
9 million
annual deaths due to worldwide pollution
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Every year the number of people that die prematurely due to worldwide pollution keep on increasing. And right now that pollution in water, soil, air, chemical or work-related pollution is already taking the life of 9 million people around the world.
Let us think about that for one more second, every single year 9 million people end up dying prematurely due to the modern day pollution we all contribute to.
And yet, we live in a world where some, be it the potus or other greedy people with lacking intellectual faculties thrive to make it easier and more profitable to keep on polluting instead of putting their time and resources into making the world healthier and better to live in ( and thus causing less bodily harm and death around the world )
I do not know about you, but I find it grossly offensive that some political and corporate leaders refuse to see the insurmountable worth in
not killing 9 million people every single year.
Just as how I find it incredibly dishonest to talk about profit by pollution since the total toll for society is so much greater due
to pollution vs the same society being a non-polluter.
2050AD
[ Oceans run the risk of having more total weight of plastic than fish.]

Why do I call it global pollution?
Because pollution is global, what happens in place A will spread all around the world, the same way we all share the same Earthly resources which in turn is in dire need of a planetary ecosystem that is sustainable so the resources we all depend on can replenish.
So no one that promotes maintained lacking sustainability, pollution or worse increased local pollution is void of blame, be it the 9 million dead people, the mountains of litter hiding in our global waters or the more than 75 percent decline over 27 years in flying insects around the world.
All these things are related to the way we do modern day life, the way we pollute, the way we keep putting short-term profit ahead of everything else. Void of thought and blind to cause and effect.
A link to the study in question can be found down below.
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