I really doubt that’s true. Deaths from air pollution are probably being vastly undercounted here.
Air quality in the capital area is comparable to the industrial heartland of China during a significant part of the year.
Tell that to Mr. Gísli Marteinn.
Hmm, maybe. If you live on Hverfisgata and have your window open you’ll quickly see an accumulation of smog, dust, and particulates. One volcano or a new years celebration and things aren’t looking too good.
We’re less than half a million but get around 2 million people to the country a year. The air quality is probably just not that bad because of how few we are – but that doesn’t mean that we’re doing particularly well if the status quo were to remain as we scale upwards.
Maybe being a tiny nation in the middle of nowhere helps?
Like anything in Iceland, as soon as you talk about average, you will get extreme results. Whatever element you take, it will be an amazing/horrible figure when you take a per capita ratio.
Looking at the data, it states *Estimated number of deaths attributed to outdoor particulate matter pollution per 100,000 people.* When checking the population of iceland in 1990, we get 253’000.
If we take a death rate of 15.5 people per 100’000 out of a population of 253’000
`(15.5/100’000) * 253’000 = 39`
So, according to this data, air pollution killed 39 people in Iceland in 1990. That is 0.012% of the population. Covid, killed about 160 people over 4 years, 0.04%.
I’m calling bullshit on any statistics in Iceland. Even the one I manipulated myself. 😉
All 102 is being asphyxiated every time a private jet warms up. You never now when it happens and when you realize, it is too late, your whole flat smells like burnt plastic and the outisde too for at least half an hour. I am actually concerned by that.
The howling wind coming from a couple of hundred km of sea in any direction helps.
The gases from industry, cars, volcanoes and thermal springs doesn’t help.
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I really doubt that’s true. Deaths from air pollution are probably being vastly undercounted here.
Air quality in the capital area is comparable to the industrial heartland of China during a significant part of the year.
Tell that to Mr. Gísli Marteinn.
Hmm, maybe. If you live on Hverfisgata and have your window open you’ll quickly see an accumulation of smog, dust, and particulates. One volcano or a new years celebration and things aren’t looking too good.
We’re less than half a million but get around 2 million people to the country a year. The air quality is probably just not that bad because of how few we are – but that doesn’t mean that we’re doing particularly well if the status quo were to remain as we scale upwards.
Maybe being a tiny nation in the middle of nowhere helps?
Like anything in Iceland, as soon as you talk about average, you will get extreme results. Whatever element you take, it will be an amazing/horrible figure when you take a per capita ratio.
Looking at the data, it states *Estimated number of deaths attributed to outdoor particulate matter pollution per 100,000 people.* When checking the population of iceland in 1990, we get 253’000.
If we take a death rate of 15.5 people per 100’000 out of a population of 253’000
`(15.5/100’000) * 253’000 = 39`
So, according to this data, air pollution killed 39 people in Iceland in 1990. That is 0.012% of the population. Covid, killed about 160 people over 4 years, 0.04%.
I’m calling bullshit on any statistics in Iceland. Even the one I manipulated myself. 😉
All 102 is being asphyxiated every time a private jet warms up. You never now when it happens and when you realize, it is too late, your whole flat smells like burnt plastic and the outisde too for at least half an hour. I am actually concerned by that.
The howling wind coming from a couple of hundred km of sea in any direction helps.
The gases from industry, cars, volcanoes and thermal springs doesn’t help.