← on nowLGR-050 · v0.1.0 · model · model How many people die early from farm air pollution each year?
humans · Homo sapiens
died early from farm air pollution
600,000
a year
0.019
a second
1,643
a day
the livestock share
?
most of it. ammonia from manure and fertilizer becomes fine particulate.
method agricultural share of PM2.5 mortality from Lelieveld et al. 2015; livestock share from Domingo et al. 2021 (US).
- an estimate with a wide range. the point is the order of magnitude.source: Lelieveld et al. 2015; Domingo et al. 2021
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how this number is built
- method
- agricultural share of PM2.5 mortality from Lelieveld et al. 2015; livestock share from Domingo et al. 2021 (US).
- range
- 400,000–800,000/yr
- confidence
- model
- weakness
- attribution models differ; the site uses the order of magnitude and says so.
- becomes a feed
- OpenAQ, air in ten thousand cities right now
- dispute
- dispute LGR-050 · corrections are credited
- data
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