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One of the best tools we have against malaria is indoor residual spraying.
The commercial potential of the Internet, the human genome project, and robotics pales in comparison with that of the spinning jenny, the steam engine, and indoor plumbing.
Posts by Chinese celebrities were used to increase awareness of a law banning smoking in indoor public spaces.
In the developed world today, electric stoves and heaters have banished indoor air pollution.
The WHO estimates that while outdoor air pollution in developing-country cities may be ten times higher than in advanced-country cities, average indoor air pollution, caused by burning wood and dung, is a hundred times higher.
Indeed, indoor air pollution kills 3.5 million people each year, making it the world’s deadliest environmental problem.
But pollution from indoor air pollution, which would disappear with electrification, accounts for 16% of outdoor air pollution.
This leads to heavy deforestation and lethal indoor air pollution, which kills 1.3 million people each year.
While a solar panel can provide energy for a light bulb and a charge for a cell phone, it does little to help run stoves to avoid indoor air pollution or fridges to keep vaccines and food fresh, much less power agriculture and industry.
Indoor air pollution would essentially be eliminated for about 150 million more people, with social benefits worth nearly $500 billion.
The same sum could similarly be used to help the four million people who will die from malnutrition this year, the 2.5 million killed by indoor and outdoor air pollution, the two million who will die because they lack micronutrients (iron, zinc, and vitamin A), or the two million whose deaths will be caused by a lack of clean drinking water.
According to the World Health Organization, 1.6 million women and children die each year as a result of indoor smoke inhalation, more than from malaria.
And why no target to reduce the 1.4 million deaths each year from indoor air pollution, largely caused by the use of poor fuels like wood, cardboard, and dung for cooking and heating?
Indoor air pollution is the world’s biggest environmental killer, claiming lives because poor people burn dung and wood for cooking and heating.
In 1990, indoor air pollution caused more than 8% of deaths; in 2016 it was 4.7%.
Each year 1.2 million fewer people die from indoor air pollution, despite an increase in population.
The Hartwell group proposes that we adopt three basic climate-related goals: ensuring secure, affordable energy supplies for everyone (which means developing alternatives to fossil fuels); ensuring that economic development doesn’t wreak environmental havoc (which means not just reducing CO2 emissions, but also cutting indoor pollution from burning biomass, reducing ozone, and protecting tropical forests); and making sure that we are prepared to cope with whatever climate changes may occur, man-made or natural (which means recognizing, at last, the importance of adapting to climate change).
Inhabitants of densely packed urban areas in emerging economies often face both indoor and outdoor pollution, and are less likely to have access to adequate nutrition.
Fifteen of the world’s 20 biggest trade fairs (measured by indoor exhibition space) are held in Germany, and the country tops the list in world commodity exports.
Likewise, overcoming the burden of indoor air pollution will happen only when people can use kerosene, propane, and grid-based electricity.
If the Global Vulnerability Monitor’s recommendation to cut back on fossil fuels were taken seriously, the result would be slower economic growth and continued reliance on dung, cardboard, and other low-grade fuels, thereby prolonging the suffering that results from indoor air pollution.
But, for both indoor and outdoor air pollution, the opposite is more likely true: lower carbon emissions would mean more air pollution deaths.
But indoor air pollution poses a much greater environmental problem.
The most serious environmental problem for humans is indoor air pollution from cooking and heating with dirty fuels like wood and dung – which is the result of poverty.
In 1900, more than 90% of all air pollution deaths resulted from indoor air pollution.
Economic development has meant more outdoor pollution, but also much less indoor pollution.
Yet more people today still die from indoor air pollution than from outdoor pollution.
That is what happened in India, when new cooking stoves were introduced in order to cut indoor pollution, a major cause of health problems among the country’s poor.
We could get slightly higher benefits by focusing on indoor air pollution.
Improved stove intervention to reduce indoor air pollution24.
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