Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Latest from ABC News/ 6 million premature deaths from Air Pollution

From Yahoo News/ ABC News  February 7, 2013



The latest stats from WHO as featured in Yahoo/ ABC News reports now that there are 6 million premature deaths attributed to air pollution.  It used to be just 2,000,000 a year in 2006.  It has now gone up 3x.  China alone contributes 1.2 million (up from 700,000 in 2007!)

This was told by Dr. Maria Neira Director of  Public Health and Environment in an interview with Christiane Amanpour of ABC News.

Air Pollution really kills;  what do we do then?

GMA newsreport airpollution deaths is more than caused by AIDS and Malaria combined 

So do we have air pollution as weapon of mass destruction in MM?

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