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Study: World pollution deadlier
than wars, disasters, hunger
By KATY DAIGLE
Associated Press
NEW DELHI — Envi-
ronmental pollution — from
filthy air to contaminated
water — is killing more
people every year than all war
and violence in the world.
More than smoking, hunger
or natural disasters. More
than AIDS, tuberculosis and
malaria combined.
One out of every six
premature deaths in the world
in 2015 — about 9 million
— could be attributed to
disease from toxic exposure,
according to a major study
released Thursday in The
Lancet medical journal. The
financial cost from pollu-
tion-related death, sickness
and welfare is equally massive,
the report says, costing some
$4.6 trillion in annual losses
— or about 6.2 percent of the
global economy.
“There’s been a lot of
study of pollution, but it’s
never received the resources
or level of attention as, say,
AIDS or climate change,”
said epidemiologist Philip
Landrigan, dean of global
health at the Icahn School
of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
New York, and the lead
author on the report.
The report marks the first
attempt to pull together data
on disease and death caused
by all forms of pollution
combined.
“Pollution is a massive
problem that people aren’t
seeing because they’re
looking at scattered bits of
it,” Landrigan said.
Experts say the 9 million
premature deaths the study
found was just a partial
estimate, and the number of
people killed by pollution
is undoubtedly higher and
will be quantified once more
research is done and new
methods of assessing harmful
impacts are developed.
Areas like Sub-Saharan
Africa have yet to even set
up air pollution monitoring
systems. Soil pollution has
received scant attention.
AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File
In this June 5 file photo, toxic froth from industrial pollution floats on Bellundur
Lake on World Environment Day, in Bangalore, India. Environmental pollution —
from filthy air to contaminated water — is killing more people every year than all
war and violence in the world.
And there are still plenty of
potential toxins still being
ignored, with less than half
of the 5,000 new chemicals
widely dispersed throughout
the environment since 1950
having been tested for safety
or toxicity.
Asia and Africa are the
regions putting the most
people at risk, the study
found, while India tops the
list of individual countries.
One out of every four
premature deaths in India in
2015, or some 2.5 million,
was attributed to pollution,
the study found. China’s
environment was the second
deadliest, with more than 1.8
million premature deaths, or
one in five, blamed on pollu-
tion-related illness.
Several other countries
such Bangladesh, Pakistan,
North Korea, South Sudan
and Haiti also see nearly a
fifth of their premature deaths
caused by pollution.
To reach its figures, the
study’s authors used methods
outlined by the U.S. Environ-
mental Protection Agency for
assessing field data from soil
tests, as well as with air and
water pollution data from the
Global Burden of Disease,
an ongoing study run by
institutions including the
World Health Organization
and the Institute for Health
Metrics and Evaluation at the
University of Washington.
Even the conservative
estimate of 9 million
pollution-related deaths is
one-and-a-half times higher
than the number of people
killed by smoking, three
times the number killed
by AIDS, tuberculosis and
malaria combined, more than
six times the number killed in
road accidents, and 15 times
the number killed in war
or other forms of violence,
according to GBD tallies.
It is most often the world’s
poorest who suffer. The vast
majority of pollution-related
deaths — 92 percent —
occur in low- or middle-in-
come developing countries,
where policy makers are
chiefly concerned with
developing their economies,
lifting people out of poverty
and building basic infra-
structure, the study found.
Environmental regulations
in those countries tend to be
weaker, and industries lean
on outdated technologies and
dirtier fuels.
In wealthier countries
where overall pollution is
not as rampant, it is still the
poorest communities that
are more often exposed, the
report says.
“What people don’t
realize is that pollution
does damage to economies.
People who are sick or dead
cannot contribute to the
economy. They need to be
looked after,” said Richard
Fuller, head of the global
toxic watchdog Pure Earth
and one of the 47 scientists,
policy makers and public
health experts who contrib-
uted to the 51-page report.
“There is this myth that
finance ministers still live by,
that you have to let industry
pollute or else you won’t
develop, he said. “It just isn’t
true.”
Pentagon faces
demands for details on
deadly attack in Niger
WASHINGTON (AP)
— Members of Congress
demanded
answers
Thursday two weeks after
an ambush in the African
nation of Niger killed four
U.S. soldiers, with one top
lawmaker even threatening
subpoenas. The White
House defended the slow
pace of information, saying
an investigation would
eventually offer clarity
about a tragedy that has
morphed into a political
dispute in the United States.
Among the unresolved
inquiries: Why were the
Americans
apparently
caught by surprise? Why
did it take two additional
days to recover one of
the four bodies after the
shooting stopped? Was the
Islamic State responsible?
The confusion over
what happened in a remote
corner of Niger, where
few Americans travel, has
increasingly dogged Pres-
ident Donald Trump, who
was silent about the deaths
for more than a week.
Asked why, Trump on
Monday turned the topic
into a political tussle by
crediting himself with
doing more to honor the
dead and console their
families than any of his
predecessors. His subse-
quent boast that he reaches
out personally to all
families of the fallen was
contradicted by interviews
with family members,
some of whom had not
heard from Trump at all.
And then the aunt of
an Army sergeant killed
in Niger, who raised the
soldier as her son, said
Wednesday that Trump
had shown “disrespect” to
the soldier’s loved ones as
he telephoned to extend
condolences while they
were driving to the Miami
airport to receive his body.
Sgt. La David Johnson was
one of the four Americans
killed Oct. 4 in southwest
Niger; Trump called the
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families of all four Tuesday.
In an extraordinary
White House briefing, John
Kelly, the former Marine
general who is Trump’s
chief of staff, described
himself as “stunned” and
“brokenhearted” by the
criticism of Trump. He also
invoked his son serving
in Iraq to explain why
American soldiers operate
in dangerous parts of the
world, saying their efforts
to train local forces mean
the U.S. doesn’t have to
undertake large-scale inva-
sions of its own. Kelly’s
other son, Robert, was
killed in combat in Afghan-
istan seven years ago.
The deadly ambush in
Niger occurred as Islamic
militants on motorcycles,
toting
rocket-propelled
grenades
and
heavy
machine guns, seized
on a U.S. convoy and
shattered the windows of
their unarmored trucks. In
addition to those killed, two
Americans were wounded.
No extremist group has
claimed responsibility.
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