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Ten million a year die from air pollution (2021) | Hacker News

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You can click on a particular region and see exactly how the air quality impacts you long-term and also can see the developments from 1998 till today. It is interesting to see e.g. for China that the air quality got substantially worse until the 2010s and then better in recent years -the same development the article talks about. Other countries like e.g. India unfortunately seem to get worse. I often use this map and information on life years lost when advocating for clean air action in my talks as it makes the more abstract micrograms or standard AQIs much more tangible. [1] https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/the-index/ reply reply reply We know that air pollution is bad, but how can we say "this person died from air pollution"? One can die from cancer, we know it is the cause of death because we detected cancer cells and the symptoms are consistent with cancer. Air pollution may have been the cause, or it could have been many other things, including bad luck, we can't really attribute th

If you like to see how much of your life expectancy is lost due to air pollution in your particular region or city, I can recommend the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) map [1] created by the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute. You can click on a particular region and see exactly how the air quality impacts you long-term and also can see the developments from 1998 till today. It is interesting to see e.g. for China that the air quality got substantially worse until the 2010s and then better in recent years -the same development the article talks about. Other countries like e.g.…

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