India Touch Top Spot In Deaths Due To Pollution
Across the world, it was the total count of deaths 9 million due to pollution that year, the death seanerio is three time more than the deaths due to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
In 2015, nine million deaths due to pollution across the globe, the death is three times more than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined as per scientists report on Thursday, calling for governments in poor countries to act. India's pollution death scenario worst, 2.5 million people dying early because of pollution, followed China with 1.8 million deaths, according to The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a two-year initiative seeking to highlight the issue. As per death scenario, one in six of worldwide are caused by pollution, and the vast majority occur in developing countries, the report in The Lancet medical journal said.
One of the authors and an adviser to environmental group Pure Earth Karti Sandilya said “”With globalisation, mining and manufacturing shifted to poorer countries, where environmental regulations and enforcement can be lax,".
"People in poorer countries - like construction workers in New Delhi - are more exposed to air pollution and less able to protect themselves from exposure, as they walk, bike or ride the bus to workplaces that may also be polluted."
He told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an email “Many people in developed countries commute to air-conditioned offices in air-conditioned cars”
Exposure to high levels of air pollution, especially over many years, can affect human respiratory and inflammatory systems, and can lead to heart disease, stoke and lung cancer.
Billions of people in developing countries cook foods on open fires with wood or coal, exposing people mainly women and childrens across the world to dangerous fumes.