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"Hey, Mom, are we going to visit grandma and grandpa for Christmas this year?" "Oh honey don't you remember? They passed away last year. Lung cancer." Accord
by yongjik 11y ago
"Hey, Mom, are we going to visit grandma and grandpa for Christmas this year?" "Oh honey don't you remember? They passed away last year. Lung cancer."
According to a study, automobile emission causes 53,000 premature deaths every year in the US.
The question is, what kind of person wants other people to die early, and why?
Source: http://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-early-deaths-each-year-in-the-us-0829 http://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-e...
> Emissions from road transportation are the most significant contributor, causing 53,000 premature deaths, followed closely by power generation, with 52,000.
- alphapapa 11y agoI'm sorry, but it's not possible to know how many fewer people would die each year in the entire country if we did not drive gas-powered cars. It's not possible to tie a case of lung cancer to the fact that cars exist. "If only we drove electric cars charged by solar plants, grandpa would have lived 7 more years!" No, it doesn't work that way. Even if you strapped masks to everyone's face that measured the fumes they breathed from birth to death, you couldn't make a statement like, "If we didn't use fossil fuels, Bob Smith would have lived 5 years longer." By the way, how about the greatly increased life expectancy brought on by the amenities of modern life made possible by the use of fossil fuels? You know, abundant varieties of food in-and-out-of season, medicines, transportation, HVAC, communciations... the list goes on and on. If you want to go back to the frontier lifestyle, be my guest. People didn't live very long back then, and life was very hard.