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Yes. Lead moreso that other pollutants. Areas with higher concentrations of ground lead (older, poorer parts of cities) are pretty strongly linked with violent
by huffmsa 7y ago
Yes. Lead moreso that other pollutants. Areas with higher concentrations of ground lead (older, poorer parts of cities) are pretty strongly linked with violent crime.
Pretty well documented, don't have the citations handy though. It's been thoroughly discuss on HN.
Rudimentary citation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
- ljf 7y agoInterested - what would be causing the high lead levels in those areas, not that lead has been removed from petrol? Is it legacy contaminants or other ways that lead is released into the environment? I was warned off eating the food I grew in my garden in London as historically people threw their ash into their gardens, so the soil their can be pretty polluted.
- Richard_East 7y agoLead is still present in Avgas.
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago100LL is used in such vanishingly small quantities compared to basically every other source of lead it may as well be rounding error. Someone always brings this into any discussion of lead as though we should all be outraged that lead isn't technically banned in all fuel.
- huffmsa 7y agoA lot of it is air pollution which settled into the soil decades ago. Hard to clean up