People see a smokestack and think the burnt carbon goes up. But the smokestack is a pure marketing maneuver to not leave sharp red dots on cancer charts. Smok

People see a smokestack and think the burnt carbon goes up. But the smokestack is a pure marketing maneuver to not leave sharp red dots on cancer charts. Smokestacks are marketing, period. Intended to diffuse harm. And they do all kinds of shit so the smoke looks billowy and doesn't plop down on the land right away, in keeping with it's marketing-oriented nature. On TV smokestacks always have very billowy vertical plumes, same shots of the same smokestacks. In real life, especially at night in Puchuncaví in the 90s, smoke plops, and then it's clear the coal plant is plain shitting on the land, which is why they do it at night because seeing it kills the marketing effect. Can't let people see smoke plop, like pouring down at a downward diagonal from the smokestack, then it's not a plume, more like a bomb if it's coming at you in a straight line at a high angle of attack. You gotta lob so it's invisible and spread out it if you don't want it coming right back at you, which it will if you shoot it. Color matters too, white smoke looks so harmless, that's why TV smokestacks emit white smoke, whereas nuclear power plant steam is black, it's accurate in reverse. People don't like getting shit on in a straight line. You gotta tell people it's dust and not soot, lob don't shoot. It used to be in eg Pittsburgh or Manchester the whole city was covered in soot and people were obsessed with sweeping, twice a day was the norm, to pretend they had servants, or were lucky (eg the wind favored them or just blessed), the two principal forms of prestige. Plus you had to sweep because soot is so gross, everything turning the color of a drunkard's shit, it's incredibly ugly, I saw it in Santiago's downtown growing up, the most polluted city of its time. Allegedly Mexico City was worse on a global scale but in the Southern Hemisphere Santiago was by far the worst. Worst in South America. You know I divine worst in the world for real. Fuck the statistics, the polluters fuck with the numbers, so fuck their numbers. In fact the government to this day by law--a shit-eating Pinochet law I may add--has to call polluters ahead of inspections. There's no inspections. They just invent numbers to look good. Smokestack as marketing again. Plus it served as chemical oppression for political purposes. But in all three cities, Industrial Manchester, Industrial Pittsburgh, and Dystopian Santiago, a curious accusation from Mother Nature itself. While under pollution, the color of moths went from white--like dust--to black--like soot.