STOP trying to ascribe an arbitrary death toll!!!<p>Pollution kills everyone by shortening or reducing quality of life, it's near impossible to quantify, but what makes no sense at all is picking some arbitrary threshold, everyone is affected not 9M not 1B, but 7B.
This would be far more useful if it’s measured in life years, than lives. There is big difference between pollution killing an healthy infant then killing a 86 year old suffering from a terminal illness.
No, sorry - this isn't science.<p>> air pollution was the biggest killer, leading to heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and other illnesses<p>There's absolutely no way you can definitively link deaths from heart disease to air pollution with any substantial degree of confidence, at least not in 99.99% of the cases.<p>I guarantee that within a short amount of time, this whole "study" will be invalidated as baseless political-motivated pseudoscience.