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

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7,000,000/7,125,000,000 = 0.00098 Sounds okay to me.....

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Would be interesting to know where those people died.

The article indicates that 1/3 or 2.3M+ were in Asia. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the combination of increasing regulations and therefore manufacturing costs in the US combined with globalization has shifted these deaths towards undeveloped countries.

I think what a lot of people don't realize is that businesses need to make a competitive profit in order to provide goods and services. It's not that Samsung needs to make an awesome TV at the highest margin possible, it's that Samsung's margin needs to be better than Sony's in order to please both customers and investors. Investors by the way aren't just guys with top hats, wear monacles, have pocket watches, and roll around in piles of gold in scrooge mcduck vaults, it's everyone that has a 401k plan.

If we really want to minimize pollution we need to make regulations and enforcement more realistic to lower manufacturing costs here and incent companies to manafacture here. Otherwise you are asking less developed countries to increase their regulations; and how are you supposed to do that? How are you supposed to force china to "do the right thing" for pollution at the expense of their economy (without military force)?

So, we can lament the deaths and think that we need to do something, but until someone comes up with a realistic and workable solution nothing will happen.