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More Than 95% of World's Population Breathing Unhealthy Air, Says New Report (cnn.com)
More than 95% of the world's population is breathing unhealthy air and the poorest nations are the hardest hit, a new report has found. From the report: According to the annual State of Global Air Report, published Tuesday by the Health Effects Institute (HEI), long-term exposure to air pollution contributed to an estimated 6.1 million deaths across the globe in 2016. The report says exposure to air pollution led to strokes, heart attacks, lung cancer and chronic lung disease, causing many of those premature deaths. It also says that air pollution is the fourth-highest cause of death among all health risks globally, coming in below high blood pressure, diet and smoking.
No there is a definate limit to how good things can be. People have a need to struggle. If they are put in a world that is for all intents and purpose an Eden. They will inevitably start fighting with their fellow humans. They will start wars for perceived minor injustices perpetrated on their ancestors by another tribe due to a lack of complete equality. They will break into camps called democrats and republicans and spend all say on the internet complaining about how the world couild be more perfect if only the other guys were all dead.
Now on the other hand if the world were full of toxic gasses, and people were being killed regularly by tigers roaming the city, and a meteor stuck and wiped out a couple billion people, inevitably people would become brothers and join forces to fight the toxic smog, saber tooth tigers and meteors that were killing them.
So yes if you want to have people stop fighting each other you need to make to world less perfect. That is why I support global warming and think we should burn old tires to light the streets.