The usual alarmism and hysteria! Air pollution in most Western countries has improved tremendously in recent decades!
What about existing morbidities of EU citizens (e.g. obesity) and their effects?
Concepts like burden of disease or attributable deaths or years of life lost are rather dubious and open to manipulation!
"Toxic air killed 500,000+ people in Europe in 2021, according to an EU report released Friday; reducing those pollutants to WHO-recommended levels could have prevented half of those deaths. The Guardian"
"Key messages
Air pollutant concentrations in 2021 remained well above the levels recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its air quality guidelines. Reducing air pollution to these guideline levels would prevent a significant number of attributable deaths in EU Member States (EU-27); 253,000 from exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5); and 52,000 from exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Furthermore, reducing the short-term exposure to ozone (O3) would have avoided 22,000 attributable deaths. ..."
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