In North America, air pollution wipes 1.4 years off people's lives on average, which could mostly be avoided if we stopped burning fossil fuels.
. They applied this model to mortality rates that could be attributed to air pollution, then compared them to other factors that shorten people's lives. They were also able to look at the effects of different air pollution sources, from the burning of fossil fuels to natural wildfires, to work out how they impact mortality rates.
In North America, air pollution on average shortened people's lives by 1.4 years, most of which could be prevented by fossil fuels being phased out. The researchers say air pollution can be seen as a pandemic because of the way it is spreading, along with its associated impacts on health.they were surprised at their findings."We had not expected that air pollution mortality is so dominant compared to other, more accepted health risk factors, including smoking," he said.
"In North America, about 85 percent of the avoidable air pollution is due to fossil fuel use," Lelieveld said."Of course, any reduction would help, but a phase-out would be needed to avoid this 85 percent."Los Angeles Ranked Highest in U.S. for Deaths Linked to Air PollutionThe team also looked at the effects of air pollution on death rates using six categories relating to diseases.
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