The fact that 9 million people are dead every year due to global environmental pollution

ByDamián Bakarcic

According to environmental pollution caused by the activities of every human being on the earth, in fact, 9 million people live per year worldwide and the investigation results that trillion dollars (hundreds of trillion yen) of costs are wasted It was done. I also know that not only the countries where the environmental improvement such as developing countries such as developing countries have not caught are suffering, but also the developed countries are included.

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health
http://www.thelancet.com/commissions/pollution-and-health

Global pollution kills 9m a year and threatens 'survival of human societies' | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/19/global-pollution-kills-millions-threatens-survival-human-societies

It is cited as one of the world's highest evaluated five medical journalsLancetThe paper published in the article gathers worldwide data on the health damage and social loss of people caused by environmental pollution which is not attracted much attention in fact. Infographic graphics that summarizes the actual condition are created based on the paper.

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The number of people losing their lives due to environmental pollution accounts for 92% of the total for people with low incomes and middle income in the middle, and is in vulnerable position with the poor in the world There are circumstances where people are biased and losing their lives. In addition, when children are still in their mother's womb or when they are exposed to a small amount of pollutants in early childhood, the disease, disability, risk of suffering over the lifetime, risk of premature death, further lowering of learning level and income level It is highlighting what is triggered. And it is said that 9 million people worldwide lose their lives at an early stage, and in fact it occupies 16% of the world as a whole. This is more than the number of lives deprived of high sodium diets, obesity, alcohol, traffic accidents and so on.


Graphs showing the causes of deaths worldwide are graphs showing that the highest number are attributable to all environmental pollution. Survey results show that tobacco and various diseases, malnutrition, traffic accidents, war and so on are lost, the health is impaired by pollutants and the lives are deprived.


One of the actual conditions of environmental pollution, air pollution is considered to be environmental pollution occurring in particular linked on a global scale. Emission substances discharged by burning fossil fuels in internal combustion engines such as engines in developed countries and emissions caused by burning biological fuel derived from living things in developing countries are caused by the causes of particulate contamination in the atmosphere Accounting for 85% of the total. The cause is coal burned at thermal power stations, flue gas from chemical plants, automobiles, etc. By simply replacing these energy sources with environmentally friendly ones, we are improving air pollution and improving people's health and the earth We can expect to improve the environment. Wealth estimated to be lost due to environmental pollution is estimated to be 4.6 trillion dollars (about 520 trillion yen) annually and it is considered to be 6.2% of global economic activity.


As environmental pollution, "traditional pollution" by burning fuel such as water source pollution and indoor tree and "contemporary contamination" due to air pollution and chemical substances exist, and since the beginning of the 2000s The proportion occupied by "modern pollution" is increasing. In other words, pollutants produced by contemporary human activities in industrialized countries have deprived the lives of poor and weak people living in economically weak countries such as developing countries.


It is the same in any country that environmental pollution countermeasures go backwards, and it is inevitable that emphasis is placed on measures with a short-term effect. However, in the United States, since the law to prevent air pollution took effect in the 1970s, there were instances where the major pollutants were reduced 70%, while the gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 250%. On this point, Professor Philip Landrigan of Mount Sinai Medical College who is one of the authors of the paper says, "From here it turns out that the discussion of" losing jobs due to pollution measures and damaging the economy "is a lie" I said.

However, it is pointed out that countries that are trying to promote the economy have movements that are currently driving drivers of environmental pollution. Because the government's economic subsidies are the driving force, in the paper, the government will review the attitude and take measures to balance pollution control and economic growth, so that the healthy development of mankind and the future of the earth will be a good direction I will point out.