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While modern nations focus efforts on reducing pollution, little effort is directed at poor nations, which include most of the world
There are over six billion people on Earth who eat cooked food and drink purified water daily. In poor countries, most cooking heat is provided by firewood, dry brush, leaves, and trash. This denudes the local landscape of vegetation and produces continual clouds of smoke that cover villages and cities. While the pollution from these small fires seems insignificant, there are nearly a billion fires burning at any give time, fueled by the world
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