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Why are you going to all that effort? "Poor air quality" isn't going to kill you. You are going to die of heart failure, or in a road accident. Way way way be

Why are you going to all that effort? "Poor air quality" isn't going to kill you. You are going to die of heart failure, or in a road accident. Way way way behind that you're going to die of cancer, and about twice as far behind that are a bunch of other non-preventable diseases. Stop buying toys and fix the big problem first.

5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
Others just keep downvoting this comment, I'll offer a counterpoint instead. I live in a city with air pollution levels that are considered extreme by Western standards (which I've checked and compared multiple times). Frequent SO₂ spikes up to 10 milligrams/m³ (and sometimes even more); NO₂ at 150-200 µg/m³ or higher; yearly PM2.5 averages of 200+ µg/m³, and so on. Respiratory illness rates are 4× compared to national average. Life expectancy is lower by about 5-8 years. If you look at this page, in most the world CVD beats cancers by about 2:1. Over here the ratio is much closer to 1:1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat... Everyone knows that air pollution is to blame, including the government, but they have shinier things to spend money on.
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  And you are still going to be killed in traffic way way way before air pollution gets you.
  - flangola7 4y ago
    That's not what those cancer rates suggest. Either way, I'm not sure what the relevance of motor vehicle deaths is, just because I might die in a car accident doesn't mean I don't exercise and eat heathy to avoid having a heart attack.
  - 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
    Well, let's hope so, because currently I am at full speed towards developing COPD (despite never having smoked) and personally know way more cancer victims than victims of traffic accidents.
xboxnolifes 4y ago
Not every problem in life is death. Poor health for a lifetime is worse than dying a bit early anyway.

5e92cb50239222b 4y ago

Others just keep downvoting this comment, I'll offer a counterpoint instead. I live in a city with air pollution levels that are considered extreme by Western standards (which I've checked and compared multiple times). Frequent SO₂ spikes up to 10 milligrams/m³ (and sometimes even more); NO₂ at 150-200 µg/m³ or higher; yearly PM2.5 averages of 200+ µg/m³, and so on. Respiratory illness rates are 4× compared to national average. Life expectancy is lower by about 5-8 years. If you look at this page, in most the world CVD beats cancers by about 2:1. Over here the ratio is much closer to 1:1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat... Everyone knows that air pollution is to blame, including the government, but they have shinier things to spend money on.

Gordonjcp 4y ago
And you are still going to be killed in traffic way way way before air pollution gets you.
- flangola7 4y ago
  That's not what those cancer rates suggest. Either way, I'm not sure what the relevance of motor vehicle deaths is, just because I might die in a car accident doesn't mean I don't exercise and eat heathy to avoid having a heart attack.
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
  Well, let's hope so, because currently I am at full speed towards developing COPD (despite never having smoked) and personally know way more cancer victims than victims of traffic accidents.

xboxnolifes 4y ago

Not every problem in life is death. Poor health for a lifetime is worse than dying a bit early anyway.