re: Pollution Killed 7 Million People Worldwide in 2012, Report Finds

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Setting aside the AGW argument, could these numbers influence your opinion on alternate/green energy investment?

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When I see a stat like this, I'm always amused that few are like me and notice a glaring omission.

They focus only on ONE result(the negative one) for a given variable. For example, it's like when cars get tinier and they tell us about improved gas mileage without discussing how those cars do when they run into other cars.

In this case, while certainly there are negative results of pollution, pollution is also pretty much generated by stuff that ALSO does in fact save lives in some cases.

For example. Obviously, if one could wave a wand and eliminate ALL pollution, one would also be waving a want and killing millions of people worldwide.

I'm not saying your OP has no merit to consider. I want us to get as technologically clean as we can. I just hate having stats foisted upon me like this without telling me the good being done also.

Since you mentioned AGW, I'll use that as an example. Why is is that there is damned near ZERO discussion of the positive effects that GW almost certainly WILL have? Will those effects outweigh the negative? Who knows? I do know that no one can even discuss them now without being branded a kook.