The 1970 Clean Air Act Avoided Up to 134,000 Male Fetal Deaths

Ongoing air pollution is responsible for generating a growing number of male fetal deaths. This is the main conclusion of a recent study elaborated by Nicholas J. Sanders and Charles F. Stoecker, which proves that young men have to be grateful to the officials who adopted The Clean Air Act in 1970.

Imposing efficient regulations in the matter of air pollution seems to have avoided up to 134,000 fetal deaths, according to the paper.

In just two years, experts estimated that 10,000 babies were born instead of dying in their mothers' wombs, all thanks to the CAAA’s positive effects.

However, they managed to highlight that male fetus are more threatened by air pollution than female ones.

The government spent approximately $500 billion to guarantee CAAA's efficiency but, by the end of the day the benefits of this measure are worth a lot more, being evaluated at $20 trillion.

The study highlights that the male population under 40 has to be excited that such a measure has been effectively applied.

Pollution doesn't only put our health in danger, it also threatens our entire species, according to the data provided by the two researchers.

“We find a statistically and economically significant association between ambient TSP levels and the fraction of live births that are male: a one unit increase in annual ambient TSP levels is associated with approximately a 0.088 percentage point change in the probability of a live birth being male, and a standard deviation increase in the annual average TSPs (approximately 35 micrograms per cubic meter) is associated with a 3.1 percentage point change.”

“These effects are larger when considering particularly vulnerable subgroups, such as less educated mothers, single mothers, and black children,” stated Sanders and Stoecker in their study.

This regulation proved to be a safe way to prevent male fetal deaths in the 70's, but our present society increases the challenge.

In times when industrial processes are blooming and the CO2 footprint seems to be almost impossible to handle, more strategies which fight pollution have to be drawn to empower the 1970 Clean Air Act.

The governments have to scale up their efforts to increase the air quality, or things might get out of control in the near future.