Is China worsening the developing world’s environmental crisis?

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The developing world is in the midst of an environmental crisis. Simply breathing the air is a leading cause of death.

One recent study found that pollution is to blame for a fifth of sub-Saharan Africa’s infant deaths. Another showed that exposure to toxins or other dangerous substances in the air killed over 9 million people in 2015 alone, with 92 percent of those deaths occurring in developing countries – this is more people than were killed by AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined in that same year. In Latin America, over one-third of deathsfrom lung cancer, stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were estimated to stem from air pollution in 2012.

August 22, 2018 6.37am EDT

Bryan Keogh