Good News on Clean Air – If …
When we think about the climate crisis our minds often, quite rightly, go to how greenhouse gas emissions are causing the global temperature to rise, causing catastrophic storms, floods, fires, and hunger. We sometimes forget that burning fossil fuels is also the primary cause of global air pollution and its horrendous effects on health and mortality.
In 2021 more than 8 million deaths worldwide were attributed to air pollution. That’s roughly one out of every 8 deaths caused by air pollution. New studies show that about 61% of these are attributable to pollution caused by fossil fuels. That means that air pollution from fossil fuels kills close to 5 million people a year globally. Of course, the number of people suffering from asthma and other respiratory diseases caused by air pollution is much greater than that.
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