The dead of pollution

[Christophe]

Ah finally we talk about it to the GENERAL public !!

Air pollution in cities has a direct impact on life expectancy

From Véronique MARTINACHE (AFP) - 3 hours ago

PARIS - Air pollution in major European cities, linked in particular to road traffic, has a direct impact on life expectancy, according to the conclusions of a European scientific program published on Wednesday.

Led for three years in 12 European countries by more than 60 scientists, the Aphekom project, coordinated by the Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS), set out to determine the health and economic impacts of air pollution and to assess the effect of regulations in this area.

It thus shows that life expectancy in large European cities could increase up to 22 months for people aged 30 and over if the guide value recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for fine particles was respected.

In the 25 major cities studied, totaling 39 million inhabitants, exceeding the threshold of 10 micrograms per m3 of air set by the WHO for the annual average level of fine PM2,5 particles (less than 2,5 microns) results in 19.000 deaths per year.

From an economic point of view, it weighs for around 31,5 billion euros per year (health expenditure, absenteeism, etc.).

Of the 25 cities, Stockholm is the only one below the WHO threshold (9,4 micrograms / m3).

Bucharest and Budapest, which have the highest levels of fine particles, could lower their life expectancy by 22 and 19 months, respectively.

France "is in a median situation", indicated Christophe Declercq (InVS).

The 9 French cities analyzed could gain "4 to 8 months" of life expectancy, or "around 3.000 annual deaths". Marseille would have the most to gain, ahead of Lille, Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Rouen, then Le Havre and Toulouse.

These are "average exposure values", underlined Christophe Declercq, with "strong heterogeneity depending on the neighborhood".

Fine particles, which can penetrate deep into the respiratory tract, are emitted by combustion. In large urban areas, vehicle emissions, especially from diesel engines, contribute nearly a third of them.

The Aphekom project has also shown that living near road traffic significantly increases the risk of chronic diseases. He estimated that in 10 European cities, 15% of childhood asthma could be attributed to urban traffic.

"On average 30% of the population of the 10 cities taken into account by Aphekom lives within 75 meters of a road on which more than 10.000 vehicles circulate per day", underlined Nino Künzli (Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Creal , Barcelona).

The impact of traffic-related pollution is also found in chronic bronchitis or in cardiovascular pathologies, but less solid data are available and scientists prefer to substantiate their work before providing figures, said Laura Perez (Creal , Barcelona).

On the other hand, the Aphekom project has shown a "considerable" reduction, of the order of 66%, in the levels of sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the ambient air since the 90s and the establishment of a European legislation aimed at reducing sulfur levels in fuels. A decrease which made it possible to prevent some 2.200 premature deaths in 20 European cities analyzed.

“There would be big benefits to having good air quality management, especially with regard to road traffic,” said Alistair Hunt (University of Bath, UK).

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... c8c2c27.61

And a more in-depth article: http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2 ... _3244.html

[Obamot]

The dead of pollution, are dead by poisoning. So if we add to these statistics:

- fine micro particles (and not only that from road traffic or factories, but also those resulting from domestic activities)
- pollution in food.
- POPs, boron, bisphenols and other disruptors.
- immunodeficiency caused by poisoning (voluntary or not) of populations and the source of which is in particular the Codex Alimentarius.
- side effects of drugs.
- mental poisoning and depression subsequent to all of the above points.
- including immuno-depressive illnesses.

Would we get to one in three people? Or two?

[Christophe]

Yes oba, but here we are talking exclusively about air pollution only .... otherwise it would be a bit complicated ...

Another article which gives the sources: http://www.letelegramme.com/ig/generale ... 225841.php

Air pollution in major European cities, linked in particular to road traffic, has a direct impact on life expectancy, according to a study coordinated by the Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) on a European scale.

The Aphekom program, coordinated by the Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS), was carried out in 12 European countries for three years. It aimed to determine the health and economic impacts of air pollution and to assess the effect of regulations in this area. The findings were released yesterday.

Life expectancy up to 22 months

Even if we suspected that fine particle pollution was harmful to our health, the study in question delivers a clear observation: urban pollution has a direct effect on the life expectancy of the inhabitants of big cities. 25 of them have been studied, and there is an almost systematic exceedance of the threshold of 10 micrograms per m3 of air set by the WHO for the annual average level of fine particles. According to the study, if this guide value was respected, the lifespan could be increased up to 22 months for people aged 30 and over.

According to the InVS, from an economic point of view, compliance with this guide value would translate into a profit of around 31,5 billion euros (reduction in health spending, absenteeism, and associated costs loss of well-being, quality and life expectancy).

France "in a median situation"

According to AFP, fine particles, which can penetrate deep into the respiratory tract, are emitted by combustion. In large urban areas, vehicle emissions, especially from diesel engines, contribute nearly a third of them.

Concerning France, more specifically, nine cities were analyzed. France "is in a median situation", according to Christophe Declercq, of InVS. We could gain "4 to 8 months" of life expectancy, or "about 3.000 annual deaths". An observation that would particularly appeal to Marseille.

http://www.invs.sante.fr/display/?doc=p ... index.html

http://www.aphekom.org/web/aphekom.org/home

Press Release

Aphekom sheds new light on health effects and
economics of urban pollution in Europe

Saint Maurice, France, March 2, 2011

Coordinated by the Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) and carried out in 12 European countries by more than 60 scientists, the Aphekom * project is now making public the results of three years of work on the health impacts of air pollution in Europe and concludes:
- further decreasing the levels of fine particles in the air of European cities would lead to a non-negligible benefit in terms of increasing life expectancy and reducing health costs;
- living near road traffic significantly increases the morbidity attributable to air pollution.

The main lessons of the Aphekom project are presented and discussed today at the final meeting, which is attended by many environmental players and European decision-makers.

Impact on life expectancy and health expenditure
Using conventional methods, the assessment of the health impact in 25 large European cities shows that life expectancy could increase up to 22 months for people aged 30 and over (depending on the city ​​and the average level of pollution), if the average annual levels of fine PM2,5 particles were brought down to the threshold of 10 micrograms per cubic meter, guide value recommended by the WHO.
From an economic point of view, respecting this guide value would translate into a profit of around 31,5 billion euros (reduction in healthcare costs, absenteeism, and costs associated with the loss of property -being, quality and life expectancy).

Living near road traffic significantly increases the morbidity attributable to air pollution

Using innovative methods, Aphekom has shown that living near road traffic is a major factor in the development of chronic pathologies.
It has been estimated in particular that, in 10 European cities, living near road traffic could be responsible for around 15% of childhood asthma. We could find similar or higher proportions of chronic respiratory and cardiovascular pathologies frequent in adults aged 65 and over living near traffic.
In total, for these cities, the cost associated with these impacts would amount to around 300 million euros each year.

Past and future impacts of European legislation

According to Aphekom's results, it appears that European legislation aimed at reducing sulfur levels in fuels has resulted in a marked and lasting decrease in levels of sulfur dioxide (SO2) in ambient air. This measure prevented nearly 2 premature deaths, the cost of which is estimated at 200 million euros in the 192 cities studied.

All of these results underline that the promulgation and implementation of effective regulations in the field of air pollution translate into significant health and monetary benefits. At the same time, they show the interest there would be in regulating the levels of air pollution near road traffic.

These results are particularly relevant since, since 2005, various countries of the European Union have exceeded the regulatory limit values ​​for the levels of particles in ambient air. In addition, the implementation of current regulations is on the agenda at European and national levels, and the European Union is preparing for 2013 a review of the current regulations.

Information to act: the ultimate goal of the Aphekom project

The Aphekom (Improving Knowledge and Communication for Decision Making on Air Pollution and Health in Europe) project makes its results and tools available to decision-makers to help them formulate more effective local, national and European policies. It provides elements to health professionals to better advise vulnerable people, as well as to all citizens so that they can better protect their health.

* The Aphekom project took place from July 2008 to March 2011. It was co-funded by the European program of community action in the field of public health (2003-2008) (Grant Agreement No. 2007105) and by the many local and national organizations that have dedicated resources to the accomplishment of the project. Environmental health surveillance has remained at the heart of the concerns of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance since its creation 13 years ago.

[Leo Maximus]

Ah finally we talk about it to the GENERAL public !!

We have been talking about it to the general public for a long time, Christophe, but is it the general public who can do something? And what ?

In my hometown there is a primary school with a parking lot shared with that of the town hall. Four times a day we come to drop off and pick up the children. It is especially in the evening that there is a problem: on an area of ​​half a hectare for a quarter of an hour to half an hour there are 200 cars, plus school buses, with the engine running. They are almost all diesels which are not even Euro1 (R21, BX, 405, etc ...). Result, there is pollution in-real-sem-blah-ble let the kids take a deep breath.

In the municipal monthly, the mayor advised to stop the engines, which nobody does because they are diesels.

ML

[Christophe]

We have been talking about it to the general public for a long time, Christophe, but is it the general public who can do something? And what ?

I do not agree, reports like this from 2003/2004:

https://www.econologie.com/morts-pollution/
https://www.econologie.com/telechargemen ... rapport-1/
https://www.econologie.com/telechargemen ... rapport-2/
https://www.econologie.com/citepa-pollut ... nt-france/
https://www.econologie.com/citepa-invent ... on-france/

had, I believe, at the time, not been the subject of articles or dispatches in the mass media ... we had to look for them on the sites of specialized organizations, Afsse and Citepa in our case!

At least, personally, I had never heard of it in the mainstream media ...

What to do?

Well, I think that if we touch HIS health, the CONSUMER will perhaps change his habits more than when we talk about the health of the PLANET ...

No? It's just a very selfish and very human behavior ...

I also think that the figures for the Aphekom program are lower than the reality ... in the 2004 Afsse report, we can read:

"We learn that out of an urban population of 15 inhabitants in 259 agglomerations of France in 590, 76 deaths would be attributable to pollution by fine particles. This represents 2002% of the total mortality of this same population that year ! "

"France alone would see 31 deaths from air pollution per year, including 700 (17%) attributable to road traffic alone !!"

But it is sure that saying that 32 deaths are due to air pollution (almost as much as alcohol or tobacco), mediatically, politically and economically, it goes less well than saying that we lose some month of life ...

That may be the reason why we don't talk about it in the mass media ...

[tree]

For those who understand English I allow myself to share information on radioactivity: http://www.tuberose.com/Japan%27sFukush ... rophe.html

[Christophe]

A new study from Nature about the deaths from air pollution ...

http://m.rfi.fr/europe/20150919-trois-m ... e-nous-tue

[Christophe]

Figure of 3 million revised upwards to 5.5 million according to: http://www.levif.be/actualite/environne ... 67641.html

Pollution is responsible for 5,5 million premature deaths worldwide each year, half of which are in China and India, two of the fastest growing economies, finds an American study.

And to think that we were talking about the problem here, almost 10 years ago already !!! But it is that the important things pass by the trap in the face of the stupidity of the net (which arrange some well which can continue to kill people!)

[moinsdewatt]

Pollution: suffocation at the foot of Mont Blanc

Frédéric Mouchon April 30, 2018,

Exasperated by the air pollution that stagnates at the foot of Mont Blanc, the inhabitants of the Arve valley are suing the state for "faulty deficiency".

When the sun is at its zenith and tourists from Chamonix (Haute-Savoie) point their cameras at Mont Blanc, the snow-capped peak stands out in majesty against a background of blue sky. But the mountaineers who have already climbed it have the right side of the postcard: from the roof of Europe, the panorama is regularly blocked by a thick cloud of pollution that stagnates at the foot of the massif. A sheet of fog so laden with fine particles and nitrogen oxides that the Arve valley is one of the most polluted sites in France.

Exasperated from having to breathe this stale air daily, the residents of Mont Blanc are demanding accounts from the State. 540 complaints against X have been filed in recent weeks with the gendarmeries of the department for endangering the lives of others. And that's just the beginning. According to our information, twelve residents of the valley will file Wednesday an appeal for "faulty deficiency" of the State before the administrative court of Grenoble. To the judges, the plaintiffs will in particular provide dozens of medical files highlighting pathologies attributable to them to pollution.

An increase in cases of asthma, bronchitis, chronic ear infections

"From year to year, I have noticed an increase in cases of asthma, bronchitis, chronic otitis in children and recurrent bronchiolitis in infants" details Mallory Guyon, general practitioner in Les Houches. But it was first as a mother of two children, aged 7 and 4, that this doctor decided to file a complaint.

In some schools in the valley, colored pictograms indicate daily air quality indices. "On certain days, children are not taken out for recess because the pollution is too heavy and the fine particles would descend directly to the bottom of their lungs" protested Michel Maniglier. This 72-year-old retiree, living in Sallanches, suffered four consecutive bronchitis this winter.

1,6 million cars and 600 trucks each year

"The State has done nothing and has been taking us on a boat for twenty-five years" accuses the septuagenarian who points in particular to the 1,6 million cars and 600 heavy goods vehicles which circulate each year at the foot of Mont Blanc. The Arve valley is a strategic crossroads connecting northern Europe to Italy via the Mont Blanc tunnel. Aware that "this valley is a textbook case", the Minister of Ecology Nicolas Hulot had come on site last September but had warned that he was not arriving "with a magic wand against pollution".

"Pollution is responsible for 85 deaths per year for this valley of the Arve alone"

A formula that the inhabitants have moderately digested. "An official study carried out in September showed that fine particle pollution was responsible for 85 deaths per year in this valley alone," emphasizes Muriel Auprince, spokesperson for the association of victims Coll'Air Pur santé. I saw a baby just three weeks old already suffering from bronchiolitis, a four-year-old child who had to take thirty-seven courses of antibiotics for repeated ear infections and my four-year-old daughter suffered this fall of pneumonia with abominable cough for three months. It is for them that I am fighting ”.

http://www.leparisien.fr/societe/pollut ... 690680.php

[ABC2019]

It seemed to me to have read that the pollution of the Arve valley was mainly due to wood heating ... They propose to ban it and make heating with gas or nuclear compulsory?