[Stoves] News: India's polluted air killed 1.24 million in 2017: study

[Nikhil Desai]

News item below with excerpts.

Gates Foundation is big on killing. The study is 14 pages by 75+ co-authors
(led by Kalpana Balakrishnan, the main chef of WHO data dish for HAP; full
list farther down) - The impact of air pollution on deaths, disease burden,
and life expectancy across the states of India: the Global Burden of
Disease Study 2017
<https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(18)30261-4>
Lancet
5 December 2018 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30261-4. More on
its LPG claims later.

Some 12-15 million deaths occurred in India last year. Balakrishnan et al.
say 90 deaths out of 100,000 are attributable to air pollution, which is
clearly far less than 1.24 million. Unless they mean 90 deaths out of
100,000 living people, dying at any time from 2017 onwards; that means a
ridiculously small increment since the average life expectancy of the
existing cohort is probably 75 years (assuming that those who could die
sooner have died already, so that the life expectancy at birth today still
means remaining life expectancy of 40 years for people aged 40 years today,
and so on.)

So?  Artificial rains would reduce air pollution, mitigate climate change,
fill groundwater, and save a million lives a year. Who is cooking their
meals, please?

Nikhil

India's polluted air killed 1.24 million in 2017: study
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/india-polluted-air-killed-124-million-2017-study-181206182621344.html>
al Jazeera 6 December 2018

The study said the average life expectancy in India
<https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/india.html>in 2017 would have
been higher by 1.7 years if air quality
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/india-air-quality-plummeted-worst-category-181026072556573.html>
was
at healthy levels.

This wasn't as gloomy as a recent report <https://bit.ly/2UlIlV2> by the
University of Chicago which said prolonged exposure to pollution reduces
the life expectancy of an Indian by over four years.

The new study said India has a higher proportion of global health loss due
to air pollution - at 26.2 percent of the world's total when measured in
deaths and disability - than its 18.1 percent share of the world's
population.

"The findings suggest that the impact of air pollution on deaths and life
expectancy in India might be lower than previously estimated but this
impact is still quite substantial," the study said."
Co-authors of the Lancet paper:
Kalpana Balakrishnan
Sagnik Dey
Tarun Gupta
R S Dhaliwal
Michael Brauer
Aaron J Cohen
Jeffrey D Stanaway
Gufran Beig
Tushar K Joshi
Ashutosh N Aggarwal
Yogesh Sabde
Harsiddha Sadhu
Joseph Frostad
Kate Causey
William Godwin
D K Shukla
G Anil Kumar
Chris M Varghese
Pallavi Muraleedharan
Anurag Agrawal
R M Anjana
Anil Bhansali
Deeksha Bhardwaj
Katrin Burkart
Kelly Cercy
Joy K Chakma
Sourangsu Chowdhury
D J Christopher
Eliza Dutta
Melissa Furtado
Santu Ghosh
Aloke G Ghoshal
Scott D Glenn
Randeep Guleria
Rajeev Gupta
Panniyammakal Jeemon
Rajni Kant
Surya Kant
Tanvir Kaur
Parvaiz A Koul
Varsha Krish
Bhargav Krishna
Samantha L Larson
Kishore Madhipatla
P A Mahesh
Viswanathan Mohan
Satinath Mukhopadhyay
Parul Mutreja
Nitish Naik
Sanjeev Nair
Grant Nguyen
Christopher M Odell
Jeyaraj D Pandian
Dorairaj Prabhakaran
Poornima Prabhakaran
Ambuj Roy
Sundeep Salvi
Sankar Sambandam
Deepika Saraf
Meenakshi Sharma
Aakash Shrivastava
Virendra Singh
Nikhil Tandon
Nihal J Thomas
Anna Torre
Denis Xavier
Geetika Yadav
Sujeet Singh
Chander Shekhar
Theo Vos
Rakhi Dandona
K Srinath Reddy
Stephen S Lim
Christopher J L Murray
S Venkatesh
Lalit Dandona
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