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From: el gringo (ramseylurker)
12/17/20
Air pollution a cause of UK girl's death, finds global landmark ruling
A 9-year-old girl who died after an asthma attack is thought to be the first person in the world to have air pollution listed as a cause of death in a landmark coroner's ruling.
Read more from CNNFrom: bml00
12/17/20
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From: el gringo (ramseylurker)
12/17/20
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From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
12/21/20
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It means the first deaths directly contributed to humans destroying the planet have arrived.
From: bml00
12/21/20
a GIRL with Asthma - what happened to the people who died in the 40's and 50's and 60's with SMOG created by coal usage etc ?
BM
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
12/22/20
It wasn't legally attributed to the smog.
That's the landmark moment.
From: bml00
12/22/20
smog WAS man made and killed thousands , the sad death of this Young girl is very bad but so were the deaths of thousands during the years that SMOG was on going
BM
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
12/24/20
Yes, but it was never the "official" cause of death.
"Respiratory failure" was probably written on the death certificate.
That's the point.
From: bml00
12/24/20
According to Wilki Great Smog of London 1952 in 5 days it killed 4000 people according to Govt estimates according to Modern Estimates it was somewhere between 10 to 12,000
What they put on the Death Certificate would be irrelevant SMOG was a man made phenomenon and it killed people stone bleeding dead
BM