[Stoves] News: New Index finds air pollution reduces global life expectancy by nearly 2 years, making it the single greatest threat to human health

lh cheng lhkind at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 17:19:36 CST 2018


thank you Nilhil for bringing news. When I lived in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu
province of China, I suffered from air pollution daily, stinking air, but
not from ordinary people, but from a paper factory (Sopo Chemistry) nearby.
tens of thousands of people suffered the same way. that factory got the gvt
silenced perfectly. for decades, and still now. when some people got sick,
gvt or media will blame ordinary people for burning sticks or coals for
cooking, this drama is not funny.

Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com> 于2018年12月10日周一 下午11:15写道:

> New Index finds air pollution reduces global life expectancy by nearly 2
> years, making it the single greatest threat to human health
> <https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/news/new-index-finds-air-pollution-reduces-global-life-expectancy-by-nearly-2-years-making-it-the-single-greatest-threat-to-human-health/> 19
> November 2018
>
> Excerpts below. I happen to have picked apart Greenstone's work in India
> and China a few years ago. I am incredulous that he gets away with murder.
> He does not betray the honesty that, say, Kirk Smith does in his journal
> papers (rather admiringly).
>
> Here Greenstone has the audacity to attribute all air pollution to fossil
> fuels. With economists like these - he is an economist, of all things - who
> can believe any economists? :-)
>
> Nikhil
>
>
>
> "Loss of life expectancy is highest in Asia, exceeding 6 years in many
> parts of India and China; some residents of the United States still lose up
> to a year of life from pollution.
>
> Fossil fuel-driven particulate air pollution cuts global average life
> expectancy by 1.8 years per person, according to a new pollution index and
> accompanying report produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the
> University of Chicago (EPIC). The Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) establishes
> particulate pollution as the single greatest threat to human health
> globally, with its effect on life expectancy exceeding that of devastating
> communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, behavioral killers
> like cigarette smoking, and even war. Critically, the AQLI reports these
> results in tangible terms that are relatable for most people.
>
> “Around the world today, people are breathing air that represents a
> serious risk to their health. But the way this risk is communicated is very
> often opaque and confusing, translating air pollution concentrations into
> colors, like red, brown, orange, and green. What those colors mean for
> people’s wellbeing has always been unclear,” says Michael Greenstone, the
> Milton Friedman Professor in Economics and director of the Energy Policy
> Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).
>
> Greenstone also noted, “My colleagues and I developed the AQLI, where the
> ‘L’ stands for ‘life,’ to address these shortcomings. It takes particulate
> air pollution concentrations and converts them into perhaps the most
> important metric that exists—life expectancy.”
>
>
>
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