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300 thousand deaths from air pollution in the EU every year
2023-12-07 09:00:49 / BOTA
The climate emergency is not the only reason why fossil fuels in internal combustion engines should be banned. Air pollution, with an intense density, as it happens in most cities, is the result of the emission of an excessive amount of poisons concentrated in the air we breathe.
The consequence? In the European Union alone, hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. A carnage that we do not understand, but that continues unabated.
However, it would only be enough to fall within the limits indicated by the World Health Organization.
According to the latest report of the European Environment Agency, presented in recent days at the fourth EU Forum on Clean Air 2023, which was held in Rotterdam (Netherlands), in a year in the EU over 300 thousand citizens die alone because of the polluted air we breathe.
The report estimates that 253,000 deaths in one year could have been avoided if concentrations of fine particles in the air, those suspended particles containing metals and other poisons, had simply been contained within the limits of WHO indications.
To this figure must be added 52 deaths, again in just one year, due to nitrogen dioxide pollution and another twenty thousand deaths allegedly caused by ozone.
Particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone are the three main air pollutants.
According to new assessments of the effects on human health, exposure to air pollution causes or worsens several diseases such as lung cancer, heart disease, asthma and diabetes.
However, the measures to curb air pollution, which the European Union has already adopted in the new century, have influenced the curbing of this massacre, which otherwise would have had even more tragic proportions.
Between 2005 and 2021, according to the European Environment Agency, the number of deaths in the EU attributable to fine particles alone fell by 41%.
However, air pollution continues to represent the main environmental risk to the health of Europeans followed by other factors such as exposure to noise, chemicals and increased health effects due to heat waves and is responsible for diseases, chronic diseases and deaths, especially in cities and urban areas.
These data confirm that air pollution remains the number one health problem among those related to the environment.
Among air pollution-related diseases, the burden of disease associated with exposure to fine particles is caused by ischemic heart disease, followed by stroke, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and asthma.
In the case of nitrogen dioxide, the greatest burden is due to diabetes mellitus, followed by strokes and asthma.
European citizens, the European Environment Agency says, can check real-time air quality data through various platforms, including the European Air Quality Index app.
The latest version of this app introduced new features where users can check air quality anywhere in the EU, based on hourly updated information from more than 3,500 monitoring stations in Europe, as well as view air quality patterns at the level European. The app is available in 24 languages and comes with a variety of features that allow users to rate and compare the air quality of their chosen locations.
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