Global warming is not air pollution.
Global warming is the opposite of air pollution, but taken to an extreme.
Consider:
Eating too much involves a problem with food, but that problem is not called starvation.
Gambling involves an addiction to risk, but it is not an addiction to being timid and cautious.
So this question is in the wrong category.
To answer briefly anyway:
An estimated 3 million deaths per year, globally
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dpetti...
$40 billion a year in health care and lost productivity in the USA (estimate)
http://www.worldwatch.org/air-pollution-...
Air pollution has improved enormously since the introduction of the clean air acts that started in the late 1960's
All I know is very poor people in countries like Brazil, Phillipines, India, China flock to the cities, on a chance of gaining some kind of prosperity, to them air pollution is preferable to starvation.
Millions suffer from respiratory problems and many die in poor countries, from being forced to cook and heat their homes with wood or animal dung.
Among 2006 as well as 3 years ago, almost thirty, 000 medical center tickets as well as emergency-room appointments might have been prevented all through Ca in case government clean-air requirements have been fulfilled. These types of instances resulted in greater medical center treatment expense of around $193 mil. Medicare insurance as well as Medicaid invested regarding $132 mil upon this kind of medical center treatment as the relax had been received through personal thirdparty buyers. 5 situation research associated with person private hospitals within Riverside, Clovis, Lynwood, Stanford as well as Sacramento display that this expenses received through the various kinds of payers differ through area.
The costs of anything, including air pollution, cannot be known in general. They can only be known in their specific effects.
What's the cost of air pollution on: human health, medical costs, worker productivity, timber production, agricultural production, and outdoor recreation?
