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I understood that rural air is significantly worse than urban due to all the pesticides.
by jraby3 3y ago
I understood that rural air is significantly worse than urban due to all the pesticides.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoWorse than urban air with auto pollution? I'd want to see a source for that...
- boesboes 3y agoYeah, ppl on the ring road of Amsterdam live 10 years shorter afaik, for instance
- dgut 3y agoSource? As a counter anecdote: Madrid, where most people live near traffic, has the highest life expectancy in the EU at 85.4 years.
- boesboes 3y agoI had to look it up, i was indeed mistaken. It's 79 days on average. The road is called the A10, so I guess I mixed that up :) Source, in dutch: https://www.hln.be/milieu/omwonenden-a10-snelweg-leven-79-dagen-korter-door-snelheidsverhoging~ab076ce0/ https://www.hln.be/milieu/omwonenden-a10-snelweg-leven-79-da...
- egman_ekki 3y agomaybe there are other factors at play here; who knows how long would they live if they didn't live near traffic.
- mapmap 3y agoWhat are they doing differently to get this average?
- Scoundreller 3y agoPoor people live next to highways? Or when we build the highway, we don’t raze the homes of the elite/wealthy/well-connected to do it, we do it in “bad neighbourhoods” Or indirect effects: factories move/build next to the new highway (ease of moving materials+density of employees+ease of commuting because of the highway), contaminating the neighbourhood.
- qwerasdf5 3y agoMany rural areas do not have farming.
- jskrablin 3y agoI live in a rural area and air here is significantly better than smog filled and ozone enriched air in the city I used to live in. Not to mention the lack of winter fog that can linger around for weeks at times. And that's excluding the light and noise pollution that are inevitable in urban areas. Yeah, living in a rural area is pure hell.
- thephyber 3y agoWhat do you believe Ozone is?!?
- callalex 3y agoDeeply toxic to human lungs.
- thephyber 3y agoToday I learned that ozone is typically found in the stratosphere (which I knew) but also at ground level due to chemical reactions.
- mrguyorama 3y agoAnd if you own an air purifier, likely in your room!
- jandrewrogers 3y agoA fairly toxic allotrope of oxygen?