Millions of people around the world are dying from pollution

[Cotton1]

92% of the fatals are non American huh? Sounds like a good start to me

[MisterVeritis]

I applaud your concern. There are many causes of mass death:

Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 7,000,000 deaths per year. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_sta...acts/index.htm There are 480,000 deaths from smoking each year in the US alone.

There are 1,250,000 road-related crashes worldwide each year, including 38,000 deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents per year in the US alone. https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_...n_U.S._by_year

More than 3 million people die from vaccine-preventable diseases each year. Approximately 1.5 million of these deaths are in children less than 5 years old. https://www.chop.edu/centers-program...nes-world-view

Alcohol causes 3,000,000 deaths per year. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-s...detail/alcohol

"What killed them?"

"Choice."

[MisterVeritis]

In one of the most extensive reports of its kind, environmental health experts have estimated that nine million premature deaths worldwide—16% of all deaths—were linked to pollution in 2015, with the majority of deaths coming from air pollution.

The new study, published in the journal The Lancet and written by more than 40 international health and environmental experts, uses data from the the Global Burden of Disease, an international study that examines trends across populations and estimates mortality from major diseases and their causes. To estimate the number of people who died from pollution-related causes, it looked at the effects of air pollution, or air contaminated with things like gases and the burning of wood, charcoal and coal; water pollution, which includes contamination by things like unhygienic sanitation; and workplace pollution, where employees are exposed to toxins and carcinogens like coal or asbestos.

"To estimate the number of people who died from pollution-related causes, it looked at the effects of air pollution, or air contaminated with things like gases and the burning of wood, charcoal and coal; water pollution, which includes contamination by things like unhygienic sanitation; and workplace pollution,..."


I love your stories. I really do. Thank you for posting words rather than a link or a video with no comments.

Anytime 40 people collude to tell a story one can bet there is a political agenda involved.

These people made up some numbers.

[DGUtley]

"What killed them?" "Choice."

How is second hand smoke choice?
How is getting killed in a car crash a choice?

[Just AnotherPerson]

How many people do you believe have died "from fracking" "and nuclear"?

I assume you mean in nuclear accidents of some sort.

No contamination. You don't know because you don't believe radiation is dangerous, because you don't believe in facts and science. I will not pretend to know the numbers on a study that has never been conducted.

[Just AnotherPerson]

I applaud your concern. There are many causes of mass death:

Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 7,000,000 deaths per year. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_sta...acts/index.htm There are 480,000 deaths from smoking each year in the US alone.

There are 1,250,000 road-related crashes worldwide each year, including 38,000 deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents per year in the US alone. https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_...n_U.S._by_year

More than 3 million people die from vaccine-preventable diseases each year. Approximately 1.5 million of these deaths are in children less than 5 years old. https://www.chop.edu/centers-program...nes-world-view

Alcohol causes 3,000,000 deaths per year. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-s...detail/alcohol

I applaud your attempt to downplay the seriousness of man caused mass deaths of innocent people. Nice, be proud of yourself now.

[MisterVeritis]

How is second hand smoke choice?
How is getting killed in a car crash a choice?

Do you believe 480,000 people died from second hand tobacco smoke? Of course you don't. Smokers chose tobacco.

I do not believe 41,000 people died from second-hand smoke. It is nonsensical on its face.

And people killed in car wrecks, most did not choose to make driving the most important task they were doing.

"The majority of car accidents could be avoided if only the drivers would drive more responsibly. About 40% of car accident fatalities occur because of a drunken driver. About 30% of the car accident fatalities can be attributed to driving above the speed limits and 33% and above because of reckless driving that causes the car to go off the road and result in an accident.The majority of car accident victims are the drivers, then the passengers of the car, followed by pedestrians, and lastly cyclists."

http://www.lawcore.com/car-accident/statistics.html

[MisterVeritis]

How many people do you believe have died "from fracking" "and nuclear"?

I assume you mean in nuclear accidents of some sort.

No contamination. You don't know because you don't believe radiation is dangerous, because you don't believe in facts and science. I will not pretend to know the numbers on a study that has never been conducted.

Did you mean you believe people are killed by contamination? If so where is your evidence?

How many people died from contamination resulting from fracking? And how many people died from contamination from nuclear sites?

I see you admit you just made it up.

[Captdon]

Actually it is. What affects them affects us too. This was not just about around the world 155,000 of the people that die from pollution live here in the US. That was back in 2015, I imagine that number is much higher now.

Call it a study and you get sucked in. I see the Chinese wearing masks and the background is pure smog. You rarely see that here. How in the world can you tell if someone die from pollution? How is that possible?

[Captdon]

I bet the numbers are so much higher than that. No one factors in people who died from fracking and nuclear, and all that crap.

I am not asking you to make the world your problem. I posted an article. What I am saying is that what happens to the people in the rest of the world will affect us too, even if we don't know it. That is a scientific or statistical truth. That is not the same as me telling you to make the world your problem. You don't even care about the people in your own nation why would I ask you to care about the world? That would just be absurd. You don't give a damn if a persons water is contaminated by frack water, or if they die from pollution, you just push your narrative that there is no such a thing as pollution, and things like that don't harm anyone. But you are free to believe in your own ignorance. But I will not live in that world.

You will not live in that world? You live in a fantasy world.

There can't be any proof when you can't define a death as from pollution. You can't.

I can say what he believes but I imagine if his water was being poisoned he would do something about it. I, of course, don't care. Not my water, not my problem.