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originally posted by: Ohanka
It's mostly from the developing world.
In Mumbai India, for example, breathing the air for one day is as bad for you as smoking 60 cigarettes a day (makes my 20 a day habit seems more reasonable).
I don't even want to imagine how bad it is in the industrial cities of China.
Woow.. 9 mills..
originally posted by: Pandaram
originally posted by: Ohanka
It's mostly from the developing world.
In Mumbai India, for example, breathing the air for one day is as bad for you as smoking 60 cigarettes a day (makes my 20 a day habit seems more reasonable).
I don't even want to imagine how bad it is in the industrial cities of China.
I heard somewhere breathing air for one day in 1910 coventry in england is like smoking 500 cigarettes in one go. Air quality was so bad in london those days, all house were dusted with ash. We all know yhe history.
But obviously all yhe dramas about air quality was lie and fake news . So is now. String lives and the week dies.
originally posted by: Pandaram
Woow.. 9 mills.. yey more oxygen to me!!!
Nothing going to change. No one going to stop.
Pollution is not what you do for fun, its what you do for living.
Then again we will evolve in to live with ever changing climate.
originally posted by: CB328
Woow.. 9 mills..
What a stupid comment. That's a huge number of people to dismiss carelessly.
If one embryo dies people have a cow, but industry can kill millions and that's just fine?
originally posted by: CB328
Wake up people, I've been saying for years that business is the most deadly thing on this planet, here's some more proof. Almost ten million people a year killed by pollution. When you add in everything else like stress, defense contractors, enriching dictators and rogue regimes, and health insurance denials and the numbers get very big very quickly. Americans are too busy being brainwashed to see what the real danger to the world is. Too many of us believe propaganda about government and socialism and can't see the obvious reality.
www.popsci.com...
Eleven percent of the black carbon pollution in the western USA comes from China
Too many of us believe propaganda about government and socialism and can't see the obvious reality.
originally posted by: VengefulGhost
And ?
Sooner or later everyone dies from something nobody gets out of life alive .
Despite its substantial effects on human health, the
economy, and the environment, pollution has been
neglected, especially in low-income and middle-income
countries, and the health effects of pollution are underestimated
in calculations of the global burden of disease.
Pollution in low-income and middle-income countries
that is caused by industrial emissions, vehicular exhaust,
and toxic chemicals has particularly been overlooked in
both the international development and the global health
agendas. Although more than 70% of the diseases
caused by pollution are non-communicable diseases,
interventions against pollution are barely mentioned in
the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of
Non-Communicable Diseases.
Pollution is costly. Pollution-related diseases cause
productivity losses that reduce gross domestic product
(GDP) in low-income to middle-income countries by up
to 2% per year. Pollution-related disease also results in
health-care costs that are responsible for 1·7% of
annual health spending in high-income countries and
for up to 7% of health spending in middle-income
countries that are heavily polluted and rapidly
developing. Welfare losses due to pollution are
estimated to amount to US$4·6 trillion per year:
6·2% of global economic output. The costs attributed to
pollution-related disease will probably increase as
additional associations between pollution and disease are identified
The Lancet Countdown tracks progress on health and climate change and provides an independent assessment of the health effects of climate change, the implementation of the Paris Agreement,1 and the health implications of these actions. It follows on from the work of the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change,2 which concluded that anthropogenic climate change threatens to undermine the past 50 years of gains in public health, and conversely, that a comprehensive response to climate change could be “the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century”. ...
originally posted by: SR1TX
It would take 450 years to lose 4.5 Billion with a population currently of 7.5 Billion and estimated to reach 10 by 2030.
Not sure what business has to do with pollution, but I don't see the doom.
Airborne contaminants were the leading cause of death by pollution, claiming 6.5 million lives in 2015 from a mixture of heart disease, strokes, and respiratory ailments. This includes both outdoor air pollution—toxins like the mercury spewed by coal fired plants and car emissions—and indoor air pollution caused by burning wood and dung for heat.