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FoodforThought
LA, United States 1943-1970. London, British 1952-1962. Japan, 1960s-1970s. China, Nowadays. all these countries experienced highly polluted air condition. same thing are all of them have the worst air when their economy grow fast. AND when they become highly developed, they starting to criticize other people in other country who are trying to develop their economy as if these era never exist. The difference is, nowadays internet is tremendously more advanced than the middle of 20th century so people can easily see or hear the picture and news from China.
Criticizing other people while pretending your country had never have the same difficult era, well done.
Better start to find your next target, for people who live in the first world country.
Better start to think about how better you can do with this problem, for people who are live in the third world countries, cause when the day your countries start to fast grow up in economy, you will also need to face up against it.
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Shalom, read this:
Air Pollution Is Still Killing People in the United States, by TIME MAGAZINE:
http://time.com/4836660/air-pollution-health-death-epa/
Air pollution continues to drive premature deaths in the United States with no level of exposure leaving humans unaffected, according to new research.
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found a strong correlation between mortality and exposure to the pollutants ozone and particular matter, both of which contribute to smog. The higher the concentration of the pollutants in the air the higher the chance of an early death, according to the research.
While air pollution levels in the U.S. have declined significantly in recent decades thanks to regulation — including the Clean Air Act — many cities and regions still struggle to meet air quality standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But the new research suggests that even those standards may not be stringent enough: Air pollution contributes to premature mortality even below those levels.
"We think air quality in the United States is good enough to protect our citizens," Joel Schwartz, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health who authored the study, said in a statement. "In fact we need to lower pollution levels even further."
Read More: Why California's Climate Change Fight Is Also About Public Health
The study joins a growing body of research showing the deadly effects of human exposure to air pollution at any level. But while researchers behind many recent studies have relied on relatively small data sets, the new study used data from more than 60 million Medicare beneficiaries between 2000 and 2012.
Air pollution has received the most attention in the developing world, and for good reason. Recent research published in the journal Nature estimated that air pollution leads to more than three million deaths annually. But research has also showed that tens of thousands of people in the U.S. face an early death because of exposure to air pollution.
Read More: Air Pollution Costs Global Economy Trillions Annually, World Bank Says
The Trump Administration has promised to focus its environmental efforts on "clean air and clean water," but has also sought to undo or defund many of the programs that address those issues. At President Donald Trump's direction, the EPA has begun a process to undo rules regulating power plant emissions, which contribute to a variety of health ailments, in addition to climate change. The Trump budget proposal also includes funding cuts for EPA programs across the board. "Despite compelling data, the Trump administration is moving headlong in the opposite direction," scientists wrote in a New England Journal editorial accompanying the study. "We must redouble our commitment to clean air. If such protections lapse, Americans will suffer."
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TAKE THIS SHALOM!!! Utah Suicides Linked to Air Pollution
Suicide may be linked to air pollution, according to new research that finds spikes in completed suicides in the days following peak pollution levels.
The research took place in Utah, part of the United States' western "suicide belt." Suicide is the 10th-leading cause of death in the United States; in Utah, it is the eighth. Though the notion that suicide and air quality could be linked may not seem intuitive, similar studies in South Korea, Taiwan and Canada have also linked the two.
Altogether, the findings suggest that suicide "is a preventable outcome, and air pollution could be a modifiable risk factor," said Amanda Bakian, an epidemiologist at the University of Utah and the leader of the new study. [5 Myths About Suicide, Debunked]
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Suicide's environmental triggers
Suicide is complicated. Unsurprisingly, mental illness plays a huge role — at least 90 percent of people who die by suicide have a diagnosable mental disorder, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). But a mental disorder alone does not necessarily make a person suicidal, nor do all people who envision committing suicide actually do so. Research suggests that short-term factors in a person's life seem to be important, as suicide is often brought on by an immediate personal or mental health crisis in a vulnerable person, according to the AFSP.
Some of these short-term factors may be external. It has long been recognized that deaths by suicide peak in the springtime months, which could be a result of social factors. However, a small but growing body of evidence suggests that physical inflammation might also be to blame. Inflammation occurs when the immune system goes into overdrive, triggering the release of a variety of compounds that act on all of the body's systems. The inflammatory compound quinolinic acid has been directly linked to suicidal thoughts, and research has further connected suicide rates with the level of inflammation-promoting particles in the air. For example, a 2013 study published in the journal BMJ Open found that suicides in Denmark went up with tree pollen levels.
Air pollution can cause inflammation as well. A 2010 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry linked suicide with increases in particulate matter in the air in Korea; 2011 research in the Journal of Affective Disorders made the same link in Taiwan. Another 2010 study, this one in Vancouver, found that wintertime emergency room visits for suicide attempts increased in the days following high air pollution levels.
In Salt Lake County, where Bakian and her colleagues are based, winters are marked by air patterns known as inversions, which often trap air pollution close to the ground. They wondered if pollution might be linked with suicides in Utah.
A tentative link
Working with the Utah Department of Health's Office of the Medical Examiner, Bakian and her team gathered data on all suicides in Salt Lake County between 2000 and 2010, a total of 1,546. They chose to focus only on completed suicides, not suicide attempts, because the demographics and characteristics of people who complete suicide and people who attempt suicide are different. (Men are more likely than women to complete suicide, for example, and people who die by suicide use more lethal means, such as guns, than people who survive an attempt.)
The researchers then compared the timing of these suicides with air pollution levels, including fine and coarse particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) monitors in the county. They found that suicide risk went up two to three days after levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide rose.
"The finer the particulates, the better they are at permeating thoracic airways," Bakian told Live Science. The study is the first to examine the link between nitrogen dioxide and completed suicides.
Surprisingly, the link between the levels of these pollutants and suicide was strongest not in the winter, but in the spring and fall.
"What it makes us think is that air pollution interacts with other spring and fall risk factors for suicide," Bakian said. [Suicide: Red Flags & How to Help]
The link was also strongest in men and among the 25- to 64-year-old age group, as well as among those who died by violent means such as firearms, the researchers reported Feb.10 in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Bakian and her colleagues are interested in researching what might make some subgroups more vulnerable to the effects of air pollution than others. But everyone agrees that more work is needed.
"It is worth highlighting that this is only one study in an area where there is only a small body of research," said André Gagnon, a spokesman for Health Canada, the public health department of the Canadian government, where the Vancouver study was done. "These findings should, therefore, be interpreted cautiously."
Most importantly, Gagnon noted, the research can't establish that the air pollution caused the increase in suicides; it shows only a correlation between the two. In an editorial accompanying the new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, University of Queensland researchers Yuming Guo and Adrian Barnett noted that the findings bolster the small body of research linking suicide and pollution, but that questions remain.
For example, the researchers controlled for the level of sunlight during the study period, which might affect suicide risk, but they did not control for precipitation directly. Rain or snow alone could influence suicidal behavior, and might also wash pollution from the skies, Guo and Barnett said.
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President Trump Announces US Withdrawal From The Paris Climate Accord
It's done. Bannon 1 - 0 Kushner.
President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate pact and that he will seek to renegotiate the international agreement in a way that treats American workers better.
"So we are getting out, but we will start to negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal, and if we can, that’s great. And if we can’t, that’s fine," Trump said Thursday, citing terms that he says benefit China’s economy at the expense of the U.S.
"In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, but begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris accord or really an entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses" and its taxpayers, Trump said.
As Bloomberg reports, Trump’s announcement, delivered to cabinet members, supporters and conservative activists in the White House Rose Garden, spurns pleas from corporate executives, world leaders and even Pope Francis who warned the move imperils a global fight against climate change.
As we noted earlier, we should prepare for the establishment to begin its mourning and fearmongering of the disaster about to befall the world.
Pulling out means the U.S. joins Russia, Iran, North Korea and a string of Third World countries in not putting the agreement into action. Just two countries are not in the deal at all - one of them war-torn Syria, the other Nicaragua.
The Hill notes that many Republicans on Capitol Hill are likely to support pulling out of the Paris deal - 20 leading Senate Republicans, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) asked Trump to do just that last week. Withdrawing from Paris would greatly please conservative groups, which have orchestrated an all-out push in opposition to the pact.
“Without any impact on global temperatures, Paris is the open door for egregious regulation, cronyism, and government spending that would be disastrous for the American economy as it is proving to be for those in Europe,” said Nick Loris, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
"It is time for the U.S. to say ‘au revoir’ to the Paris agreement,” he said.
Trump wants his presidency to be about jobs and his decision to be viewed as an economic win for the United States.
A recent report commissioned by the oil industry-backed American Council for Capital Formation found that the deal would eliminate $3 trillion in GDP and 6.5 million jobs by 2040.
A Heritage Foundation paper last year didn’t go quite as far. It predicted that the agreement would prevent 400,000 jobs and cause a GDP loss of $2.5 trillion.
As Bloomberg notes, although cast as a final decision, the announcement only prolongs uncertainty over the U.S. role in an agreement among almost 200 nations to address global warming. Trump is kicking off a withdrawal process that will take until November 2020 to unfold -- creating an opening for him to reverse course and injecting it as an issue in the next presidential election.
Under the terms of the deal, the earliest the U.S. can formally extricate itself from the accord is Nov. 4, 2020 -- the day after the next presidential election. And Trump would have wide latitude to change his mind up until that point.
Conservative groups quickly applauded Trump’s decision.
“By not succumbing to pressure from special interests and cosmopolitan elites, the president demonstrated he is truly committed to putting America’s economy first,” Michael Needham, the chief executive officer of Heritage Action, said in a statement.
Environmentalists blasted the decision, saying it would turn the U.S. into an international pariah on climate change, even though it would not halt a global clean-energy revolution.
"The world has already resolved to act on climate, the renewable-energy industry is growing exponentially, and people all over the globe are becoming part of the clean energy future," said Greenpeace USA Executive Director Annie Leonard. "Progress will continue with or without Donald Trump, but he is making it as painful as possible for people around the world."
Finally, we notes that U.S. climate efforts won’t completely cease just because Trump is walking away from Paris. States including California, New York and Massachusetts continue to move forward with aggressive policies to cut carbon emissions.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-01/watch-live-president-trump-unveils-his-decision-paris-climate-accord
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REPORT BY AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
'State of the Air 2017' – Despite Progress, 4 in 10 Americans at Risk from Air Pollution
http://www.lung.org/about-us/media/top-stories/state-of-the-air-2017.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
(April 19, 2017)
The American Lung Association's 2017 "State of the Air" report finds that 4 in 10 Americans live in counties with unhealthful levels of air pollution, putting them at risk for premature death and other serious health effects like lung cancer, asthma attacks cardiovascular damage and developmental and reproductive harm. This 18th annual national air quality report found that, thanks to the success of the Clean Air Act, the United States has experienced continued improvements in both ozone pollution and year-round particle pollution. However, increased spikes in particle pollution have offset some of those gains, and further progress may be made more difficult by warmer temperatures related to climate change.
Each year, the "State of the Air" report provides a "report card" on air pollution all across the nation. Reviewing data collected from air quality monitors from 2013 to 2015, the report focuses on the two most common and harmful types of air pollution – ozone (smog) and particle pollution (soot). "State of the Air" tells how much of each type of pollution is in the air where you live and breathe. Knowing the air quality where you live, or travel, is important because both ozone and particle pollution can harm your health, and even shorten lives.
Want to see how your community ranks, as well as the lists of most-polluted and least-polluted U.S. cities? Visit "State of the Air" and find out.
Those at greatest risk to the health effects of air pollution include infants, children, older adults, anyone living with lung diseases such as asthma and COPD, and people with heart disease or diabetes. Those also at risk include anyone who works or exercises outdoors and people with low incomes who might have increased exposure to air pollution sources. However, dangerous levels of air pollution can harm everyone, even healthy adults. High levels of pollution can cause wheezing and shortness of breath and can trigger severe asthma attacks, heart attacks and strokes. Recently, the World Health Organization concluded that particle pollution can cause lung cancer, the leading cancer killer in America.
While this year's report found that 4 in 10 Americans live in counties that have unhealthful levels of either ozone or particle pollution, this is actually a substantial improvement. One-quarter fewer people now live where the air quality hit unhealthy levels compared to the 2016 report, which covered data from 2012-2014. The greatest improvements come from continued progress in reducing pollution from power plants and transportation sources, which contributes to high ozone days and year-round particle pollution. In fact, some cities got their best grades yet. This report shows the sustained success of the Clean Air Act, continuing to clean up pollution in much of the nation.
The report also identified areas of growing concern, particularly a continued increase in dangerous spikes in particle pollution. In fact, many cities experienced their highest number of spikes since monitoring for this pollutant began, with 43 million people living in counties that experienced too many days when particle pollution peaked at unhealthy levels. Increased heat, changes in climate patterns, drought and wildfires—all related to climate change—contributed to the extraordinarily high number of days with unhealthy particulate matter. As climate change continues, cleaning up these pollutants will become ever more challenging.
Our nation's leaders need to step up to protect the health of all Americans. We urge President Trump, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and members of Congress to fully fund, implement and enforce the Clean Air Act for all pollutants – including those that drive climate change and make it harder to achieve healthy air for all.
Everyone has the right to breathe healthy air, and the American Lung Association continues to fight for safeguards that ensure cleaner, healthier air for all Americans.
You can help! Join us in the effort to make sure every breath you take is a healthy one.N LUNG ASSOCIATION:
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