Pollution Is Killing 50,000 People In The UK Every Year

by Guest Sat Oct 21, 2017 9:25 am

9 million deaths worldwide in 2015 caused by pollution
Dirty air and polluted water were biggest contributors
Greatest number of deaths occurred in India and China
Deaths caused by diseases including heart conditions, cancers and strokes
In 2015 pollution was responsible for x3 as many deaths as AIDS, TB and malaria

Pollution is killing 50,000 people a year in the UK, a report in the Lancet has found.
The figure constitutes 8% of all deaths and puts the UK in 55th place out of the 188 countries measured – higher than the US and many European countries including Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Denmark.

Dr Penny Woods, chief executive of the British Lung Foundation said: “Air pollution is reaching crisis point worldwide, and the UK is fairing much worse than many countries in Western Europe and the US.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/pollution-is-killing-50000-people-in-the-uk-every-year_uk_59e9a808e4b0df10767c15ff?utm_hp_ref=uk

by HoratioTarr Sat Oct 21, 2017 10:45 am

This is truly scary. We're really going to hell in a handcart if we don't get a grip of this and the pesticides that are killing our insects/wildlife. The GM crops and the seeds that won't reproduce so that farmers have to go to the seed suppliers year after year, the seeds that are contaminated at a genetic level with pesticides! The destruction of the rain forests. Seas of plastic. The list goes on and on and on and....