Environment
Air Pollution Kills More Than 2 Million a Year
But silver lining: This scourge isn't being worsened much by that other anthropogenic menace, climate change.
Here's the bad news: The mortality rate continues to be massive for human-caused air pollution, which each year is tied with more than 2.5 million premature deaths around the world.
Now for the silver lining, if you can call it that: At least this air-pollution scourge isn't being worsened much by that other anthropogenic menace, climate change.