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Economic cost of air pollution to human health and society. - Coggle…

- - - - Whilst human-made changes to ecosystems have often generated large economic gains, biodiversity loss damages the functioning of ecosystems and leads to a decline in essential services (food, medicine, water, etc), which may have severe economic consequences, particularly in the longer term.
- - - - Black carbon alone has caused more damage to Indian wheat yields than climate change.
  - - - Increase in temperature and change in precipitation as a result of anthropogenic climate change has caused a 3.5% decrease in wheat yield on a country level in India in that same period
      - In 2010, this loss was the equivalent of more than 24 million tonnes of wheat in India, worth around $5 billion.
  - - - China is currently the world's largest food importer and can have a global impact on the economics when it comes to importing food
- - - - Causing cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological health problems etc.
        
        People have to pay more to seek treatment
        
        Poorer people have a higher risk of dying
  - - - cost the global economy about $225 billion in lost labour income in 2013.