7 Million Killed by Pollution Every Year by Bob Cummins

     Every year, about 7 million people are killed by pollution worldwide.  More than half of these are caused by  deadly indoor fumes from furnaces.  There were about 4.3 million furnace fume deaths in 2012.  The World Health Organization (WHO) says that one in eight deaths is caused by air pollution.  Frank Kelly, the director of the environmental research group at King's College London said, "We all have to breathe, which makes pollution very hard to avoid."   These new estimates were more than double previous estimates.  3.7 million of the deaths in 2012 were from outdoor pollution.  90% of these deaths were from developing countries.  Women, according to WHO, are more susceptible to indoor air pollution than men, since they are at home more of the time along with children, breathing in fumes of leaky furnaces.  Last year, WHO labeled air pollution as a carcinogen, causing bladder and lung cancer.  In some places, people have been waring face masks because of air pollution for a while.  "The real problem is that wearing masks sends out the message we can live without polluted air."  Kelly goes on to say that we need to change our way of life if we are to reduce pollution.

     Well... pollution is a problem.  It seems as though this has gotten out of hand.  There are simple solutions like moving factories away from the cities to reduce pollution.  When something gets to the point where it's killing 7 million people a year, it's a problem.  We also need to reduce the use of coal burning furnaces.  That's a huge culprit of pollution.  This article really shows how people need to reduce emissions of pollutants

I had no idea that this was so out of hand!

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pollution-kills-7-million-people-every-000547531.html;_ylt=A0SO8xjE7TBTJmIAk7NXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0NDZnaDI2BHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDQwMl8x