Automobile Pollution Consequences

It is believed that at this growth rate, the number of cars on earth will double within the next 30 years. …

Source: World Watch Institute

Link: http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1537

Michael Renner: Senior Researcher

In 2002, the world’s passenger car fleet hit 531 million. A quarter of these cars were in the United States, a country with just five percent of the world’s population, and a long known love affair for the automobile. The average car in the US travels 10 percent more each year than a car in the United Kingdom, about 50 percent more than one in Germany, and almost 200 percent more than a car in Japan.

And while Americans drive less fuel-efficient cars—the carbon emissions of U.S. automobiles are roughly equivalent to those of the entire Japanese economy – the fourth largest carbon emitter—efforts to raise mandated fuel efficiency standards in the U.S. are hitting constant road blocks.

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Author’s comment:

I have had Asthma/COPD for the past 9 years. It has changed my life and the way I’m forced to live it 180 degrees, it happened overnight, gasping for breath unable to retrieve any air I expelled…I thought I was dying on the spot. I have survived by using 3 powerful drugs; some may contribute to an early death as a side effect! I was forced to end all sports, walk slowly…like an old man. This may be a result of chemicals from work, air pollution..no one has a definitive answer.

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Asthma Epidemic Worldwide

Source: beating-asthma.com

Link: http://www.beating-asthma.com/asthma-statistics.html

Asthma Statistics Just Keep On Rising And Rising!

Asthma statistics show that more and more people have been diagnosed with the condition over the past years – so much so that some researchers state that the incidence of asthma has reached epidemic levels all over the world – and there has been plenty of research to support this evidence.

Because the numbers of people with asthma have risen so drastically, countries all over the world now recognise that this is a concern.

 

Asthma Statistics Worldwide

Approximately 300 million people worldwide have currently been diagnosed with asthma. And this number increases by an alarming 50% every decade!

The UK has the highest number of cases( over 15%), followed by New Zealand (with 15.1%), Australia (14.7%), the Republic of Ireland (14.6%), Canada (14.1%) and the United States(10.9%).

Approximately 180,000 people die every year through asthma related illness. It’s estimated that about 1 in every 250 deaths worldwide are related to asthma (American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology 2004). Overall, death rates have been falling since the 1980s.

Most asthma deaths occur in people over 45 years old and is it thought that many of these could be prevented.

Asthma Statistics USA

It’s estimated that 23.2 million people in the USA suffer from asthma – a figure that continues to rise year on year – Asthma and allergies strike affect 1 out of every 4 Americans according to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology.

It’s the major chronic illness of children in the USA. Nearly 9 million children under the age of 18 (that’s 12% of all children) have been diagnosed with the condition and children miss much of their schooling due to chronic illness from the condition (over 12.8 million school days are lost each year according to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology).

Comment:

If we as a Society believe, that the weak and inferior will be the first to go, and we accept that as Nature’s way, I say we are wrong! Nature is not the source of the poisons killing the weak and possibly genetically inferior, we are. The first to die may not be genetically inferior at all; they might be the most genetically pure?

Our World and the Environment in which we live is being altered in ways we don’t yet understand. Those that die today may only be the “tip of the Iceberg”, foreshadowing a horrendous future for all of Humanity. We do not know if the environmental toxins, produced by industry, are literally degrading our very genetic makeup, damning mankind to oblivion.