dirty water you should just accept it and “adapt” to it. We should all knowingly drink this impure water and risk getting a disease. And then there’s people like you saying “oh that person wasn’t strong enough or cutout for this world” knowing well that we are partaking in something that is or could be biologically harmful. Instead of just accepting and letting natural selection/evolution take its course as you say, why not do something about it and purify this dirty water. But now in our case, make this polluted air clean again.

    • Stil Sp

      March 17, 2022 at 6:02 am

      🤢🤢🤢

  25. Daniel Rosehill

    March 17, 2022 at 7:16 am

    Very sad. Sorry for this lady’s loss.

  26. Pranav Koduri

    March 17, 2022 at 7:42 am

    Indian air quality is …….

    • EonWhite

      March 18, 2022 at 2:07 am

      I feel so sorry for Indians. Their air is some of the worst from what I hear.

    • 鹹香魚

      March 18, 2022 at 11:10 am

      Because some of the unwanted heavy polluting industries have moved from developed countries to developing countries just because of the stricter environmental guidelines nowadays.

      In my opinion, we should care more about developing countries than those developed countries.

  27. youxkio

    March 17, 2022 at 8:09 am

    Meanwhile, some are coal-rolling and doing burnouts for fun, right in front of someone else’s home.

    • EonWhite

      March 18, 2022 at 2:05 am

      Or even in some people’s faces literally. I’ve seen videos of cyclists getting coal-rolled like that. It’s truly abhorrent behaviour.

  28. 🇬█ 𝔎𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑚 𝔎alisari│

    March 17, 2022 at 9:54 am

    ‘TED’ | ‘تيد’

    Ladies and gentlemen/حضرات السيدات والسادة !!!.


    أمامنا خيارين إما تفكيك أو تغيره لمستقبل أفضل🌍 وأكثر استدامة وأمنا

    هذه لحظة محورية من أجل الكوكب🌍،

    علينا أن نجد سبيل لنعيد مد جسور الثقة بيننا ورعاية بعضنا بعضاً من أجل الإنسانية💚،
    وسعياً لتوحيد القوى لفتق أفق من الإحتمالات التي لا تحصى🌍،

    معا يمكننا بناءً مستقبل أفضل🌍.

    بواسطة 🇺🇳🇺🇳
    United Nations | الأمـــــمُ المتّـحــــدَة

    Thank you/شكراً لك.
    And may God’s peace be upon you/والسلام عليكم.

    Thank you/Shukran.

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  29. 🇬█ 𝔎𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑚 𝔎alisari│

    March 17, 2022 at 9:55 am

    Ladies and gentlemen/حضرات السيدات والسادة !!!.


    أمامنا خيارين إما تفكيك أو تغيره لمستقبل أفضل🌍 وأكثر استدامة وأمنا

    هذه لحظة محورية من أجل الكوكب🌍،

    علينا أن نجد سبيل لنعيد مد جسور الثقة بيننا ورعاية بعضنا بعضاً من أجل الإنسانية💚،
    وسعياً لتوحيد القوى لفتق أفق من الإحتمالات التي لا تحصى🌍،

    معا يمكننا بناءً مستقبل أفضل🌍.

    بواسطة 🇺🇳🇺🇳
    United Nations | الأمـــــمُ المتّـحــــدَة

    Thank you/شكراً لك.
    And may God’s peace be upon you/والسلام عليكم.

    Thank you/Shukran.

    ###
    .

  30. Entertain & Educate

    March 17, 2022 at 10:20 am

    سب سے زیادہ مٹی، گرد ہمیں پاکستان کی سڑکوں پر ملتی ہے. اور اوپر سے لوگ اچھی گاڑیوں میں بیٹھے کوڑا کرکٹ باہر سڑکوں پر پھینکتے.

  31. 咖哩曹長

    March 17, 2022 at 12:10 pm

    I agree with her,nowadays air pollution is affecting our life,such as increasing risk of chronic disease,just like what she talked.

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    March 17, 2022 at 12:52 pm

    The right solution to success is to have a greater desire for victory than a fear of failure

  33. Richard L.

    March 17, 2022 at 3:28 pm

    Awfully propaganda…👎

    • EonWhite

      March 18, 2022 at 2:26 am

      What do you mean by that?
      Are you saying this video is misrepresenting the truth?

  34. Noukz

    March 17, 2022 at 8:03 pm

    Air, water, food and shelter. In that order, are the necessities for survival for humans (and other animals). How many of us are DENIED the right to those, every day because of our incompetent, malevolent governments? BILLIONS
    People, don’t lose your loved ones before you get mad and actually do something for yourselves, and your children. Start today, not next year, or month on the first Monday, start TODAY!

  35. Kevin VanGelder

    March 17, 2022 at 10:07 pm

    Dislikes disabled, classic. Can’t vote on propaganda…

  36. 平和

    March 18, 2022 at 1:04 am

    Very strong! ❤

  37. baxtiyor nasullayev

    March 18, 2022 at 4:51 pm

    best

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