It'll disturb some Germans, and especially the news media itself....but Focus brought up this report from a US researcher who has been onto the topic of particulate 'deaths' and the mortality rate relating to air pollution.
This researcher, Peter Mock....laid out this one serious statistic....from the six cities in the world with the highest morality rate (relating to air pollution)....three of the cities are in Germany.
The six cities? Milan (Italy), Kiev (Ukraine), Turin (Italy), Stuttgart, Koln and Berlin.
The slam to this research? This didn't have to do with diesel particles, the topic that has hyped up German environmentalists and agenda groups...it's with general air quality (or the lack of such quality). This was more of a project to gaze over all particulate 'deaths' and the various contaminants in the air.
Having been to Berlin, Koln, and Stuttgart....I would offer these observations.
All three are highly urbanized, and with a fair amount of industry. All three lie on a mostly flat plain of land. All three have a significant number of people who live outside of the urbanized zone and travel to work within the city. All three have a significant amount of construction work going on, with heavy equipment being used on a hour-by-hour basis. All three have a significant number of diesel buses running.
The death statistics? Well....no one says much over how they were collected, but I would take a guess that they only counted city residents....not those who live a mile or ten miles outside of the urbanized zone.
Just something to think about. I'm sure that the environmentalists in these three cities will get all hyped up over the matter and demand immediate attention.
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