Posted on 03/29/2017 1:27:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A study that measures the human toll of air pollution from global manufacturing and trade shows how buying goods made far away can lead to premature deaths both there and close to home.
More than 750,000 people die prematurely from dirty air every year that is generated by making goods in one location that will be sold elsewhere, about one-fifth of the 3.45 million premature deaths from air pollution. The study says 12 percent of those deaths, about 411,000 people, are a result of air pollution that has blown across national borders.
“It’s not a local issue anymore,” said study co-author Dabo Guan, an economist at the University of East Anglia in England. “It requires global cooperation.”
Producing more goods locally would change where deaths occur and potentially reduce overall deaths — if local emissions rules are tighter. Bringing back manufacturing to the United States, as President Donald J. Trump and politicians from both parties want, would bring more air pollution deaths to the U.S., but reduce deaths worldwide because pollution laws are stricter, Davis and others said.
Production is likely to remain concentrated in Asia, however, and it will have to be up to those countries to better regulate their own industrial emissions, said Peter Adams, an engineering professor and air pollution expert at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who wasn’t part of the study. “Relying on consumer altruism,” he said, won’t be enough.
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Marxist/fascist liberals would prefer that half or more of us die. Then we’d be easier for them to control.
More deflection. The elitists know if they can sell Global Warming, then they can make even more money selling carbon exchanges like Al Jazeera Gore had planned on until the movement went bust. It amazes me that people like him are not satisfied with owning a hundred million $ but want even more.
The Pacific NorthWest cried and moaned like present-day snowflakes, when Mt. St. Helens blew up.
One group, was all the forestry workers, since all that land and since-burnt timber belonged to Weyerhauser Lumber Corp. All that no-longer-work-to-be-done, and all that timber-not-to-be-sold.
The other group? Yup, you guessed it! ‘How dare that volcano spew all that ash and dust in the clean air of the NorthWest!!’ All that clean forest burned to a crisp! All the wildlife gone in a flash!
Love the graphic
A few years ago, in Central Texas, it was so dark you had to drive with the cars lights on in the middle of the day to see through the smoke caused by annual agricultural fires in Mexico a thousand miles away. We bought the last air ionizer Walmart had and still could barely breathe. Try putting up with that for days and days.
no thanks. I wonder how many died from it.
Dabo created more bad air by publishing this zero fact bs posing as a scientific study!
KILL Yourself to Save the World, circa 1970s..
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