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The causal relationship seems like a stretch here. I highly doubt reducing air pollution will cure anyone’s depression. That said, it has other value in signal
by bransonf 7y ago
The causal relationship seems like a stretch here. I highly doubt reducing air pollution will cure anyone’s depression.
That said, it has other value in signally regions of high air pollution are regions of higher proportional depression.
Areas of high pollution are less desirable to live in. If you live right next to a highway, garbage dump or power plant, your property value is going to be lower. (I must admit, I’m taking a US-centric perspective here)
With that in mind, you could just as easily conclude that living in poorer regions causes depression.
Anyone who thinks curing depression is as simple as cleaning up the air is oversimplifying a much more complicated relationship.
- galangalalgol 7y agoDepression has many causes. Some of them are super simple. Loss of a loved one. Or a lack of manganese. Why is it surprising that breathing things other than air might ne depressing?
- scythe 7y ago>The causal relationship seems like a stretch here. For context, particles from PM2.5 can and apparently do enter the brain: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/05/toxic-air-pollution-particles-found-in-human-brains-links-alzheimers https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/05/toxic-ai...
- ptah 7y ago> If you live right next to a highway, garbage dump or power plant In cities like London most of the city is like that. probably same as L.A. or New york, the whole place is next to a highway + powerplant + garbage dump