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In 2012, the China Medical Association warned that air pollution could become the country’s biggest health threat, owing to rising rates of lung cancer and cardiovascular disease – particularly in the country’s megacities.
About 1.2 million Chinese die prematurely each year because of outdoor air pollution.
Measurements from Beijing show that upwards of 16% of the air pollution comes from coal.
So, not surprisingly, most other developing countries would gratefully seize the opportunity to replicate China’s growth pattern – including its pollution.
Of course, the Chinese could do more to cut 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.
True, electricity from coal will cause extra air pollution.
But pollution from indoor air pollution, which would disappear with electrification, accounts for 16% of outdoor air pollution.
Even assuming (unrealistically) that coal produces all of the world’s air pollution, we could generate 250 kWh/year with coal for every one of the three billion energy-poor people and still end up with lower air pollution.
Moreover, it is easy and fairly cheap to cut coal pollution 90% or more with scrubbers.
The final surprise was that the key economic challenges facing Foshan today – such as local-government debt, credit access for small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), and pollution – are identical to those facing China as a whole.
On pollution, the obvious prescription is for Foshan to move to cleaner industries.
First, all polluters must sit at the negotiating table and be forced or induced to participate in reducing pollution.
The challenge is to acknowledge the costs (as we are now doing with pollution) and assign them to people who can – and can be compelled to – pay for them.
Renewables cut air pollution, which is costing the global economy billions of dollars a year in health-care costs alone.
Educational opportunities have multiplied, air and water pollution have plummeted, and life expectancy has increased almost to West European levels across the region.
These countries will have less air pollution, improved health and wellbeing, and thriving economies.
A misguided focus on GDP has neglected the costs of natural-resource depletion, pollution and other externalities, and the asymmetrical distribution of growth in predetermined economic sectors, all of which have long been associated with emerging economies like Egypt.
The Myth of a Fossil Fuel Phase-OutBRUSSELS – How the world uses energy is a hot topic for a warming planet, and fears of pollution and resource strain have produced a virtual arms race of energy-efficiency strategies.
Today’s energy “crisis” stems not from shortages, but from anxiety over pollution.
As a result, more than 600,000 people die each year from household air pollution.
The number of premature deaths due to air pollution is rising.
A 2013 World Bank study estimated that welfare costs and lost labor income due to air pollution amounted to nearly 8.5% of India’s GDP.
Labor losses (in terms of number of man days, for example) due to air pollution totaled more than $55 billion in 2013, and premature deaths are estimated to have cost the country an estimated $505 billion, or roughly 7.6% of GDP.
It needs to create state and national action plans for clean air; set tough new targets for thermal power plant emissions, factory chimneys, and automobile exhausts; and establish a proper air pollution monitoring system.
A successful transition to the next phase of wealth creation – driven by the services sector and knowledge-based industries – will require a more market-oriented approach, in which the state cedes some control over the economy and focuses instead on protecting property rights, administering welfare services, reducing pollution, and eliminating corruption.
It is no accident that some of the worst pollution in the world occurred in the ex-Soviet bloc countries where protests were forbidden.
Not confined to Asia, outdoor particulate pollution claims over 3.1 million lives worldwide every year, five times the number of deaths from malaria and slightly less than double the current AIDS death rate.
But the more troubling risks from air pollution arise from chronic exposure.
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