It seems that the Chinese pressured the World Bank to alter a report on pollution-related deaths. Seems that 750, 000 Chinese died from bad air or water or whatnot.
Is that a lot? I've bumped a few numbers around on the calculator and I still don't know. The population of China is about 1 1/3 billion. So 750,000 is about .06% of the population. Seems like a lot. The population of the US is just a little over 300 million. That rate would translate to 170, 500 or so. Is that a lot? We had 42, 636 road fatalities in 2005. We had 17, 011 AIDS deaths the same year. And 16, 692 murders.
Finding data about air pollution deaths in the US isn't easy. Emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease. We don't like to talk about what the causes of those sorts of things are.
I'm just sayin'.
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