On: Global pollution kills 9M a year, according to new study

[sien]

Certainly there isn't any way to link it with the certainty. But the number of dead from Air pollution being at least 5M is pretty widely accepted.

The wikipedia page has a figure of 5M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution

The Copenhagen Consensus puts the figure at 7M

http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/post-2015-consensus/air-p...

Bjorn Lomborg runs the Copenhagen Consensus centre. Lomborg is hated by many environmentalists because he says that the return on spending on Global Warming is not very good, He's not a far left environmentalist.

[curiousgeorgio → sien]

The Copenhagen Consensus link you provided is specifically referring to indoor air pollution from cooking and heating homes with open fires.

I haven't explored the Lancet Commission's study enough to know how much they ascribe to indoor vs outdoor air pollution, but in my opinion, using the indoor figure in the same context as Global Warming or any kind of global pollution problem is extremely deceptive. You might as well just call all smoking-related deaths "caused by air pollution" because cigarettes were polluting the smoker's own air supply.

[sien → curiousgeorgio]

Good spot. The Copenhagen Consensus is referring to indoor pollution there.

The wikipedia page address both indoor and outdoor pollution. Presumably this new figure has both indoor and outdoor pollution.

Burning things for fuel is what causes a lot of air pollution, both indoor and outdoor.

The only reason I mentioned global warming is because Lomborg and the Copenhagen Consensus centre are far from most environmentalists on these issues.