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From Metro Manila Air Pollution Watch | April 15, 2013
Yes it does. The connection may be startling if not outright surprising.
So avoid air pollution and live to be healthier and stronger
Showing posts with label air pollution kills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label air pollution kills. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Please follow this latest blog on air pollution in Metro Manila - let us not get sick from air pollution
Live healthy and long
Please find the latest site on Metro Manila air pollution watch.
COPD caused by air pollution is now the 4th cause of mortality in the PHL. Despite the passage of CAC (Clean Air Act of 1999) air pollution continues to be unabated) . Worldwide, air pollutants killed 6 million worldwide, according to WHO. It used to be only 2 million in 2007. Majority of the victims are from China, with more than half of them caused by internal pollution (pollution from wood burning stoves in the house)
The more lethal air pollutants are the PM2.5, those pollutants we cant see - they are nano particles 30x smaller than human hair.
The PHL agencies, as led by its senior manager has followed the mandate of the law to monitor only the much larger particulates: PM 10
Please find the latest site on Metro Manila air pollution watch.
COPD caused by air pollution is now the 4th cause of mortality in the PHL. Despite the passage of CAC (Clean Air Act of 1999) air pollution continues to be unabated) . Worldwide, air pollutants killed 6 million worldwide, according to WHO. It used to be only 2 million in 2007. Majority of the victims are from China, with more than half of them caused by internal pollution (pollution from wood burning stoves in the house)
The more lethal air pollutants are the PM2.5, those pollutants we cant see - they are nano particles 30x smaller than human hair.
The PHL agencies, as led by its senior manager has followed the mandate of the law to monitor only the much larger particulates: PM 10
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Air Pollution a deadly assassin?
Live healthy and long
From Air Pollution Kills blog | April 10 2013
Everybody is worried about the new strain of bird flu the H7N9 recently discovered in China and which has been traced to be the cause of as many as 18 deaths.
But this pale in comparison to the 1,200,000 deaths from air pollution in China last year, according to WHO Department of Health and Environment. Half of this comes from indoor pollution that comes from indoor cooking with wood and kerosene.
Total death toll from air pollution stands at 6 million in 2012, more than deaths from AIDS and malaria combined; it was mere 2 million in 2007 - a 3 fold increase. Deaths from air pollution is more than deaths from the scourge of AIDS (1,700,000) and Malaria (660,000) combined, according to WHO! Wow and we are very much alarmed about dengue, AIDS, and bird flu. We are not aware that pestilence is right at the horizon every hour and minute, here and now!
In UK, there were 40,000 cases of cardiac death that came from PM 2.5 air pollution (at only 11 to 14 level - safe level is 10!)
It is time to be worried; what you can do:
l. Help campaign vs smoke belching;
2. Avoid going to MM where there is the highest concentration of smoke belchers and polluting vehicles. If you live in MM, relocate
3. Support programs for renewable energy and avoidance of fossil fuels.
4. Know and monitor PM 2.5 level in MM (is this being monitored closely?)
We cant afford to be nonchalant nor be carefree about this growing menace and spread of this deadly assassin. That is why I started the airpollutionkills blog and gave it a dramatic name, to help people be aware of adverse effect and growing menace of air pollution. Nothing seems to be done seriously against it. If there is, it is too little.
I have posted many pictures of air pollution in this blog before, but I guess it is not read or seen at all; it they were, no one paid attention
From Air Pollution Kills blog | April 10 2013
Everybody is worried about the new strain of bird flu the H7N9 recently discovered in China and which has been traced to be the cause of as many as 18 deaths.
But this pale in comparison to the 1,200,000 deaths from air pollution in China last year, according to WHO Department of Health and Environment. Half of this comes from indoor pollution that comes from indoor cooking with wood and kerosene.
Total death toll from air pollution stands at 6 million in 2012, more than deaths from AIDS and malaria combined; it was mere 2 million in 2007 - a 3 fold increase. Deaths from air pollution is more than deaths from the scourge of AIDS (1,700,000) and Malaria (660,000) combined, according to WHO! Wow and we are very much alarmed about dengue, AIDS, and bird flu. We are not aware that pestilence is right at the horizon every hour and minute, here and now!
In UK, there were 40,000 cases of cardiac death that came from PM 2.5 air pollution (at only 11 to 14 level - safe level is 10!)
It is time to be worried; what you can do:
l. Help campaign vs smoke belching;
2. Avoid going to MM where there is the highest concentration of smoke belchers and polluting vehicles. If you live in MM, relocate
3. Support programs for renewable energy and avoidance of fossil fuels.
4. Know and monitor PM 2.5 level in MM (is this being monitored closely?)
We cant afford to be nonchalant nor be carefree about this growing menace and spread of this deadly assassin. That is why I started the airpollutionkills blog and gave it a dramatic name, to help people be aware of adverse effect and growing menace of air pollution. Nothing seems to be done seriously against it. If there is, it is too little.
I have posted many pictures of air pollution in this blog before, but I guess it is not read or seen at all; it they were, no one paid attention
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