In this note I would like to approach the question posed in the title, and in the literature, from a purely consequentialist perspective. In other words, I want to ask, would treating extreme poverty as a violation of human rights actually lead to a reduction in poverty, or at least lead to the conditions which would in turn lead to a reduction in poverty? This is not to minimize or deny the im...

Short-term effects of air pollution on mortality have been well documented in the literature worldwide. Less is known about which subpopulations are more vulnerable to air pollution. We conducted a case-only study in Hong Kong to examine the potential effect modification by personal characteristics and specific causes of death. Individual information of 402,184 deaths of non-external causes and...

Environmental pollution is not a new phenomenon, but it remains the greatest global problem facing humanity and major environmental cause of morbidity mortality. Human activities related to urbanization, industrialization, mining exploration are at forefront pollution. Both developed developing countries share this burden, although awareness stronger laws in have done more protect their environ...

This paper describes a study of the relationship between indices of air pollution and respiratory and other causes of death in the large towns of England and Wales.* Although there are now well over a thousand instruments measuring air pollution in one way or another in England and Wales, grave difficulties are involved in using their results to measure the average exposure to pollution experie...