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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">So…right here in the introduction we see the conflation of premature deaths and causes of death:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">“…</span>even in high-income European cities, air pollution is knocking 2–24 months off people’s lives.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">So is air pollution is a cause of death or not? “Killing people” means causing their deaths, right?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The advantage to the shriekers of such doom is they can easily take legitimate scientific studies about contributors to the shortening of lives and turn them into catastrophic mass-murdering
targets of attention, ire and of course don’t forget, finance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">So I bothered to interview couple of people about why this style of alarm continues when it is do obviously contrived. Several interesting things emerged. One is that stove programmes
have difficulty getting funded and we need a highly visible claim to money based on something scary, present, and clear. The claims has to be that if given the money, the bogeyman can be made to run away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Another is that the current mania about “air pollution kills x-million people per year” is based on a number of things said by the WHO, which are based on other claims emerging from
a very small group of people, even one or two, that for all I can see, are rooted in ideology preceding the supporting ‘science’.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We have already discussed the fact that the PM2.5 “equitoxicity” ruling of the EPA’s “…because we don’t know they are not” is about as shabby as it gets when it comes to medical
science. The claims below are of course based on that ruling. So it transpires that one of the leaders in this death-by-air movement was a PhD student of alarmist John Holdren, who was in turn a PhD student of that arch-alarmist John Ehrlich – author of the
most catastrophic and failed book of predictions in the modern era: “The Population Bomb”. No act is too horrific to commit if the cause of noble enough.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">On reflection, modern catastrophists have nothing on the granddaddy of environmental eschatology:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">“The 1968 doomsday <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Population-Bomb-Paul-R-Ehrlich/dp/1568495870">bestseller </a>generated hysteria over the future of the world and the Earth’s waning
ability to sustain human life, as Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich offered a series of alarming predictions that turned out to be spectacularly wrong, creating the enduring myth of unsustainable population growth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">“Ehrlich prophesied that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s (and that 65 million of them would be Americans), that already-overpopulated India was doomed, and
that most probably “England will not exist in the year 2000.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">“In conclusion, Ehrlich warned that ‘sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come,’ meaning ‘an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity.’”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">From </span>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#117BB8"><a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/02/the-population-bomb-that-bombed-turns-50/">The ‘Population Bomb’ (that bombed) Turns 50 this year</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#117BB8"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Phew! It seems that 1983 passed without much fanfare about the passing of humanity. We have survived three times longer than the doom-saying predictions of Mr We-are-all-going-to-die!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What are we going to do about this? The first thing to overthrow is the equitoxicity ruling. We cannot have a sensible conversation about air pollution until we segregate what is
really harmful from what is harmful from what is benign from what may be beneficial.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">For a start, it would helpful if we could differentiate between fly-ash and PM2.5 from incomplete combustion. Fly-ash is not very toxic while condensed, evaporated volatiles from
stoves can have strong medical effects. That way we can at least start to talk about removing specific contributors to specific consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The ‘major players’ in the stove circus are apparently not willing to tackle this issue head on. So, where do we the practitioners begin?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Crispin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"> Stoves <stoves-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Anderson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 2-May-18 20:37<br>
<b>To:</b> Stoves and biofuels network <Stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Nikhil Desai <ndesai@alum.mit.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Stoves] Air pollution kills<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Stovers,<br>
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I just thought you might find this interesting. '<br>
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This came from the issue on <span class="header-text">Wednesday 2 May 2018 of:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h2><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnature.us17.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d%26id%3Dfed70f971c%26e%3D562108ab5a&data=02%7C01%7C%7C4acd3bdd986f4c43486508d5b0f5d6f9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636609492275501130&sdata=P7HK9DUjp%2BoJ4PGjzz17hyUY2a5I6uZ9VRx4T2CNYXU%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Air
pollution kills 7 million people a year</a><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p>About <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnature.us17.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d%26id%3De7570b0287%26e%3D562108ab5a&data=02%7C01%7C%7C4acd3bdd986f4c43486508d5b0f5d6f9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636609492275501130&sdata=%2Fvlra5I50hGSir%2Bat%2BgCdqNJAt8nCRm72lAAmFS4NVA%3D&reserved=0">
90% of the world’s population is exposed to dangerously high levels of air pollution</a>, says the World Health Organization. Toxic air leads to the early death of an estimated 7 million people every year, including an estimated 3.8 million deaths from indoor
cooking with polluting fuels. More than 90% of air pollution-related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, but even in high-income European cities, air pollution is knocking 2–24 months off people’s lives.
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Times</a> | 4 min read</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">40% of the world population cook with solid fuels. So 60% do not. Of that 60%, 50% (50% of 60% is 83%) ALSO are exposed by dangerously high levels of air pollution.
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Basically, nobody is safe.<br>
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So why push for LPG for the poorest 40% when even that is not going to do much good for them???? Or is that mainly a promotion effort by LPG business?
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So it seems like there is no chance of pleasing the WHO. 7 million deaths per year from air pollution.
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I will keep pushing for cleaner cookstoves, espacially the micro-gasifier TLUD type.
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Paul<br>
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<pre>Doc / Dr TLUD / Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Email: <a href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu">psanders@ilstu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072<o:p></o:p></pre>
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