Number of the Day: 40
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 08.15.07
40 -- the percent of deaths worldwide caused by water, air and soil pollution. This is according to David Pimentel, Cornell professor of ecology and agricultural sciences, and a team of Cornell graduate students who examined data from more than 120 published papers on the effects of population growth, malnutrition and various kinds of environmental degradation on human diseases.
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Damn it! I just ate, and the first thing I see when I come on here is that sewege picture.
I hate thinking about how my body is affected just by going outside. In fact, it's sad to think of how many basic activities in my life are affected by pollution. Why do I feel like I have to be at war with my surroundings in order to maintain a healthy existance?
Pimmental's work has been posted on before. He seems something of a "devils advocate" choosing controversial topics
Being a literature review, I'd have to see it repeated by a third party before I'd concur that he's even in the right order of magnitude.
Whether it's exactly true I don't know, but it makes you think. You can be as environmentally friendly as you want but everyone else (including big corporations) need to do it too.
yet, life expectancies are at a historic high.
i guess we could go back to dying at age 35 from getting eaten by a sabretooth cat, or falling and breaking a leg.
that's disgusting something should be done about this.
well now we know wat factories can do to our water ewwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!