IMF chief Christine Lagarde today said pollution from coal generation plants causes about 70,000 premature deaths every year in India.
Without giving any further details about deaths due to pollution in India, Lagarde noted that environmental problems does not just end with climate change.
The IMF Managing Director said she believes the world is facing economic, environmental and social crisis.
The remarks are part of a prepared speech to be delivered at the Centre for Global Development on the topic `Back to Rio — the Road to a Sustainable Economic Future`.
“Environmental problems, of course, do not end with climate change. In India, for example, pollution from coal generation plants causes about 70,000 premature deaths a year,” she said.
BS! Poverty is the cause, PERIOD!
Habeas corpus.
Premature deaths, hey?
How do they estimate ‘premature’?
Most of India is a diseased hovel. They share their food with monkeys because they consider them spiritual beings, Cows are revered and are allowed to defaecate all over the place. Perhaps they ought to just consider basic hygiene and get over all their gods and deity personified in the forms of animals and they may live longer.