Our world is a pretty dirty place for most of us and it hurts health of many people. A new World Health Organization (WHO) air quality model confirms that 92% of the world’s population lives in places where air quality levels exceed WHO limits. 92% of the world’s population exposed to unsafe levels of air pollution article from Science Daily tells that some 3 million deaths a year are linked to exposure to outdoor air pollution. Indoor air pollution can be just as deadly. In 2012, an estimated 6.5 million deaths (11.6% of all global deaths) were associated with indoor and outdoor air pollution together.
The new WHO model shows countries where the air pollution danger spots are: This WHO heat map shows the highest (red) and lowest (green) levels of air pollution worldwide.
WHO air quality model confirms that 92% of the world’s population lives in places where air quality levels exceed “WHO’s Ambient Air quality guidelines”.
I am pretty happy that I still live in the green zone…
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Air Pollution Causes ‘Huge’ Reduction in Intelligence, Study Reveals
https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/08/28/0113202/air-pollution-causes-huge-reduction-in-intelligence-study-reveals?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29
Air pollution causes a “huge” reduction in intelligence, according to new research, indicating that the damage to society of toxic air is far deeper than the well-known impacts on physical health.
Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/air-pollution-causes-huge-reduction-in-intelligence-study-reveals
Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’
Tomi Engdahl says:
Air Pollution Is the ‘New Tobacco,’ Warns WHO
https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/10/30/025202/air-pollution-is-the-new-tobacco-warns-who?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29
The head of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said air pollution is the “new tobacco” that is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more. “The world has turned the corner on tobacco. Now it must do the same for the ‘new tobacco’ — the toxic air that billions breathe every day,” said Tedros. “No one, rich or poor, can escape air pollution. It is a silent public health emergency.” The Guardian reports:
Air pollution is the ‘new tobacco’, warns WHO head
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/27/air-pollution-is-the-new-tobacco-warns-who-head
Exclusive: Simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more, but ‘a smog of complacency pervades the planet’, says Dr Tedros Adhanom
Tomi Engdahl says:
How China Is Scrambling for Clean Air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-GoO6Y9hHA
Smog in China is shortening lives. It got so bad that air pollution was said to have become the main cause of social unrest. The government’s response has been massive, with billions of yuan of investments in clean energy, but there’s still a long way to go. Bloomberg QuickTake explains how China is scrambling to clean its air.
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