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We've had the better part of a hundred years to fix this if we wanted to. The main reason nobody's doing anything about pollution deaths is that it mainly affec
by hnarn 6y ago
We've had the better part of a hundred years to fix this if we wanted to. The main reason nobody's doing anything about pollution deaths is that it mainly affects poor people. It also mainly affects people in poorer "non-western" countries, with the Western Pacific and the South-East Asia regions dwarfing all other regions. (2012) [1]
[1]: https://www.who.int/airpollution/data/AAP_BoD_results_March2014.pdf https://www.who.int/airpollution/data/AAP_BoD_results_March2...
- icebraining 6y agoAccording to figure 2, European regions are in 2nd and 4th places with most deaths per capita, with the value in high-income European countries almost as high as in South-East Asia.