All but one of the world’s 100 most polluted cities are in Asia, according to a new report, underscoring how powerless the U.S. is in combatting the supposed threat of global warming.
The study, published by IQAir, focused on measuring fine particulate matter known as PM2.5, which gives an estimate of air pollution. Just nine percent of the over 7,800 cities analyzed worldwide managed to meet WHO’s standards, many of which were in America.
A majority of these cities are in India, with 83 cities identified as pollution hotspots. All these cities exceed the World Health Organization’s air quality guidelines by around 1000 percent. Other heavily polluted countries including Bangaldesh, Pakistan and Burkina Faso.
The world’s most polluted city is Begusarai, a city of around 500,000 people in northern India, with an average annual PM2.5 concentration of 118.9 — 23 times higher than World Health Organization guidelines.
IQAir Global CEO Frank Hammes argued that such pollution is shortening people’s life spans.
“We see that in every part of our lives that air pollution has an impact,” he said. “And it typically, in some of the most polluted countries, is likely shaving off anywhere between three to six years of people’s lives. And then before that will lead to many years of suffering that are entirely preventable if there’s better air quality.”
Hammes added that there will be no improvements unless such countries implement “major changes in terms of the energy infrastructure and agricultural practices.”
“We have such a strong overlap of what’s causing our climate crisis and what’s causing air pollution,” he argued. “Anything that we can do to reduce air pollution will be tremendously impactful in the long term also for improving our climate gas emissions, and vice versa.”
The findings underscore the utter futility of America making any meaningful contribution to the fight against so-called climate change, as Democratic politicians seek to force through an unaffordable and impractical transition to renewable energy with insane proposals such as the ‘Green New Deal.’
Earlier this month, the now departed U.S. climate czar John Kerry declared that the transition to green energy must be implemented and will prove to be “larger even than the industrial revolution.”
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