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What do you mean by 'polution' in this case and why do you consider it more important than the carbon emissions in this case?
by yreg 6y ago
What do you mean by 'polution' in this case and why do you consider it more important than the carbon emissions in this case?
- inglor_cz 6y agoAs someone who grew up in Ostrava, a city then full of heavy industry (nowadays it is rust belt): pollution in the form of flying ash and solid particles is absolutely horrible for your health. It can be seen in autopsies, where lungs of non-smokers resemble those of smokers. As kids, we were sick with all kinds of respiratory disease all the time and the air stank like burnt tires. Burning coal is dirty, dirty, dirty.
- yreg 6y agoI agree with that, however I would say that runaway climate effect and its impacts on the planet outweight (in importance/severity) the issue of decreased life expectancy of beings living in cities/near factories. Therefore I don't think its misguided to "see the carbon as the enemy". By the way I live in Slovakia and I was baffled by our previous government stubbornly keeping the dirty hornonitrianske coal mines open through public funding. Even though they are loosing money and it would be cheaper (and much much cleaner) to just pay the miners to do nothing.
- rtx 6y agoBecause carbon is a byproduct of our lifestyle. Tomorrow we will replace it with something else. Fighting carbon is a feel good intiative. Where as thousand of other pollutants are being released everyday, example microplastics. Fighting carbon could be as simple as wearing sweaters at home instead of heating it.
- djsumdog 6y agoOr not putting plastic in all our clothing.