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Around 2.2 Million Deaths in a Year in India and China From Air Pollution (cnbc.com)
India is on the verge of overtaking China as the country with the most deaths caused by air pollution, the world's biggest environmental killer, according to research published on Tuesday. From a report: The State of Global Air 2017 report states that extensive, long-term exposure to fine particulate matter contributed to more than four million premature deaths in 2015. The report is a joint effort between the Health Effects Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evalution's Global Burden of Disease Project. "We are seeing increasing air pollution problems worldwide," Dan Greenbaum, president of the Health Effects Institute, said in a statement. "The trends we report show that we have seen progress in some parts of the world -- but serious challenges remain," Greenbaum went on to add. The report's analysis showed that India -- with extra exposure and its aging population -- now competes with China in terms of air pollution health burdens. Both countries saw around 1.1 million early deaths due to air pollution in 2015.
They would have died eventually
Force sterilization sounds like a better plan.
India needs a ruling Republican party!
... but what kind of doctor will attribute a particular death to air pollution? There is no question that air quality is very poor and heavy industry shits on people in certain areas but pulling a hard number like that out of it is odd.
The climate denier Trump needs to take responsibility for this pollution and proactively be part of the solution.
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Presumably the air pollution is coming from some activities that raise living standards to afford clean water, public hospitals, health insurance, and reduced crime. Can we have a figure on how many lives are saved by air pollution as well?
Yes in an ideal world we can have both so it's important to recognize air pollution is more than an eyesore.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
The USA outsources its manufacturing to the developing world, and then lobbies in those countries against any kind of worker or environmental protections. The USA lobbied for the third world to be exempt from the Kyoto accords. The USA lobbied for India to shoot down its comprehensive environmental protection policy. The USA constantly urges China to withhold any efforts to implement any kind of labor laws.
So, Americans, you have the blood of 2.2 million people a year on your hands. More than Hitler. More than Stalin. More than Mussolini. More than Lenin.
It's cheap! Life, like coal, is cheap! Let's just burn whatever, people die anyway, and let the future generations suffer-I-mean-sort it out, right?
Heaven forbid we spend money on energy that doesn't directly kill us, that's un-Republican!
Too many people already. It is high time Nature takes its course. We have sustained artificially high populations for far too long, and it is destroying the Earth. Projected population for Africa by 2050 is 3 billion. India and China already are at the tipping point. As harsh as it is to say, a nuclear war or a catastrophic global epidemic would a good thing in so much as it would restore balance to the Earth's ecosystems. There are too many people in India, China, and Africa. Without chemical based agriculture to sustain the populations with cheap nutrition-free startch, nature would have already adjusted things.
The world is laughing at us... but Trump will fix it
The world has too many people.
In countries which have refused to address this problem, deaths are going to help this problem.
Just as an FYI the total number of deaths from every single cause in the US is about 2.5 million per year.
We need to kill off 2.2 (puts pinky to lips) Billion a year!
Here is the actual report: State of Global Air 2017
This is 0.1% if India and China's population.
A lot of people, but a small percentage.
And very hard to attribute with certainty.
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on a per capita basis vs. other industrialized countries.
That's because we are better than everyone else. Now if only we could get black people to stop killing each other so frequently... #blacklivesmatter
as terrorist attacks in the United States!
For those who think that they are 'lucky' to be living far away from India and China, I think our problems are even worse. It has already been proven that high levels of particulate matter lead to dementia, a fate far worse than death.
Plutocrat: "Ahh, I love the smell of dereg in the morning. Smells like ... profits!"
Table-ized A.I.
Why does the U.S. allow India and China to continue leading in deaths from air pollution? We need to bring those jobs back to the U.S. Get rid of the EPA! More air-pollution-related deaths in America now!
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No great loss. Believe me, folks.
Presumably the air pollution is coming from some activities that raise living standards to afford clean water, public hospitals, health insurance, and reduced crime.
Nope.
In India, the worst of the air pollution is generated from burning fields after harvest. There are other technologies to clear the fields, such as a tractor-mounted seeder, which is actually better for the fields, as well as for the air-- but they cost over a thousand dollars each, far too much for the small farmers.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/delhi-chokes-on-smoke-from-neighbouring-states/story-zAkXkflle5MoUXLNYfZa0H.html
http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-air-poolution-in-haryana-farmers-say-burning-fields-their-only-option-3739415/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/world/asia/farmers-unchecked-crop-burning-fuels-indias-air-pollution.html?_r=0
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The way the right wing wants to handle abolition of abortion and the welfare of children born to poor mothers is to simply cancel all the welfare programs. After that it is only a matter of rounding up delinquents in 15 years and put them in prison / work camps. Now all your buddies who own for-profit prisons make money on the contracts you throw their way (graft). And you look good to your right wing base because you've dealt with all the deadbeats in society.
You know, you would think with all those uber intelligent STEM field pros in India they could solve such a problem. I mean that's why we want those geniuses to come over here and work in Silicon Valley.
We'll make great pets
But it's OK. Thanks to The Donald, I'm sure we'll close this gap quickly. After all, if he's going to bring back jobs to the U.S. while preserving American lifestyles, something's got to give. Why not something that nobody important will care about, like the environment?
I just saw a WOMAN who looked like ELON MUSK and I JIZZED my PANTS!
That's what happens when people are too stupid to recognize when they should stop having children.
Whenever I see ads to "feed the poor children" I think that it would be a better idea to send books to women and condoms to men.
Mod me down if you please. Overpopulation is a very important subject, it will dictate whether our future will be shitty or extra shitty but it's somehow politically incorrect to even mention this topic.
pollution far excess the savings thy get by burning coal.
Sure, why not.
We can easily have one without the other, your iPhone just costs a bit more (and really just a bit, Motorola was building phones cleanly and profitably in the states but moved back to China because it was so much cheaper). Anyway nice straw man.
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and there are now more solar jobs than coal jobs. Clean coal is a myth. The air scrubbers cost so much other tech takes over.
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Shit 2.2 million a year is a great start. Given how both China and India are both shitting worthless subhuman garbage all over the earth, something has to give. Plenty more need to die before natural resource wars start. And they're going to be looking west when it comes to that. Here's hoping they lose another 2.2 million. Maybe one day we'll see them loose 100 million +. Then maybe they'll bring their population down to reasonable numbers.
Less than 1% of the population. How'd they notice?
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Only the visual of such a machine are not so good, but that is irrelevant if you want cheap clean air.
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