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Re:Global pollution kills 9M a year, according to new study by tomxor on Sunday October 22, 2017 @06:05PM (#15529229)
STOP trying to ascribe an arbitrary death toll!!!

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.

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Re:Global pollution kills 9M a year, according to new study by mlinksva on Sunday October 22, 2017 @06:48PM (#15529453)
It says premature deaths. I'm not sure it makes no sense at all, but it is an unfortunate thing to focus on. DALYs seem better, and are discussed throughout the article (which I've only skimmed so far), eg:

> The GBD study also estimates that disease caused by all forms of pollution was responsible for 268 million DALYs—254 million years of life lost and 14 million years lived with disability. This information is available by country and region and is presented in the appendix.

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