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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/30/2017 5:40 AM, Philip Lloyd
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">An
amusing addition to the “air pollution shortens lives”
question:</span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a
href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/28/does-air-pollution-really-shorten-life-spans/">https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/28/does-air-pollution-really-shorten-life-spans/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Philip
Lloyd</span></p>
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Quite a long article with graphs and data. "Amusing" is maybe not
the right descriptor. But certainly interesting.<br>
<br>
To get to the point, and letting the article's author make it
clearly, here are the concluding words.: The last line is the
"amusing" one.<br>
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<p>So why the discrepancy between claims that PM2.5 (or air
pollution more generally) reduces life expectancy, and the
reality that life expectancy has actually increased, and
continues to increase in some of the most polluted cities of the
world despite increases in PM2.5?</p>
<p>A couple of reasons, which are not mutually exclusive, come to
mind:</p>
<ul>
<li>The cumulative direct and indirect effects of economic
development (and fossil fuel use) on life expectancy not only
outweigh the effects of PM2.5, they also enable populations to
reduce PM2.5, once more significant health threats are
reduced.<a
href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/Users/Anthony/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/L168EUMU/#_ftn8_4820"
name="_ftnref8_4820">[8]</a></li>
<li>Life expectancy is based on data on real births and real
deaths, whereas the mortality effects of PM2.5 are based on
“statistical” deaths or, to use a term currently in vogue,
“fake” deaths.<a
href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/Users/Anthony/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/L168EUMU/#_ftn9_4820"
name="_ftnref9_4820">[9]</a> As Steve Milloy is fond of
asking, “Where are the bodies?”<a
href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/Users/Anthony/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/L168EUMU/#_ftn10_4820"
name="_ftnref10_4820">[10]</a></li>
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<p>In today’s world, claims of air pollution shortening life
expectancy are fake news premised on fake deaths.</p>
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Paul<br>
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amusing addition to the “air pollution shortens lives”
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