Jared Diamond may speak 11 languages [okay, I admit, it's impressive], but statistics doesn't seem to be one of them. In an annoying, overwrought section of his new book published in the Guardian, he argues that one American life, one that "society has gone to the expense of rearing and educating but who dies before a lifetime of contributing to the national economy," is worth about $5M. Then he says that air pollution kills at least 130k Americans each year. Use the magic multiply button on your calculator and presto!, air pollution costs us $650M each year.
Except that's totally wrong.
The life of a healthy 21-year-old may be worth $5M, but those are not the people dying because of air pollution; the vast majority of people that air pollution kills are old and/or very sick people. If you want to look at this all cold and economic-style, killing these people probably saves the US tons of money, because old and sick people consume more than they produce. I'm not saying air pollution is good -- nor is causing the death of old and/or sick people -- but this argument is so weak you might wonder if Diamond is actually a corporate shill throwing out a straw man.
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