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Re:PM2.5 exposure possibly leads to 1.37M people’s premature... by Retric on Sunday October 30, 2016 @11:32AM (#12830317)
That's 1:1,000 per year so a much higher percentage of overall deaths. On the order of ~7% of all deaths in china assuming 1/1000 * ~70 year life expectancy.
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Re:PM2.5 exposure possibly leads to 1.37M people’s premature... by rockinghigh on Sunday October 30, 2016 @03:04PM (#12831588)
Death rate in China is 7.7 deaths/1,000. So 1/1,000 caused by pollution would be closer to 13% of all deaths.
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Re:PM2.5 exposure possibly leads to 1.37M people’s premature... by Retric on Sunday October 30, 2016 @06:03PM (#12832641)
Wow, China's population must be aging really quickly.
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Re:PM2.5 exposure possibly leads to 1.37M people’s premature... by TheDong on Sunday October 30, 2016 @09:55PM (#12833771)
Interestingly they're aging at 1 year per year, which is only a tiny bit slower than the people who live high in mountains who age at 1 year + epsilon (where epsilon is gravitational time dilation) per sea-level-year
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Re:PM2.5 exposure possibly leads to 1.37M people’s premature... by TheDrizzle43 on Monday October 31, 2016 @11:25AM (#12837598)
I was curious how much altitude would affect aging so I did a quick google search. "The atomic clock calculated that for every 12 inches of elevation, 90 billionths of a second are added to a lifetime (79 years)"
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