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Title    Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015
Date    Saturday October 21 2017, @07:02PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the I'm-gonna-stay-in-my-basement dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/10/20/2337200

takyon writes:

A Lancet Commission report has found that pollution is now the leading cause of disease and death worldwide:

Exposure to polluted air, water and soil caused nine million premature deaths in 2015, according to a report published Thursday in The Lancet.

The causes of death vary — cancer, lung disease, heart disease. The report links them to pollution, drawing upon previous studies that show how pollution is tied to a wider range of diseases than previously thought.

Those studies observed populations exposed to pollutants and compared them to people not exposed. The studies have shown that pollution can be an important cause of diseases — many of them potentially fatal — including asthma, cancer, neurodevelopmental disorders, birth defects in children, heart disease, stroke and lung disease.

The nine million figure adds up to 16 percent of all deaths worldwide, killing three times more people than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. Pollution is responsible for 15 times more deaths than wars and all other forms of violence. "No country is unaffected," the report notes. But 92 percent of those deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries.

Air pollution deaths in Southeast Asia are expected to double by 2050.

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32345-0) (DX)

Also at The Guardian and Human Rights Watch.

Related: Pollution responsible for quarter of deaths of young children, says WHO


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  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "Lancet Commission report" - http://www.thelancet.com/commissions/pollution-and-health
  3. "pollution is now the leading cause of disease and death worldwide" - http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/19/558821792/report-pollution-kills-3-times-more-than-aids-tb-and-malaria-combined
  4. "premature deaths" - https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms?cdrid=748385
  5. "The Lancet Commission on pollution and health" - http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32345-0/fulltext
  6. "DX" - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32345-0
  7. "The Guardian" - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/19/global-pollution-kills-millions-threatens-survival-human-societies
  8. "Human Rights Watch" - https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/10/19/pollution-one-worlds-biggest-killers
  9. "Pollution responsible for quarter of deaths of young children, says WHO" - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/06/pollution-quarter-of-deaths-of-young-children-who
  10. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=22871

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