If you travel to 3rd world countries you may breathe Toxic Air too

I can remember even being in Bodh Gaya, India in Bihar State in 1985 and early 1986 there with the Dalai Lama receiving the Kalachakra Tantra with 500,000 others at the time. However, it might also be important to know that often the air was brown with the smell of burning plastic mixed with the smell of burning Cow poop mostly from Water Buffaloes and Yaks and Dzos which are common work animals in the region then in 1985 and 1986. You could smell the burning plastic and cow poop in the air that people were using for cooking food because it was too hot to need to heat their homes. It was just used for cooking.

Most of these people living in this area were too poor to worry about whether burning plastic was carcinogenic or not, and most didn't worry whether burning cow poop that was dried affected the taste or the safety of their food when they ate it either. And Giardia was and likely still is endemic throughout parts of ASIA including India still from the water which becomes infected from cattle feces often as well even if it is being pumped out of deeper wells. So, this is one reason people are mostly skinny  because they have this in their system all the time (giardia).

I also got giardia along with 4 out of the 5 members of my family while traveling in India, Nepal, Thailand and Japan from December 1985 until April 1986.

I am still dealing with things like being Hypothyroid which I can trace back to this as well through my nurse practitioner of Aryuvedic Medicine here in the U.S.

But, Toxic air is something you are likely to see much more commonly in 3rd world nations.

Why is this?

Because most 3rd world nations do not have compulsory public education. I'm not even sure India has this yet.

When I was there in 1985 and 1986 between 40% to 60% of the people had not even been to 1st grade because they didn't have the clean clothes required and suits required for this in India.

If you were not cleanly suited up and dressed you could not go to school at all then everywhere I knew about.

So, if you cannot even go to school because you are too poor how can you be taught that burning plastic is carcinogenic and might give your kids cancer by breathing the air from burning plastic from the smoke from the plastic?

If you have been to 3rd to 5th grade your teacher likely has already told you about this. But, what if you never went to school a day in your life like 40% to 60% of the people I saw in India in 1985 and 1986?