More Reasons To Stop Destroying Our Planet

A few occasions the Climate Deniers, ignoring the mountains of evidence and agreement of 99% of climate scientists, say to me about green measures what if you are wrong and we do all this for nothing and my standard reply is that we end up with a cleaner healthier Planet and the 10 weeks of lock-down has shown that with the lack of humans messing up the place with their cars and industrial fumes, the planet is a healthier and cleaner place.
Rivers are cleaner, air pollution is decreasing significantly and the damaging CO2 emissions this year could be the lowest for decades from reduced airline flights, car and truck journeys and industrial activity falling.
As well as a cleaner, healthier planet, studies show that air pollution is linked to impaired judgement, mental health problems, poorer performance in school and higher levels of crime and worringly, the World Health Organization says nine out of 10 of us frequently breathe in polluted air and air pollution kills an estimated seven million people per year.  
One study by London School of Economics looked at students taking exams on different days and measured how much pollution was in the air on those given days and found that the most polluted days correlated with the worst test scores. On days where the air quality was cleanest, students performed better.
Another LSE study analysed two years of crime data from over London’s districts and found that more petty crimes occurred on the most polluted days, in both rich and poor areas.
This was backed up by US studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology who examined nine years of data covering 9,000 US cities and discovered that the cities that had the highest crime rates for manslaughter, rape, robbery, car theft and assault also had the highest pollution levels and the same results were found in a study by the University of Southern California who cross-checked the pollution levels in US cities with truancy, stealing, vandalism and substance abuse.
The research is ongoing but the initial thoughts are that breathing in polluted air affects the amount of oxygen you have in your body resulting in reduced 'good air' going to your brain and irritates the nose, throat, cause headaches which lowers our concentration levels.
Exposure to various pollutants also causes inflammation in the brain which affects the pre-frontal lobe which is the area important for controlling our impulses, our executive function and self-control.
King’s College London found that teenagers exposed to polluted air are at a higher risk of psychotic episodes, such as hearing voices or paranoia so plenty more reasons for our World leaders to do something more about what we are doing to our planet if seven million deaths a year was not already enough of an incentive.