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posted by martyb on Saturday May 14 2016, @04:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the clean-it-up dept.

Over 80 percent of the world's city dwellers breathe poor quality air, increasing their risk of lung cancer and other life-threatening diseases, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report warned Thursday.

Urban residents in poor countries are by far the worst affected, WHO said, noting that nearly every city (98 percent) in low- and middle-income countries has air which fails to meet the UN body's standards.

That number falls to 56 percent of cities in wealthier countries.

"Urban air pollution continues to rise at an alarming rate, wreaking havoc on human health," Maria Neira, the head of WHO's department of public health and environment, said in a statement.

There may be something to this--children in New York City are twice as likely to be hospitalized for asthma as the national average.


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2016, @06:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2016, @06:30PM (#346129)

    Uber is appy, bro. Apps gonna fix everthing.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2016, @01:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2016, @01:17AM (#346228)

    If the hire-a-ride gig economy does solve something, I suspect it will be the thing where expensive machinery sits idle for 95 percent of the time.

    Now, if rides could be pooled nicely during peak hours and all the hire-a-ride vehicles were electric, *that* would seriously impact the air quality problem.

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