Honoring climate change agreements will save millions of lives

Image: KEVIN FRAYER/GETTY IMAGES Smoke billows from the stacks of coal-fired electricity plants as a woman wears a mask while walking in a neighborhood in Shanxi, China.

statnews.com - November 14th 2016 - David J Hunter and Francesca Dominici

If an infectious disease was killing 7 million people a year, it would be ludicrous to work to allay its impact decades from now rather than taking immediate action against it. Yet that is exactly how we are approaching the causes of climate change, which are both immediate and long-term killers.

This week’s “airpocalypse” in New Delhi shows just how urgently action is needed to prevent the air pollution that is not only damaging our planet and human health in the long term but killing millions of people around the world in the present.

(VIEW COMPLETE ARTICLE)