• Question: How many animals and humans die because of pollution?

    Asked by 852amem49 to Sarah on 13 Mar 2018.
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      Sarah Naylor answered on 13 Mar 2018:

      I don’t know about animals but there are a few different stats for humans:

      – Air pollution kills 10 times more people than traffic accidents in the UK
      – 1 in 8 people in the world die due to air quality (according to the World Health Organisation)
      – Average UK life expectancy is reduced by 6 months
      – Each year in the UK, around 50,000 deaths are as a result of exposure to outdoor air pollution

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