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It's described quite clearly, with a number of references in the most widely read scientific paper in 2013 in the import scientific journal Environmental Science and Technology, a publication of the American Chemical Society.
http://pubs.acs.org/action/showMostReadArticles?topArticlesType=recent&journalCode=esthag
According to the medical/scientific journal Lancet, putting together scientific and medical authors from around the world, examining all of the world's health records, and collating them, in the last 20 years, more than 120 million people died from air pollution.
The Lancet, Volume 380, Issue 9859, Pages 2224 - 2260, 15 December 2012
This bullshit article from a weak minded journalist from the vast circle jerk of anti-nukes does nothing to define what is and what is not criminal.
Criminality is often defined and nurtured by fear and ignorance.
So it is with the sickening rhetoric of the anti-nukes, who have spent that same 20 years burning oil, gas and coal to try to prove, among similar things, that among the 20,000 dead from the earthquake in Japan - about whom they mostly don't give a shit - there is one who died from leaked radiation from the destroyed reactors.
During the same 20 years, about 600 billion tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste were dumped into the planetary atmosphere while we waited, insipidly, for the "solartopia" of the stupid, poorly educated freak Harvey Wasserman, and his fellow anti-nukes.
By the way, the New York Times reported yesterday, that huge stretches of Chinese agricultural land are intractably polluted with cadmium, resulting, predictably in increased cancer and a range of other health problems.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/world/asia/good-earth-no-more-soil-pollution-plagues-chinese-countryside.html?pagewanted=all
There's plenty of more information about this tragedy in the primary scientific literature, regrettably which are not read by "solartopia" anti-nukes because they don't understand a single thing about science, and in fact, hate it with all their uselessness and ignorance.
In other news, in service to Wasserman's expensive fantasy about a "solartopia" the First Solar cadmium telluride solar cells are setting "new records" for efficiency, although after years of jawboning while 6 million people died each year from air pollution, and the cost of hundreds of billions of euros, dollars, trillions of yen and yuan - this on a planet where more than 2 billion people lack basic sanitation, the grand cadmium powered solar scheme doesn't produce even one of the 538 exajoules of energy humanity produces each year.
In prisons, I'm told, there are criminals who love to call other people criminals while excluding themselves, despite where they sit.
Given the massive number of unnecessary deaths from air pollution, and the role anti-nukes played in it, I am reminded here of this appalling, tragic fact.
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