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WHO says 99% of world’s population breathes poor-quality air
The Associated Press ^ | April 4, 2022 | By JAMEY KEATEN

Posted on 04/04/2022 5:15:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year.

WHO said 99 percent of the global population breathes air that exceeds its air-quality limits and is often rife with particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs, enter the veins and arteries, and cause disease. Air quality is poorest in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia regions, followed by Africa, it said.

“After surviving a pandemic, it is unacceptable to still have 7 million preventable deaths and countless preventable lost years of good health due to air pollution,” said Dr. Maria Neira, head of WHO’s department of environment, climate change and health. “Yet too many investments are still being sunk into a polluted environment rather than in clean, healthy air.”

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1 posted on 04/04/2022 5:15:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Reset. Cut the population by 90%. Done.


2 posted on 04/04/2022 5:16:45 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There are a lot of oxygen thieves out there for sure.


3 posted on 04/04/2022 5:18:24 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Most of the “rest of the world” burns wood and animal dung for fuel. Got nothing to do with “fossil fuels.”


4 posted on 04/04/2022 5:19:16 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WHO is nuts.
They’d better get back to pushing COVID fear porn. They are better at that.


5 posted on 04/04/2022 5:19:28 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In a perfect world the air would be perfect.

The world has never been or ever will be perfect, I wish they’d stop crying about it.


6 posted on 04/04/2022 5:19:45 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a bunch of BS.


7 posted on 04/04/2022 5:20:55 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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Stop red meat, reduce your driving, turn off AC units, use public transportation, support Zelenskyy and Biden.


8 posted on 04/04/2022 5:23:16 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think I know where WHO is taking us on this one. We’re going to all have to wear GAS MASKS.


9 posted on 04/04/2022 5:26:31 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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But wait a minute Mr WHO??? The air that I breathe is through one of your sacred masks that filters out everything? I know because the good Dr F told me so!!!!!

WoW? Talk about two-faced sumbiches......

10 posted on 04/04/2022 5:27:21 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

After their COVID plandemic, they have ZERO credibility.
IF they said the sky is blue, one had better go outside and double check...twice, because these communist azzholes are nothing but a bunch of corrupt liars and frauds.


11 posted on 04/04/2022 5:28:33 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Then, wouldn’t that be average quality air?


12 posted on 04/04/2022 5:29:49 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
There needs to be a way to cut off so-called “greens” from all use of electricity derived from fossil and nuclear generation. They MUST be made to pay the price of their advocacy. Additionally, NOTHING should be considered “green” if 50% of its makeup was created by using fossil fuels. That would include steel used in solar and wind, and lithium mined using diesel-powered excavators.

MINES, MINERALS, AND “GREEN” ENERGY: A REALITY CHECK

13 posted on 04/04/2022 5:32:54 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I give up.

Who says 99% of world’s population breathes poor-quality air?

14 posted on 04/04/2022 5:40:03 AM PDT by x
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More Centralized gummit is the only cure.


15 posted on 04/04/2022 5:40:03 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BullScat!

https://waqi.info/


16 posted on 04/04/2022 5:50:50 AM PDT by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: muir_redwoods

Looks like the entire world lives in Lake Woebegone where everybody breathes below average air.


17 posted on 04/04/2022 5:54:54 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Sorry, I’m not a biologist.”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“WHO says 99% of world’s population breathes poor-quality air”

Oh goody goody. Here come the Climate Change Police to save us ... oh wait ... new world order????


18 posted on 04/04/2022 6:15:29 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The translation is that the migration of the world population to megacities is self governing.

Hyperdense city populations produce unhealthy air

And........ if a communicable disease gets lose......... very bad news.


19 posted on 04/04/2022 6:19:13 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: x; NobleFree

If they’re counting indoor air, Marijuana smoke can kill you and yours:

“Having no-pot-smoking laws, like no-tobacco-smoking laws, is essential to protect people from the harms of secondhand marijuana smoke, she said.

“We want to make sure that nonsmokers are not unfairly exposed to harmful products,” Hallett said. “We also don’t want to build another generation addicted to tobacco or cannabis products.”

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/side-effects-of-secondhand-marijuana-smoke


20 posted on 04/04/2022 6:24:43 AM PDT by Does so (https://youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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