Poisoned Poor Killed In Millions By Pollution

[Crabtownboy]

This is neither good nor surprising news.

What kills more people than HIV, malaria and tuberculosis every year? Air pollution. Tack on fouled water and poisoning by toxic waste and pollution killed 8.4 million people in 2012—or nearly three times as many people as those three diseases. Combined.

That's according to a new analysis by the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution based on data collected by the World Health Organization.

The problem is people breathing in the fumes of cooking fires in smoky homes or the soot from coal-fired power plants outside. Or there's the suffering caused by raw sewage in the water supply or poisonous heavy metals that get into the soil via industrial waste.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/pollution-kills-millions/

 

[Revmitchell]

I don't believe it for a second.

 

[church mouse guy]

I don't believe it for a second.

How can you doubt UN research? At any rate, do you want to bring back DDT just to save the lives of some third-world peoples who are dying of malaria?

 

[SolaSaint]

Don't forget the evil combustion engine.

 

[church mouse guy]

Don't forget the evil combustion engine.

Exactly, we have to get rid of this old-fashioned technology and go to electric motor.

The really sincere people have already gotten rid of their computers because of the smoke from the electric plants. We have to get rid of coal and go to natural gas even if some people freeze to death and even if only the liberal Democrats can afford to pay twice as much for electricity.

www.countoncoal.org

 

[Rolfe]

Don't forget the evil combustion engine.

...Which power tractors that make large-scale farm production possible.

Perhaps they would prefer starvation.

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

I don't believe it for a second.

Yeah, well ... consider the source(s).

 

[Bro. Curtis]

I can't find the actual report. It is not linked.


And, C.T.Boys link seems to say pollution might not be the primary agent.