ABSTRACT
Pollution kills and, in spite of significant improvements in combating the harmful contamination of the air, water, soil, flora and fauna through political efforts over recent decades, it continues to do so in huge numbers. A breakdown of pollution mortality for 2010 revealed that air pollution alone is a bigger killer than anything in the contemporary world (killing over 6 million in 2010), representing a far greater human security threat than war, terrorism, human rights abuses and crime combined (which have claimed just over 700,000 annual casualties in recent years) (see Table 8.1).
