Pollution's Staggering Death-toll

The climate isn't the only thing that's hurting from our waste. Whether it's toxic air pollution, polluted waters, or contaminated soils, our waste is hurting humans - in catastrophic numbers. So just how bad is it? And does fighting climate change mean we solve the problem for free?


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Flint footage from TT3 TV
E-waste footage from spolek ARNIKA
Tower Hamlets footage from London Dashcam
Dead fish by zackhohenstein
Graves photo by Lindsey Turner

[ClimateAdam]

What fraction of deaths would you have guessed? One in...?

[ECOnnectYouTube]

Great video, Adam! I absolutely love the "climatebadam" scene at 0:24. You have an amazing way of providing valuable information in a fun and create manner. Love your work! Keep it up!!

[Klaster_]

Man, that hit home. My hometown of 1 million people has one of the worst air quality ratings in the country. The electricity and heating come from brown coal, mined nearby. We've got a hydroelectric station, but it powers an aluminium smelter, the second world largest, which pollutes everything around it. The region exports gas to other countries, but the government doesn't even bother to connect the city to the pipe. What modest initiatives citizens manage to organize gets trampled by the authoritarian regime, where citizens can't change a thing and all forms of organization are persecuted.

[KarolaTea]

Great video. Wouldn't have guessed the number was that high, definitely shocking.

[SaveMoneySavethePlanet]

This is why I always get frustrated when naysayers bring up arguments about pollution for solar panels and windmills, etc. sure, the manufacturing processes for those things pollute, but it’s no where near on the same scale as what coal and natural gas fired power plants do!

I’m actually editing my video on fireworks right now because they have a visible effect on air pollution for one day on July 4th. The surprising thing is that 90% of fireworks are sold directly so consumers. So we can have a huge effect by simply not setting off our own and just going to our local community event!

[athenadia]

Wow. That's a shocking statistic. It just goes to show how talking and learning and fighting against climate change is more important than ever. Thanks for another enlightening video Adam!

[RxequalsRR]

Very underrated channel, thanks for makeing these videos depressing as they can be

[kellytamburello]

This is scary. I think a lot of disease that we see on the rise these days can ultimately be traced to pollution of some type. It’s happening in animals as well as people.

[shaunaburton]

Also, I don’t know how it would be studied, quality of life is impacted by the bodies reaction to pollution by inflammation. Inflammation is a huge part of most diseases and auto immune diseases can have serious symptoms and possible environmental causes.

[jamesgrover]

A Harvard report from September 21 said "about 1 in 5"

[sculptureforasmallplanet]

Thanks Adam!
You ever see the movie Alice’s Restaurant? In it Arlo Guthrie gets busted for illegal dumping some garbage. It’s a funny piece of American counter culture.
Any way, I think a question is, what will it take to hold these polluters responsible? Maybe if parents could ban together for the sake of there children.
Thanks again.

[basbekjenl]

Yeah we really should try and have more nature in the places where we live, they are a great proverbial canary in the cave for how our environment we live in is doing. When the trees next to the river are green and lush it's probably cleaner then the river with dead trees as far as the eye can see. If every home would introduce a couple more green leafy plants it would also do wonders cleaning up the air at home where you live.

[thatoneuser]

Can you make a video on how nuclear energy compares to solar and wind? Not talking about nuclear reactors that aren't viable currently, but reactors that are available right now. Like solar panels taking a lot of space and killing plants beneath them and ecological communities, the volatility/variation of energy output, energy per square meter, cost, how many solar panels/wind turbines would it take to match the same energy output of one nuclear reactor, etc. Would love to know your thoughts!

[ehhjbxO]

For people who are adverse to any talk about climate change crisis or refuse to believe it's happening, can't we agree that having clean air, clean water, and good soil would benefit us all. We could market "clean air & water, good soil" as something we all should strive for without the climate change crisis argument.

[derelictor]

Question: How the poorest areas of the world can be hit the most by polution? I thought those were the less industrialized

[antkin]

Many thanks, Adam. Couldn't have guessed, 1 in 6!

[peterdollins]

I'd have guessed 1 in 5. I lost the sight in my Left Eye. I then found that living in London there is a high likelihood this loss was due to London traffic pollution. When living on a small Greek Island for 7 years from 74 on and I felt pretty healthy from the fresh air & great Med diet. The mortality rate has since gone up in Greece from the diet being westernised & pollutions. Visible pollution with the invisible.

[doodle]

youtube has somehow stopped sending your videos to my feed. bell it is

[peterdollins]

Man, go to your local Drama centre or/and Green group to get others to help you act out your little dramas.