More deaths from pollution than corona: UN
More people are dying from the terrible effects of environmental pollution than from coronas around the world. The state and various non-governmental organizations are responsible for this pollution. This information has come up in a UN environmental report. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that "immediate and ambitious measures must be taken to ban certain toxic chemicals in order to prevent such deaths."
According to the report, pesticides, plastics and electronic waste used in agriculture are the leading cause of death worldwide. About 9 million people die prematurely every year due to these reasons. This number is more than death in Corona. The Corona Epidemic, a website that provides updates on corona infections and deaths, has killed more than 5.9 million people worldwide in the two-year-old corona epidemic.
The report on the severity of environmental pollution was published on the website of the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday. It will be presented at a council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, next month. The UN Human Rights Council has already declared that access to clean environment is one of the human rights.
The United Nations says more deaths from pollution than corona are rarely discussed in various quarters. David Boyd, author of the report and the UN's special envoy for the environment, said: As a result, the problem has become widespread, undermining people's right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
In the report, the UN has recommended ban on polyfluoroquil and perfluorocal. These man-made ingredients are used to make household utensils (especially non-stick utensils). This chemical is one of the leading causes of cancer in the human body. At the same time, the report emphasizes the need to clean up the world's most polluted areas quickly and efficiently.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called environmental risks the biggest challenge to human rights. He says the world is witnessing a sharp rise in climate change and environmental pollution, which poses a challenge to human rights.
The UN Environment Conference will be held on February 26 in Nairobi, the capital of the African country Kenya. The conference is expected to discuss in detail the development and implementation of effective and sustainable environmental protection strategies.
Meanwhile, pollution from riverine and other pharmaceutical products dumped in rivers around the world poses a threat to the environment and global health, according to another research report. The study was conducted at the University of York in the United Kingdom. The BBC reports that paracetamol, nicotine, caffeine, anti-epileptic and anti-diabetic drugs have been widely found in these wastes.
Rivers in Pakistan, Bolivia and Ethiopia are among the most polluted in the world, the report said. Waste of medicines and other pharmaceutical products falls directly into the rivers of these countries. The research report was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal.
The study took water samples from more than a thousand experimental sites in hundreds of countries. According to the report, active levels of pharmaceutical wastes were found in more than one-fourth of the 256 river water collected in the sample, which is unsafe for aquatic life.
Dr. led the study. John Wilkinson told BBC News: "What usually happens is that we take chemicals as drugs, they have the desired effect on us and then they leave our body. But now even modern wastewater treatment plants are not able to completely destroy the compounds in contaminated water before mixing it with river or lake water.
