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| | OVER SEAS -- August 2002: Coastal Alert |
 | | A population's EF is the total area of productive land or sea required to produce all the crops, meat, seafood, wood and fiber it consumes, to sustain its energy consumption and to give space for its infrastructure. |
 | | Moreover, the pollution that is forming the haze could be leading to "several hundreds of thousands" of premature deaths as a result of higher levels of respiratory diseases, the report suggests. Studies indicate that the level of fatalities is rising along with the levels of pollution. |
 | | Results from seven cities in India alone, including Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai, estimate that some kinds of air pollution were annually responsible for 24,000 in the early 1990s. |
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