The number of premature deaths due to air pollution is 7 million per year
According to Futurism, air pollution is like a ‘stealth killer.’ The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that premature deaths of 7 million people each year are related to air pollution. In the United States alone, between 7,500 and 52,000 people die each year due to exposure to tiny particulates emitted by power plants.
In fact, the latest release of the 2019 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) shows that air pollution has become the biggest environmental threat to public health.
The report was written by researchers at Yale University and Columbia University in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. It ranks 180 countries and territories using 24 performance indicators in 10 different categories, all of which are related to environmental health and ecosystem vitality. At the top of the list is Switzerland, followed by France, Denmark, Malta and Sweden. At the bottom are India, Bangladesh, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nepal. The United States ranks 27th, and it scores high on sanitation and air quality, but it is very bad in deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions.
EPI shows that air pollution is the number one threat to public health. The purpose of this report is not to scare the public, but to influence the relevant policies. Daniel C. Esty, director of Yale University’s Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Professor of Yale University’s Hillhouse, said: ‘As the international community begins to pursue new sustainable development goals, policymakers need to know: in energy and the environment. Who is in the lead and who is behind.’
Esti added: ‘The EPI in 2019 confirmed that sustainable development requires economic development, generating sufficient resources to invest in environmental infrastructure, carefully managing the industrialization and urbanization processes that lead to pollution, and industrialization and urbanization threaten public health and ecology. system.’
The 2019 EPI outlines the positions of countries in terms of pollution and environmental sustainability. However, it can also reveal trends within and across countries. The lowest-ranking countries lack support for a range of sustainable development issues, and the level of air pollution is the most terrible.
These large-scale studies and reports contain a lot of things. In addition to influencing policies and assessing sustainability efforts, they also reveal efforts to address pollution. For example, a recent study showed an improvement in air pollution in the United States between 1990 and 2012. The decline in pollution is very large and it is estimated that some 180,000 deaths have been prevented.
Air pollution is directly related to early brain development, which can have serious and terrible health effects on humans. As the world’s population continues to grow, develop and build, the situation may only get worse if more intense measures are not taken. Perhaps these reports will provide the government with better tools to better protect citizens from threats.
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