The Air in China Continues to Kill Millions
The thickness of smog in many Chinese cities is deadly. Current GOP front-runner Donald Trump declared last week that climate change is "no big problem at all. If you look at China they are doing nothing about it." Well, that isn't exactly true as I will show. But, even if it were true Mr. Trump seems to be oblivious to the fact that by "doing nothing" China is killing 4,400 of its citizens every day . That comes to an incredible 1.6 million deaths every year . Hence the wisdom of doing nothing, I suppose. I have previously written about China's air pollution / climate change problems here and here . It is an ongoing concern in my reading. If recent studies are correct, the rate of total Chinese deaths due to air pollution is rising at about 200,000 more deaths per year. Which means that if China continues to "do nothing" then by 2017 some 2 million people will die each year from some of the worst smog conditions on the planet.