Air pollution linked to seven million deaths globally (BBC)

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By Helen Briggs
BBC News

Seven million people died as a result of air pollution in 2012, the World Health Organization estimates.

Its findings suggest a link between air pollution and heart disease, respiratory problems and cancer.

One in eight global deaths were linked with air pollution, making it "the world's largest single environmental health risk", the WHO said.

Nearly six million of the deaths had been in South East Asia and the WHO's Western Pacific region, it found.

The WHO said about 3.3 million people had died as a result of indoor air pollution and 2.6 million deaths were related to outdoor air pollution, mainly in low- and middle-income countries in those regions.
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1. In other news, Fukushima wiped out Asia, North America, Australia and parts of...

Kenya.

Given the amount of press and attention given to Fukushima, and the lack of interest in the deaths of tens of millions of people every half decade from air pollution, one would think so.

In fact, it's worth considering whether all the coal, oil and gas burned by people carrying on about Fukushima actually killed more people than all of the radiation leaked from the reactor; radiation deaths which are, as of today, precisely equal to zero.