Coal’s True Cost: 100,000+ Deaths A Year In India

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Coal’s True Cost: 100,000+ Deaths A Year In India

A report issued yesterday from Conservation Action Trust and Greenpeace India outlines the health cost of coal. Via ClimateWire:


As many as 115,000 people die in India each year from coal-fired power plant pollution, costing the country about $4.6 billion, according to a groundbreaking new study released today.

This report, by the Mumbai-based Conservation Action Trust, is the first full study of “the link between fine particle pollution and health problems in India, where coal is the fuel of choice and energy demands are skyrocketing.”


The findings are stunning. In addition to more than 100,000 premature deaths, it links millions of cases of asthma and respiratory ailments to coal exposure. It counts 10,000 children under the age of 5 as fatal victims last year alone.

“I didn’t expect the mortality figures per year to be so high,” said Debi Goenka, executive trustee of the Conservation Action Trust.

115,000 people die earlier than they should because of coal pollution — 10,000 children.

Millions of cases of breathing problems from fossil fuel addiction.


Coal's True Cost: 100,000+ Deaths A Year In India | ThinkProgress

Solar, wind, nuclear, hydro = none. See who is more pro-human?
 
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Coal’s True Cost: 100,000+ Deaths A Year In India

A report issued yesterday from Conservation Action Trust and Greenpeace India outlines the health cost of coal. Via ClimateWire:


As many as 115,000 people die in India each year from coal-fired power plant pollution, costing the country about $4.6 billion, according to a groundbreaking new study released today.

This report, by the Mumbai-based Conservation Action Trust, is the first full study of “the link between fine particle pollution and health problems in India, where coal is the fuel of choice and energy demands are skyrocketing.”


The findings are stunning. In addition to more than 100,000 premature deaths, it links millions of cases of asthma and respiratory ailments to coal exposure. It counts 10,000 children under the age of 5 as fatal victims last year alone.

“I didn’t expect the mortality figures per year to be so high,” said Debi Goenka, executive trustee of the Conservation Action Trust.

115,000 people die earlier than they should because of coal pollution — 10,000 children.

Millions of cases of breathing problems from fossil fuel addiction.


Coal's True Cost: 100,000+ Deaths A Year In India | ThinkProgress

Solar, wind, nuclear, hydro = none. See who is more pro-human?

None from nuclear?

List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Looks like you're wrong.

Furthermore, comparing the US's and India's coal emissions is utterly dishonest. India's emissions standards are WORSE than China's:

Indian Coal Plant Standards are Four to 20 Times Deadlier Than China's : Compass
It turns out the reason is somewhat obvious and perhaps even more shocking: Indian standards are anywhere between four and twenty times worse than those in China.

That's right, China - home to the "airpocalypse" and 1.2 million deaths from air pollution - has stronger coal plant pollution standards than India.

But just how bad are India's standards? Glad you asked, because you'd be shocked to know they are quite literally off the charts (Check out the comparison below). That's because India doesn't even have standards for sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides - both of which lead to deadly Particulate Matter (PM) 2.5 pollution...​

You and your fear-mongering, emotional nonsense are dismissed.
 
Coal’s True Cost: 100,000+ Deaths A Year In India

A report issued yesterday from Conservation Action Trust and Greenpeace India outlines the health cost of coal. Via ClimateWire:


As many as 115,000 people die in India each year from coal-fired power plant pollution, costing the country about $4.6 billion, according to a groundbreaking new study released today.

This report, by the Mumbai-based Conservation Action Trust, is the first full study of “the link between fine particle pollution and health problems in India, where coal is the fuel of choice and energy demands are skyrocketing.”


The findings are stunning. In addition to more than 100,000 premature deaths, it links millions of cases of asthma and respiratory ailments to coal exposure. It counts 10,000 children under the age of 5 as fatal victims last year alone.

“I didn’t expect the mortality figures per year to be so high,” said Debi Goenka, executive trustee of the Conservation Action Trust.

115,000 people die earlier than they should because of coal pollution — 10,000 children.

Millions of cases of breathing problems from fossil fuel addiction.


Coal's True Cost: 100,000+ Deaths A Year In India | ThinkProgress

Solar, wind, nuclear, hydro = none. See who is more pro-human?

Coal’s True Cost

They must see a larger benefit.
You should tell them to stop, let me know what they say.
 
Matthew/Jake supports Obama's drive to kill coal and million of people in the process. Why should people hate heat in the winter or AC in the summer? It's melting the polar ice caps!
 
Using a far left blog lie site for your source is not a good way to promote your agenda.
Judging from what the far leftists here use as sources, they seem to believe believe it does.

And they use other sources that go directly to peer reviewed papers in science.

you just don't like it.
 
Judging from what the far leftists here use as sources, they seem to believe believe it does.

And they use other sources that go directly to peer reviewed papers in science.

you just don't like it.

Oh my the far left propaganda continues.

Coal-Fired Power in India May Cause More Than 100,000 Premature Deaths Annually: Scientific American

This is the source they use. Do you even like science?
 
And they use other sources that go directly to peer reviewed papers in science.

you just don't like it.

Oh my the far left propaganda continues.

Coal-Fired Power in India May Cause More Than 100,000 Premature Deaths Annually: Scientific American

This is the source they use. Do you even like science?

Obviously you hate since every time you use a hack piece to support your position.

Yes that word MAY equals to the far left AGW church going Obama drones that it IS.

If you want to argue just to argue own up to it other wise you just need to accept that 99.9% of the time you are wrong.
 
Oh my the far left propaganda continues.

Coal-Fired Power in India May Cause More Than 100,000 Premature Deaths Annually: Scientific American

This is the source they use. Do you even like science?

Obviously you hate since every time you use a hack piece to support your position.

Yes that word MAY equals to the far left AGW church going Obama drones that it IS.

If you want to argue just to argue own up to it other wise you just need to accept that 99.9% of the time you are wrong.

So you think a major scientific website is just a left wing mouth piece? You conservatives are anti-science. That is a fact.
 

Obviously you hate since every time you use a hack piece to support your position.

Yes that word MAY equals to the far left AGW church going Obama drones that it IS.

If you want to argue just to argue own up to it other wise you just need to accept that 99.9% of the time you are wrong.

So you think a major scientific website is just a left wing mouth piece? You conservatives are anti-science. That is a fact.

More far left AGW church going Obama drone propaganda.
 

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