UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet
www.theguardian.com
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9336139

He mentiond climate change and pollution , well worth a read IMO

“The future is really daunting for people in the Maldives … the climate emergency is an existential threat that overshadows all the other issues.”

over 40 million people have died of air pollution since I became special rapporteur in 2018, yet I just can’t get people to care.

“I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is.”

“I think the right to a healthy environment is actually the foundation that we require to enjoy all other human rights. If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.”

If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.

I get his bemusement, just here in Australia, 11,000 die from air pollution from cars annually, another 20,00 are hospitalised annually. The numbers are beyond horrendous and yet, on a scale of 1 to 5 fucks given, it’s 0

  • @[email protected]
    11•8 months ago

    How are people dying of air pollution? Like, lung diseases are at an increase?

    What does the hospital call it if someone dies of air pollution?

      • @shalafiEnglish
        0•8 months ago

        Yeah, but OP’s question, and mine, is how exactly do they link a death to air pollution. Seems like saying a particular weather event was caused by global warming.

        • @[email protected]English
          6•8 months ago

          No one is claiming to be able put pollution as the cause of each particular death. As with climate change, the effect is visible in the statistics, and the mechanisms that explain such an effect are understood. To say that over 40 million have died of air pollution is an estimate based on statistical data and our best scientific models.

          • @shalafiEnglish
            1•8 months ago

            I figured all that, but it seems statistically impossible to wrangle. Should have took stats in college I guess.