one of the study's authors, richard fuller, joins me now to go over the details. first of all, nine million. people are going to say, "wait. how do you calculate that? how do you get to a number this big?" >> it comes using statistics coming out of two organizations, w.h.o., in geneva and the health metricmetrics and evaluations fd by the gates foundation. and what those folk do independently, is collect statistics on what people are dying from country to country. and then look to allocate those deaths according to certain types of risks. so, for example, when you are exposed to air pollution, one of the things that could happen is you could get lung cancer. the same way you can when you get smoking. so these groups will allocate lung cancer deaths into five or six different causes. and we'll pick up all those that are related to pollution and aggregate them in this particular analysis. >> sreenivasan: one of the things that's most striking is the distribution of where these deaths are occurring. >> 92% in low- and middle-income countries. it's a development issue

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let's speak now to richard fuller.ollution and health and president of pure earth. he joins me from new york. he designed this report. welcome. tell us about this report. many statistics to talk about. is it telling us anything new? it is the first time we have taken pollution asa first time we have taken pollution as a whole, all of the different aspects. air, water, soil, and exposures in the workplace, and brought them all in one place, and to measure the economic cost, as well as health effects on the people of the world. 0k. one well as health effects on the people of the world. ok. one of the writers, your colleague, says pollution and poverty and poor health and social injustice are intertwined. how much more exposed are poor nations? well, much more, asi are poor nations? well, much more, as i think you understand very much from your perspective in southeast asia. pollution is an endemic part of life throughout south east asia and south asia. it impacts an enormous amount of people with death and disability. bu

and spoke with richard fuller one of the experts who contributed to that report we asked him which of the study's recommendations could help the most it depends on what country and the most important thing that countries ought to do first is to look within their own borders that where are the biggest problems for talks exposures is it from air pollution in the capital city or is it from soil pollution all that exposure or chromium or some industrial issue all mercury for example and gold mining areas and each country will have a different set of issues that are the most significant and once that is well known then of course programs can be designed and there are plenty of terrific ponder's around the world who can provide expertise on the says ends and reducing this disease because of course this isn't so much of a problem in europe or in the u.s. so these solutions are not complex they're well known it's just a matter a lot of go really to make sure that they're implemented. sicily is one of the most economically deprived areas of italy but it is also an island of striking natural be