Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Premature Deaths in China
NY Times excerpt
Last month, the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development,
based in Paris, warned that
“urban air pollution is set to become
the top environmental cause of mortality worldwide
by 2050, ahead of dirty water and lack of sanitation.”
It estimated that up to 3.6 million people
could end up dying prematurely from
air pollution each year,