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If you're gonna talk air quality and radiaton you need to use YPLL (or some other metric that considers age). Wheezing into the grave at 70 or getting cancer a
by dsfyu404ed 8y ago
If you're gonna talk air quality and radiaton you need to use YPLL (or some other metric that considers age). Wheezing into the grave at 70 or getting cancer at 65 is very different in terms of impact than a 25yo that falls off a roof installing solar or gets run over by heavy equipment in a mine.
Of course nobody uses age adjusted metrics because you can't make grandiose "bazillions of lives lost" claims using them.
- lm28469 8y agoThe vast majority of people will never encounter any radiation caused by a radioactive plant in their life, so this line of thought doesn't even make sense. > 91% of the world population live in area where air quality exceeds WHO guideline [0] If I had the choice I'd go for a < 0.01% chance of dying of radiation related death over a 100% chance of slowly but surely destroying my respiratory system. And let's be real, accident related deaths are a drop in the bucket. [0] https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/ https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/