Blog # 9

            Approximately forty percent of the global population is dying prematurely due to outdoor population in China.  China has had one point two billion premature deaths due to outdoor pollution.  The data for this analysis was found and presented from the Lancet which is a British medical journal.  In 2010 researchers considered pollution to be the fourth risk factor for death while after was high blood pressure, smoking, and dietary dangers.  Air pollution was marked seventh on the global list of risk factors of death while outdoor air pollution was marked as the sixth most frequent cause of death in South Asia.  In the year 2010 air pollution was the cause of death for three 3.2 people in China so it is clear that air pollution is having a significant impact on China’s population.  Similar to China, India has had 620,000 untimely deaths that were caused by outdoor air pollution.  Although this number isn’t as large as China but it is still enough when referring to valuable human lives.  India and China are both cities that are heavily packed with people and outdoor air pollution is one issue that they struggle with.  There was a study done with the World Bank and Chinese State Environmental Protection Administration and they found that in China three hundred and fifty to four hundred thousand people die early every year.  China has realized that outdoor air pollution has become a huge threat to their population.  Some steps have been made to address this problem and one example is to present new fuel standards.  This isn’t a solid answer to their problem because power and oil companies that are owned by the state tend to not follow protocol of environmental policies to reduce costs.  This is definitely a global issue because outdoor air pollution has been the cause of such a large number of deaths in South Asia and is still harming people now.  Because of the large number of deaths this is having a substantial impact on the population in South Asia.  I remember a few discussions we had in class about the population in China and how their population has a gap because they already have a one child policy.  This is causing different changes to occur within their population which in turn is resulting in a global issue. 

Antiqua Thurston 4/3/13 8:32

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/world/asia/air-pollution-linked-to-1-2-million-deaths-in-china.html