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Air pollution has already been linked to a number of ailments like heart disease, cancer, asthma, dementia/Alzheimer's, it's certainly not the only cause but it
by fiftyfifty 6y ago
Air pollution has already been linked to a number of ailments like heart disease, cancer, asthma, dementia/Alzheimer's, it's certainly not the only cause but it's contribution is significant. Health care costs are something that are rarely discussed when we talk about the costs of fossil fuels but they are significant and costly in both lives and dollars.
- pmiller2 6y agoThe polluters aren't the ones paying the increased medical costs. That's the problem.
- DataWorker 6y agoI’d argue that we are the polluters and we are the people who pay the medical costs. It’s up to us. And lobbying for more regulation is mostly cope; feels good but at most achieves maybe second order effects. The frog boil continues.