全球每年三百万人的过早死亡与空气污染有关?| Nature Podcast( 七 )



Interviewee: Jos Lelieveld

If I now compare this study, we find that the numbers have gone up tremendously, so there is a large number of deaths that we have not yet accounted for properly.



Interviewer: Adam Levy

Jen and her colleagues’ study may be accounting for additional deaths because they’re not assuming air pollution kills people solely through respiratory infections.Instead, the method simply looks at the relationship between infant deaths and the quality of the air. Their results are substantially larger than the numbersof deaths attributed to respiratory infections.