Live Small and Prosper: Our type of lifestyle is doubly deadly

Part 3

People, like glacial ice, are disappearing at an alarming rate.

According to a recent study by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) almost 21,000 Canadians will die this year because of short- and long-term exposure to air pollution.

[Link to article: London newspaper]

Almost double the amount is predicted by 2031.

When I suggested in an earlier post our city should “go onto something else that will help the environment” (e.g. ban plastic bags, build an electric car company or subdivision of very small homes) I didn’t add “or else thousands of us won’t survive.”

I would imagine the present (1:2,000) and future (1:1,000) death rate associated with air pollution is somewhat the same in the U.S. and Mexico but because those countries have much greater populations their losses won’t be as noticeable.


[Photo in context]

At least until the CMA discovers how many annual deaths are attributable to water, land and food degradation as well.

Then it will be more visible how deadly the North American fossil fuel-based lifestyle has become.

21,000 is likely the tip of the quickly melting ice berg.

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