China’s Number One Killer Takes One Life Every 12 Minutes
Submitted by Bill Belew on Friday, 20 July 2007No Comment
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the National Environmental Protection Administration, predict that there are more than 270 million urban Chinese breating polluted air.
In the next 13 years, 600,000 will die.
That means one person dies every 12 minutes from air pollution.
Add to that that about 20 million Chinese fall victim to respiratory diseases caused
by pollution and 5.5 million more get chronic bronchitis.
The World Bank estimates many more
die.
China's deputy director of the the National Environmental Protection Administration says, "Air pollution is still a severe problem in China."
Duh!
Wouldn't 'grave' problem be a more descriptive way to get his point across?
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