Kirk Smith

Even though the cooking on the stove tastes good, the smoke from the stove is harmful to the environment. As an environmental scientist who emphasizes the health risks of these stoves, Kirk R. Smith had a reputation. With his demise, the environmentalist has lost his temper.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate change team won the Nobel Prize in 2007; He was a member of it. He also received the Tyler Prize for his in-depth study of air pollution. Smith was a professor at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. In the 1980s, Smith surveyed air pollution in Asia and Central America to study in-depth non-industrial pollution in rural, underdeveloped areas. He left the study of reactor accidents and later took up the same subject. He emphasized on the pollution caused by burning wood, coal and sorghum. He estimates that 40 percent of the world's population still cooks on stoves. For this, he did actual studies in countries like Nepal, China, India, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay.

They had built some equipment to measure indoor pollution. The World Health Organization estimates that 4 million people die of pneumonia each year as a result of this pollution. Women and children who stay at home for a long time are most affected. Dr. Smith started a dispensary for people facing pollution at his own expense and made gas stoves available to them. He spent part of his salary on providing gas stoves to people in underdeveloped areas. Born in Berkeley, Smith holds degrees in physics and astronomy. He later earned a master's degree in ecology. In Honolulu, he worked as a researcher for two decades. Later he was in Nepal and India for some time. He studied the environment to save the world from pollution. He chose the topic of kitchen pollution, which is a part of people's daily lives, so his research became useful to the public.