Posted on 05/18/2022 11:24:49 AM PDT by PROCON
Pollution cuts more lives short worldwide than war, terrorism, malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, drugs or alcohol.
That's the takeaway of a report published Tuesday in The Lancet Planetary Health, which analyzed the combined health risks of air, water and toxic chemical pollution in 2019. The results show that pollution is responsible for around 9 million premature deaths each year, or one in six globally. That puts its toll on par with smoking.
"We haven't been yelling from the top of the streets, saying, 'Look at this!' loud enough,'" said Richard Fuller, the report's lead author and the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Pure Earth, which focuses on addressing pollution in low- and middle-income countries.
Fuller's report is one of two this week that have sounded the alarm about the insidious danger of pollution. The second study, published Monday, looked at the U.S. and calculated that 53,000 premature deaths could be prevented per year in the country if all energy-related emissions were eliminated.
Fuller's study found that more than 90 percent of pollution-related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. The countries with the highest pollution-related deaths in 2019 were India, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and Indonesia.
Air pollution — from sources like vehicles, power plants and crop burning — is the most dire threat, since it was responsible for more than 6.5 million deaths in 2019, more than any other form of pollution that year. Air pollution increases the risk of heart disease, respiratory infections, lung cancer, tuberculosis, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, kidney disease and low birth weight, all of which can lead to premature death.
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Women, children and minorities hardest hit!
And now besides just dangerous pollution, we're all gonna die from covid-saturated pollution which means all of the Erf's population should be dead by Christmas. Oh well, it's been a good run.
Death rate from Communism is greater.
Only thing being yelled is …. Give me money
Super duper pseudo science.
Just the name of the journal gives it away.
The US is the cleanest industrialized country in the world.
China is the dirtiest.
Imagine what the death rate was back when the average home in the city burned coal,wood or oil.
This is an improvement, not a decline.
Hundreds of millions are going to starve in the Third World this year because of eco-fasicsm.
I am sure the people of Sri Lanka are pretty worried about pollution this week.......
The left is the biggest threat of all.
Dilemma alert.
Do we classify this as one of the media daily mandatory health fear porn release, one of the mandatory climate fear porn release, or both? Were women (whatever that means) and minorities affected most (also mandatory)?
Not having food, modern medicine, efficient transport or electricity killed far more.
Certainly it did. Those turn of the century “soot reports” in your paper was advancing technology.
There probably is a line in the sand for public health but that was 100 years ago.
Today is a tough call. Dropping petro is out of the question.
go tell that jelly to Communist China, India, and whoever else puts out.
oh, yeah, go tell that to all those upstart volcanoes, for spewing their stuff, too! the nerve of them, really!!
AND of course “people of color” and the ONLY solution is more government power, less freedom, and higher taxes.
How much pollution is caused by the “Green” energy sector?
calculated AKA ginned up a number to hype our agenda.
Is this the 1970’s again? Will we see the return of Woodie the Owl “Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute”? Maybe children’s TV shows scaring the crap out of kids about pollution? Oh, never mind, they already do that about Gorebull Warming.
My average home does burn wood in the winter.
Not big on chemical pollution. But also not big on studies that just make everything up. It seems these numbers would be impossible to really calculate accurately.
Anyone who has ever been to India or China knows how filthy their air is. It’s black or grey even at noon time so heavy with diesel fumes you can taste it. Then when they burn the fields to clear them the sky’s are darkened for days even in the country side. The air in Hyderabad made me have an asthma attack for the first time in 15 years the second day there I was glad to be back in the “clean Air” of Houston. Worst three weeks of lung health ever in India it was terrible. Bangkok and Hanoi both were similar grey brown funk hanging in the air with a heavy scent of diesel and sewage. It is of little surprise that third world countries with no EPA or Clean Air act have crap air quality. Hate the EPA all you want but they have drastically cleaned up American cities air even LA and Houston relative to the 1970s and 80s
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