Environmental pollution and deterioration of health

An investigation by the University of Stuttgart commissioned by Greenpeace presented data shocking for the German health. The theme of research on the effects on health caused by released gases and particulate matter from the coal fired power plants in Germany. The result would be 3,100 deaths per year, which in a more extensive calculation would come to 33,000 years of life removed to the German people. Particularly under fire, including all 67 stations, would be those running on lignite. These data strongly contested by the German energy companies, raise the problem of environmental pollution in a country like Germany, known to be sensitive to the problems of the environment, but also reopen discussions much more extensive, such as the use of nuclear energy, more clean but less secure as immediate impact in the event of a disaster, and more generally the need for a global change towards cleaner energy forms, also in relation to pollution worldwide, especially that produced by the nations in growth. The issue of healthcare cost involved for the effects of pollution is becoming central, especially in times of economic crisis, but, on the one hand the social costs are high, even more so is the cost due to a potential slowdown in production. It is a dilemma in mind the already developed countries, which looks strongly in places where industrialization proceeds approaching. The failure of most of a world conference on the environment is the real signal of the impossibility of reconciling the way health and economic growth. However, the impact on state budgets of the chapters devoted to the health care system go up in value as well as the indirect effects of the development of diseases linked to environmental problems are becoming a cost equally important for government agencies and businesses. The problem, as is well seen from the example German, goes over the oil resources, and is inextricably linked to the profession of poor deployment of so-called clean energy production. There are still some resistance due to the large start-up costs, which combined with the obvious reluctance of economic forces related to traditional energy production systems, are often insurmountable obstacles to a breakthrough that leads to the reduction of concrete. Recently, it has come to the signing of an international treaty on the trade in conventional arms, which, if it can deploy its effects, could allow a drastic reduction in deaths from firearms. Certainly it is an issue that is particularly striking for its impact on the overall sensitivity, but the pollution problem is much more subtle and capable, unfortunately, far more massacres, even if silent. The need to ensure a greater right to health is not only a moral obligation merely, it comes to saving objective, to be achieved through public policies that can also provide new jobs. Sure reconcile the needs of all it is very difficult, especially because the starting positions are very different. It is obvious that the productivity boost of a nation with a mature industrialization is more easily adjustable to an economy in expansion phase, but it is very necessary to find a balance, also due to a depletion of resources, with whom we also wish to accounts. Involved in matters of international politics, which often fail to resolve the supranational organizations do not offer a fairly widespread commitment on environmental issues, also understood as a right of the person. This vacuum is not filled even by initiatives of individual states, influenced by interests that go in the opposite direction and the initiative is left to voluntary organizations too small to record in a timely manner on state laws and international treaties. Research such as that commissioned by Greenpeace and performed by prestigious institutions such as the University of Stuttgart, fail to impose adequate reflection in an audience too focused on immediate problems, an audience whose sensitivity was turned upside down by a rampant consumerism, which is one of the reasons of the great demand for energy production. So the circle closes with other preventable deaths.