Air pollution is taking three years from your life, on average, worldwide. None of us are exempt — though, young children and the elderly are more vulnerable. Recent findings indicate that the world is facing an air pollution “pandemic.”
Air pollution killed nearly 10,000 Americans in 2018, and 2019 must have seen a similar total.
It’s a fine balance to stay above the depression point when one is educated about the state of our environment, the state of our union, the state of our planet, the state of politics, and the legacy we are leaving for our grandchildren. A new report on air pollution doesn’t really help with that depression, but it is important for us to cover nonetheless.
A recent news item — €70 Billion A Year In EU Health Damage Caused By Vehicle Emissions — reminded me of the following article, which is a piece I wrote in 2016 to try to more directly communicate the issue to people. Initially, the opening line below was the title.
Scott Pruitt, still clinging to the helm of President Trump’s EPA, met with allies at the Heritage Foundation Wednesday for what one attendee described as a “deniers’ convention,” according to E&E News. Pruitt told attendees that he is planning to stop counting the co-benefits of environmental protections, The Daily Caller reported.
It is my 3rd year of driving a zero-emissions, 100% electric car — a 2015 Nissan LEAF. The smooth experience of driving a LEAF since 2015 led me to reflect on the tragic turns of the present White House administration since that very hopeful evening when I leased the LEAF in 2015.
Roughly 38,000 people die prematurely every year worldwide as a result of exposure to diesel exhaust, according to new research from the Environmental Health Analytics. Importantly, this figure will continue climbing over the coming years if decisive action isn’t taken, according to the researchers involved.
Internet searches show air pollution is concerning more and more people — searches relating to air pollution are up 750% in the past decade in the UK. Of course, part of that is from more people searching for information on Google, but part is simply increasing air pollution problems and people’s awareness of … [continued]
More and more, comprehensive scientific reports warn us of the dangers of diesel pollution. How much are we exposed to diesel each day? Do we want to know? Tim Johns for BBC measured his exposure in daily environments — transit, home, and work. What did these situations reflect in terms of … [continued]
Automobile pollution kills more people than automobile collisions do. That’s the rather blunt way of wording the recent findings of a study on the subject done by researchers at MIT. To word it another way — a notably greater number of annual premature deaths in the US can be attributed … [continued]
