A large study by four research groups in China and the US concluded: “International trade is contributing to the globalization of emission and pollution as a result of the production of goods (and their associated emissions) in one region for consumption in another region.”\n<\/p>\n
The research studied worldwide premature deaths caused by one certain type of air polllution and found that of those “about [\u2026] 22 per cent were associated with goods and services produced in one region for consumption in another.” and went on to conclude that “the transboundary health impacts of [this type of] pollution associated with international trade are greater than those associated with long-distance atmospheric pollutant transport.” In particular: “consumption in western Europe and the USA is linked to more than 108,600 premature deaths in China.” “When we see pictures of terrible smog in Beijing, we have a tendency to point fingers and say they should clean up their stuff,” says Steven Davis, a scientist at the University of California and co-author of the paper, in an interview with the weekly New Scientist<\/em>. “But that’s a little unfair because when you and I go to Walmart and buy a lawn chair, it’s a few cents cheaper, and as a result people are dying in China.”\n<\/p>\n Europe and the US do not come off scot-free, though: each year some 3000 Europeans die as a result of pollution from Chinese factories, while an earlier study found that around a quarter of California’s smog is caused by air-borne pollution from China.\n<\/p>\n Hans\n<\/p>\n \n\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A large study by four research groups in China and the US concluded: “International trade is contributing to the globalization of emission and pollution as a result of the production of goods (and their associated emissions) in one region for consumption in another region.” The research studied worldwide premature deaths caused by one certain type […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phlogiston.nl\/rumblefish\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phlogiston.nl\/rumblefish\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phlogiston.nl\/rumblefish\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phlogiston.nl\/rumblefish\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phlogiston.nl\/rumblefish\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.phlogiston.nl\/rumblefish\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"http:\/\/www.phlogiston.nl\/rumblefish\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phlogiston.nl\/rumblefish\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phlogiston.nl\/rumblefish\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phlogiston.nl\/rumblefish\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
(Nature<\/em>, http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v543\/n7647\/full\/nature21712.html<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n