ENERGY’S FUTURE

An IEEE Central Coast Section PACE Project       Except as noted, the opinions stated here do not represent the opinions of the IEEE or of organizations within the IEEE

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•Pollution Effects have an Economic Impact

• 500,000 deaths are attributed to air quality issues each year.
• Earth Policy Institute claims 3M lives lost/yr. (Vs 1M lost to traffic fatalities)
• EPA claims 70,000 deaths in U.S./yr. from pollution (vs. 40,000 traffic deaths)
• 5% of deaths in urban areas are air quality related.
• Almost 290,000 premature deaths each year in China, costing $50B and 7% of GDP
• Ontario estimates that pollution costs $1B in medical/hospital fees and absenteeism for 11.9M people
• Scaled to the US. this would be about $30B/yr.

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