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Comment · 15 years ago

So your argument is that as long as the asset or land is reusable then it does not matter if people died ?

So if you were driving a buick roadmaster and got killed in the car. the fact that they could hose of the dash and reuse the car is what matters ?

Or that in World War 2, when the tank crew of a Sherman tank was killed they could refurb it and send out a new crew, does that mean it is somehow better for the first crew ?

Comment · 15 years ago

7 billion tons per year of coal is mined. 60,000 tons of Uranium is mined (a few tens of millions of tons of ore).

Comment · 15 years ago

The 4000 people have not started dieing yet. Otherwise the two years of lifespan reduction from air pollution

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-DW9Uoz93Cvo/TXZo0dHQDNI/A...

http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHe...

Would be applied to the shorten lifespans of billions of people.

Air pollution increases the cost of public health by about 30%. The effect is so widespread that people do not know it because it is constant and pervasive

Comment · 15 years ago

Global health risk studies (by the world Health Organization) compiled many other health impact studies. It was easiest for them to analyze and correlate particulate matter (10 micron and 2.5 micron)

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/global-health-risks.html

http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHe...

In the year 2004, outdoor air pollution in urban areas was responsible for almost 1.2 million deaths (2% of all deaths) and 0.6% of the global burden of disease

Exposure to particulate matter, including metals, has been linked to a range of adverse health outcomes, including modest transient changes in the respiratory tract and impaired pulmonary function, increased risk of symptoms requiring emergency room or hospital treatment, and increased risk of death from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases or lung cancer. Particulate matter is estimated to cause about 8% of deaths from lung cancer, 5% of deaths from cardiopulmonary disease and about 3% of deaths from respiratory infections.

The impact of outdoor air pollution on the burden of disease in the world’s cities is large, but an assessment of sources of uncertainty, including the fact that only mortality impacts of exposure to PM were estimated, suggests that the impact is actually underestimated.

The coal pollution deaths are increased heart attacks and lung disease and more hospitalization from asthma and other illnesses.